Donald Trump: Mein Kampf, My New Order, or Both?

Vanity Fair

Published September 1st, 1990. What does this article reveal about Donald John Trump, who studied for two years under the Jesuits at Fordham College at Rose Hill before transferring to Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania?

Donald Trump appears to take aspects of his German background seriously. John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, “Heil Hitler,” possibly as a family joke.

Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.

Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”

“I don’t remember,” I said.

“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)

Later, Trump returned to this subject. “If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.”

Is Ivana trying to convince her friends and lawyer that Trump is a crypto-Nazi? Trump is no reader or history buff. Perhaps his possession of Hitler’s speeches merely indicates an interest in Hitler’s genius at propaganda. The Führer often described his defeats at Stalingrad and in North Africa as great victories. Trump continues to endow his diminishing world with significance as well. “There’s nobody that has the cash flow that I have,” he told The Wall Street Journal long after he knew better. “I want to be king of cash.” ... (1)

Trump at Fordham 

Donald Trump's time at Fordham, according to the The Observer, would have included studies in Islam, Socrates, Aristotle and logic, according to John T. Carey, FCRH ’68, in The Chronicle of Higher Education. (2) [bold text added for emphasis]

Mein Kampf Ghost-Written by Jesuit Bernhard Stempfle

Does an ordained Jesuit, or member of the Society of Jesus, act out of his own free will? Or does he obey a superior—the Jesuit Superior General—with complete and blind obedience? Does a Jesuit author speak his own mind, or speak on behalf of his Superior—a type of sophistic duplicity to conceal the true authorship of a text?

... I do further promise and declare, that notwithstanding I am dispensed with, to assume my religion heretical, for the propaganda of the Mother Church's interest, to keep secret and private all her agents' counsels from time to time, as they may entrust me and not to divulge, directly or indirectly, by word, writing or circumstance whatever; but to execute all that shall be proposed, given in charge or discovered unto me, by you, my ghostly father, or any of this sacred covenant. I do further promise and declare, that I will have no opinion or will of my own, or any mental reservation whatever, even as a corpse or cadaver (perinde ac cadaver), but will unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my superiors in the Militia of the Pope and of Jesus Christ. ... (3) [bold text added for emphasis] F. Tupper Saussy's Rulers of Evil: Useful Knowledge about Governing Bodies is a marvellous and profoundly insightful text that must be read along side the Jesuit Extreme Oath of Obedience/Induction. In print, [26th Jesuit Superior General Vladimir] Ledochowski's pan-German manifesto took the form of Hitler's autobiographical Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"), ghost-written by Jesuit Father Staempfle and placed beside the Bible on the altars of German churches.* F. Tupper Saussy, Rulers of Evil, p71 My Struggle Donald Trump edition of Hitlers original book Mein Kampf: Make America Great Again  The goal of writing a new version of “Mein Kampf” from Trump’s perspective was to increase awareness of the similarities of the ideas that both Trump and Hitler espoused. It is a different time (1930s vs. today), a different country (Germany vs. the United States), and a different enemy (Jews vs. Muslims), but the concepts are the same. Trump has already given us a glimpse of the dangers his administration could pose to the United States and the world through his speeches and tweets. (4) The author, Oliver Bienkowski, as per this hyperlinked Jerusalem Post article, has German with Polish roots and a masonic background.  Trump Trashes Mein Kampf Gift WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Furious over a very public breakup with his former adviser Steve Bannon, Donald Trump on Wednesday angrily threw a copy of “Mein Kampf” that Bannon had inscribed to him in the trash. The book, which Bannon had given to Trump as a token of his love and friendship during the 2016 campaign, had been among Trump’s most prized possessions, aides said. (5) Steve Bannon is described by one associate as “the most well-read person in Washington,” is known for recommending books to colleagues and friends, according to multiple people who have worked alongside him. He is a voracious reader who devours works of history and political theory “in like an hour,” said a former associate whom Bannon urged to read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. “He’s like the Rain Man of nationalism.” (6) F. Tupper Saussy's shared his judgement on Art of War: The reputed author of this work is a quasi-historical Chinese general believed to have lived in the sixth century BC named Sun-tzu. Sun-tzu was unknown to western languages until Joseph-Marie Amiot, astronomer to the Emperor of China, brought forth a French edition of the Thirteen Articles in 1772. Amiot was a Jesuit priest under obedience to [Jesuit Superior] General [Lorenzo] Ricci. I base my inference that Ricci is the author of Amiot's Sun-tzu on a remark from today's premiere Jesuit spokesman, Malachi Martin, retired professor at the Pontifical Institute in Rome, to the effect that a book written by a Jesuit, due to the obedience factor, can be presumed "in essence" to be the work of his Superior General.** Amiot's Sun-tzu, then, can be presumed to have been "written" by Lorenzo Ricci. F. Tupper Saussy, Rulers of Evil: Useful Knowledge of Governing Bodies, p 86-87 [bold text added for emphasis] Unexpurgated + Sequel "Anyone who reads and understands MEIN KAMPF thoroughly has the complete key to Hitler's mind and Hitler's policy." ~ Dorothy Thompson, as seen on Mein Kampf book in image below       Certainly not exhaustive, but gives points to consider. Thank you for reading.  *Tupper Saussy cites Peter de Rosa's Vicars of Christ, p 138

**Tupper Saussy cites Malachi Martin, SJ, The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church, 1987, p 490. Malachi Martin died on July 27th, 1999, as a result of a "fall" down stairs.(7) Jesuit Order founder, Ignatius Loyola, has a beatification date of July 27th, 1609.

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