As Trumpās manic episodes become more bizarre and frequent in the run up to the election, heās becoming less inhibited in expressing his hatred for the military and minorities. From the latest reporting in The Atlantic:
Trump: āI Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Hadā
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/
In an Oval Office meeting on December 4, 2020, officials gathered to discuss a separate national-security issue. Toward the end of the discussion, Trump asked for an update on the McCarthy investigation. Christopher Miller, the acting secretary of defense (Trump had fired his predecessor, Mark Esper, three weeks earlier, writing in a tweet, āMark Esper has been terminatedā), was in attendance, along with Millerās chief of staff, Kash Patel. At a certain point, according to two people present at the meeting, Trump asked, āDid they bill us for the funeral? What did it cost?ā
According to attendees, and to contemporaneous notes of the meeting taken by a participant, an aide answered: Yes, we received a bill; the funeral cost $60,000.
Trump became angry. āIt doesnāt cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!ā He turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order: āDonāt pay it!ā Later that day, he was still agitated. āCan you believe it?ā he said, according to a witness. āFucking people, trying to rip me off.ā