"It's worth remembering that Hitler was actually an incompetent, lazy egomaniac and his government was an absolute clown show. In fact, this may even have helped his rise to power, as he was consistently underestimated by the German elite. Before he became chancellor, many of his opponents had dismissed him as a joke for his crude speeches and tacky rallies. Even after elections had made the Nazis the largest party in the Reichstag, people still kept thinking that Hitler was an easy mark, a blustering idiot who could easily be controlled by smart people. Why did the elites of Germany so consistently underestimate Hitler? Possibly because they weren't actually wrong in their assessment of his competency-they just failed to realise that this wasn't enough to stand in the way of his ambition. As it would turn out, Hitler was really bad at running a government. As his own press chief Otto Dietrich later wrote in his memoir The Hitler I Knew, "In the twelve years of his rule in Germany Hitler produced the biggest confusion in government that has ever existed in a civilized state." His government was constantly in chaos, with officials having no idea what he wanted them to do, and nobody was entirely clear who was actually in charge of what. He procrastinated wildly when asked to make difficult decisions, and would often end up relying on gut feeling, leaving even close allies in the dark about his plans. His "unreliability had those who worked with him pulling out their hair," as his confidant Ernst Hanfstaengl later wrote in his memoir Zwischen Weißem und Braunem Haus. This meant that rather than carrying out the duties of state, they spent most of their time in-fighting and back-stabbing each other in an attempt to either win his approval or avoid his attention altogether, depending on what mood he was in that day. There's a bit of an argument among historians about whether this was a deliberate ploy on Hitler's part to get his own way, or whether he was just really, really bad at being in charge of stuff. Dietrich himself came down on the side of it being a cunning tactic to sow division and chaos-and it's undeniable that he was very effective at that. But when you look at Hitler's personal habits, it's hard to shake the feeling that it was just a natural result of putting a workshy narcissist in charge of a country. Hitler was incredibly lazy. According to his aide Fritz Wiedemann, even when he was in Berlin he wouldn't get out of bed until after 11 a.m., and wouldn't do much before lunch other than read what the newspapers had to say about him, the press cuttings being dutifully delivered to him by Dietrich. He was obsessed with the media and celebrity, and often seems to have viewed himself through that lens. He once described himself as "the greatest actor in Europe," and wrote to a friend, "I believe my life is the greatest novel in world history." In many of his personal habits he came across as strange or even childish-he would have regular naps during the day, he would bite his fingernails at the dinner table, and he had a remarkably sweet tooth that led him to eat "prodigious amounts of cake" and "put so many lumps of sugar in his cup that there was hardly any room for the tea." He was deeply insecure about his own lack of knowledge, preferring to either ignore information that contradicted his preconceptions, or to lash out at the expertise of others. He hated being laughed at, but enjoyed it when other people were the butt of the joke (he would perform mocking impressions of people he disliked). But he also craved the approval of those he disdained, and his mood would quickly improve if a newspaper wrote something complimentary about him. Little of this was especially secret or unknown at the time. It's why so many people failed to take Hitler seriously until it was too late, dismissing him as merely a "half-mad rascal" or a "man with a beery vocal organ." In a sense, they weren't wrong. In another, much more important sense, they were as wrong as it's possible to get. Hitler's personal failings didn't stop him having an uncanny instinct for political rhetoric that would gain mass appeal, and it turns out you don't actually need to have a particularly competent or functional government to do terrible things. We tend to assume that when something awful happens there must have been some great controlling intelligence behind it. It's understandable: how could things have gone so wrong, we think, if there wasn't an evil genius pulling the strings? The downside of this is that we tend to assume that if we can't immediately spot an evil genius, then we can all chill out a bit because everything will be fine. But history suggests that's a mistake, and it's one that we make over and over again. Many of the worst man-made events that ever occurred were not the product of evil geniuses. Instead they were the product of a parade of idiots and lunatics, incoherently flailing their way through events, helped along the way by overconfident people who thought they could control them." From HUMANS: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up by Tom Phillips
😮 very insightful and interesting post. And the similarities between Trump and Hitler are quite frightening. We must learn from history. Not just blindly memorize dates and facts but seeing the connection between each mayor event and what it means for the following decades. But as I see education is the last thing politicians want to support with resources. Not just in the US, here in Canada and many parts of the EU too. As I was reading through the Canadian parties’ programs before our federal election it was sad to see how little emphasis each party put on better education. This should be as big issue as healthcare because the better we make our education (from early childhood) the better citizens and overall society we get.
Giuliani, the consigliere: "Boss... How we gonna get the President of Ukraine to investigate Biden?" Trump, the mafia boss: "I'll make him an offer he can't understand."
I'd say Trump has a talent for choosing the worst possible course of action at the worst possible time. You gotta admit, it takes some real ability to screw yourself over as badly as he does time after time.
"It was beautiful, absolutely perfect, an absolute ten." This guy is seriously nothing more than a sleazy salesman who made it big. He even describes conversations like they're a car he's trying to push onto you. If nothing else, Trump's presidency is a census on the American population to discover what exact percentage of them, when confronted with a pushy car salesman, would end up buying the car.
Unfortunately, reality tv, was what made Trump the household name in 2016. When he was edited, could do re-takes or looping... he could fool the public into thinking that he wasn't a few IQ points lower than Forrest Gump.
amanda miller Amanda let’s rethink that sentence. We could say republican cucks, idiots, trilobites, etc. Let’s not use the R slur; that’s what a republican would do.
1) Someone with the vocabulary and english grammar of a 3rd grader. 2) Someone too stupid to know how to use actual words with meaningful informative content. 3) Someone too idiotic to know how to ever talk at all without constantly damning themselves. 4) All of the Above (AKA: Him and him alone.)
Just read the 9 page declassified "whistleblower" report. The impeachment better not take months. It's beyond reason how this person may still refer to himself as POTUS. He belongs in prison, but at LEAST out of office. It makes me physically sick to witness this presidency.
I know, right?! Hopefully, they'll put in several Articles of Impeachment & let the Senators vote on each one though, because then they could add the impeachable offenses from the Mueller investigation. And, I hope they have a silent vote because then the Republicans that are too spineless to stand up to Trump's corruption & disgusting words & practices, maybe they would vote with the Constitution & morality.
The Closer Look segment makes the depressing news of the day bearable. Especially with new documents and allegations coming out every day, I just wait for the latenight shows to make sense of it, distill the absurdness of the situation and bring it with a bit of humor to make it easier to digest
I remember how granma told me I was very good in having a conversation on the phone. I was so proud! But I was also 8 years old, not a fullgrown adult who happens to be the president of the most powerful country on this planet.
Killukwik hell yes! Andrew Yang is the man. He wants to give all americans 1000$ a month and the tech sector will pay for it. How isn’t everyone on board w this.
No, they don't care. They want racial hierarchy in the US to be re-formalised in law. They don't care how they get it, who's life is ruined or even if it causes the downfall of the entire country. Evil is stupid, and ultimately self-destructive.
Brandon Funk Good one! He'll say it was a perfect 10 too. (Because he repeats things, many times, in different ways, every time he talks to the press.)
Trump has a boundless ego. It even surpasses King Louis IV, whose rein over France finally cost him his head. Mr. Trumps often self repeated references about his luxurious lifestyle, elegant women who adore him and the brilliant men with whom he is surrounded, may not cost his head (topped with that lovely pompadour), but will cost him all credibility. Even the most imbecile among us will be convinced he is not fit to even be trusted with latrine duty. Keep talking Donnie.
@@edwardwood3778 So eloquently stated. The only thing I would quibble over are the words "will lose" ... I am pretty sure has already lost all credibility.
@@maxdoubt5219 I was just going to say the same thing about the word Epsteined ... snuffed before talking. Susanne I hope you get credit when Websters adds it, in a few years.
I'm pretty sure his handlers give him some kind of downers when they need him to make a speech somewhere where he can't go off the rails like at the UN. I think that helps explain the slurred speech. At his rallies they let him snort Adderall though, business as usual.
Trump: "A perfect conversation? Well, for me, at least, it's words...perfect words, the kind of words that a stable genius would use...well, quite frankly, the BEST words. I use words in conversations that have never been used before, so...yeah...words..."
@@janverboven “Your brain is so minute , Jan, that if a hungry cannibal cracked your head open, there wouldn’t be enough to cover a small water biscuit.”
They get the benefit of cutting through the bullshit and not having to pretend there's a chance he isn't lying about something incredibly stupid like the news anchors do.
@@oracleofdelphi4533 I watch Fox for the Comedy and comedians for the facts. Kind of sad where we have gone. If you want to know about Fox and have Showtime, watch "The Loudest Voice" A series about Roger Ailes and Fox. It will blow your mind.
I love the interview with the Ukrainian President. "You need to get rid of corruption - great corruption - tremendous corruption and then you can be great- again and Ukraine can be tremendously- er - great again". I mean - it's almost word for word. The man is an embarrassment.
The poor president of Ukraine is trying to be accepted into NATO by beefing up its military. He's making a deal with the devil. T is an opportunist who feeds on vulnerability, while he appeases the military-industrial complex, aggrandizing himself using taxpayer monies.
More than embarrassment he is a danger to world peace (a danger on biblical terms given his influence and his poor behaviour). Trump will go down in history as the US president MOST IGNORANT MOST CORRUPT AND BIGGEST LYING S.O.B. IN HISTORY. I personally think Trump may just sit out 2020 election citing 'dementia' so he doesn't even sit through trial from crimes and jail time.
@Lapin074 u bet they are! That talk they had when Trump had the notes taken away n then I remote beer Trump put the scrunched up paper n quickly put it in to his mouth when so gone else came in the Oval office!!!!! It's true! I so remember!!😲
CultureClique - Thank you for not judging us by our goverment. The extremely wealthy and the big corporations have far more say in our goverment than the average American does. Most of us are good people just trying to live our best life and we do find the political spectacle to be embarrassing and disheartening.
It’s funny I am a drafted Vietnam vet and put it all on the line for this country wrong or right... and would do it again but I have no embarrassing feelings about these leaders they’ve been told about in the Bible and the confusion they are going to bring to lead us down the prim Rose path...No fear No embarrassment here I know time is getting close for his return are you ready? I am! Get Jesus...
Katrina Hansen "put it all on the line for this country wrong or right, and would do it again...". Wait you would again go to war even if you knew it was wrong? Here is an idea, maybe don't go fight on the wrong side of an unjust war in the name of some misplaced sense of patriotism. Just a thought
"The conversation I had was absolutely perfect." "It was an absolutely perfect conversation." "The perfect conversation was absolute." "The absolutely conversational perfection." "Perfect absolution of the conversation." "Believe me, folks."
He's not dumb enough to resign the presidency..... He's not dumb enough to resign the presidency..... He's not dumb enough to resign the presidency..... (Crossing my fingers)
He‘s not strong enough to fly off the Washington Monument by flapping his own arms. Or fit enough to outrun a herd of angry hipos. Or brave enough to swim with Portuguese Manowars. Or handsome enough to seduce a rattlesnake. Or skilled enough to prepare and eat his own fugu fish dish. Or smart enough to calculate a landing approach on private biplane.
What is with this idiot always saying that 'you know it too' when blatantly lying, NO WE DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU IDIOT, why don't any reporters ever actually clap back and cut him off mid lie 'NO Mr 'president', we DON'T know anything of the sort!' Trump isn't just a pathological liar, he's a TERRIBLE one too!
@@jammin4284 2nd source would be Stephen Colbert, 3rd source would be Jimmy Kimmel, 4th would be Samantha Bee, 5th would be Trevor Noah. Shall I continue?
@@flabbybum9562 the thought (in trumps words, oh, and in his voice ) The thought of tossbag Trumps impeachment, would be a beautiful thing yes a real beautiful thing, it would be. Trust me! Everybody knows.
@@willschultz5452 They gave him a special, personalised kind of IQ test - can you pass through a revolving door without getting stuck? He failed. So they gave him an easier one - can you pass through a normal door without getting stuck? He failed that too, and somehow knocked himself unconscious in the process. Finally they gave up and just asked him to count up to ten. He did it in the wrong order, and he used letters instead of numbers, and it took him eight hours... but they were so exhausted by that point they just handed him 150 IQ points and called it a day.
@@willschultz5452 I saw 130 but if it is i think it is all dedicated to con and crime. I can't imagine 150, ten away from Einstein? No way. Any IQ he has has been damaged by severe personality disorders.
Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's Time For A Closer Look!!!!!!!! 😀😀😀😀😀😄😄😄😄😄. Love Seth and these writers!!! Always making us laugh and keeping us sane!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️😀😀😀😀
Yomiko: I think you have just summed up the problem. He thinks he is CEO of America and can bark out orders and everyone does what he says. But the USA has laws and protocol to be followed ... he doesn't even care that they exist.
@@wallydog2282 dude! Secret service is nothing to play with. it's against the law to threaten the dotard president of the United States. He's an idiot but don't go to jail over some bullshit
@@sallyhines7527 But they're perfect. Beautiful. Beautiful documents. Y'know, I think Trump is actually really socially progressive. He's openly pansexual. He's attracted to absolutely *anything...* that has his name on it.
I swear, some people are just without reason, there are people all over the internet trying to defend Trump EVEN NOW!! Do these people not understand how awful Trump is!? What am I saying, of course they don't; that's why their blindly and stupidly supporting him!
Dumb ass duck dynasty idiots, thats who supports trump. His followers don't care how corrupt he is as long as #45 entertains them with his mental state of mind which unfortunately is the same as his base ..
Team Fear laws were most definitely broken. The only reason trump hasn't been brought up on multiple felony charges is because it is against protocol to charge a sitting president
The house votes to impeach (which is really just like pressing charges) and then the Senate tries and votes to convict or not. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presides over the trial. But a funny host would kind of be in keeping with the reality tv star president.
Apparently not but he'll try remember it's on audio anything you say can and will be used against you. He's so stupid he doesn't know that's blatantly a threat let him keep digging hi own grave total jackass
Thank you Seth Meyers! I don't see you as just a brilliant and hilarious late night host ,but also as a true patriot and activist fighting the good fight against corruption in America especially this deplorable Trump administration! Thank you! Don't let up!
No one even asked for this transcript. All that was expected was for the whistleblower complaint to be handed over to Congress, as required by law. He's so clueless as to what he's done wrong that he thinks this transcript proves he did nothing wrong at all. What can you expect from a man born with a silver spoon in his mouth, a golden parachute strapped to his back, and an army of yes men at his back and call? This guy knows nothing about the plight of the common man. He doesn't know what it is to struggle- to suffer- to go without. He has no experience whatsoever with anything which builds character.
I never forgot how he said he understood working up from the bottom because he got a $1 million grant from his father. None of us got $1 million grants. If I had I'd be living in a high rise, not an apartment. I wouldn't be working my current job, I'd be an investor on Wall St.
Chris Martindale You're aware, I hope, that his inheritance was around $400 MM, right? And if I recall correctly, it came after he'd fucked up in Atlantic City* in about every way possible... I just enjoy repeating that 😄 *including a crashed helo that wiped out his sr. management. Of course, he might not have _caused_ the crash, but can't we all picture him repairing a rotor with a counterfeit Chinese part?
@@chrismartindale7840 ahhh, ya beat me to it... Yeah, he says he built it from nothing, with only a million dollar loan from his dad. Like a million dollars, especially back then, is nothing...like my dad let me borrow gas money.
Yeah , it really surprised me in how willingly he was going to turn over the transcript. I thought, I have seen this "movie" before with the Meuller report, TOTALLY EXONERATING him! It was a PERFECT 10 for us Democrats. There really is a GOD!!!!!
When trump says, "It was a 10", I can only think of when a doctor asks you what pain level you have today, 0 = no pain, 10 = the worst pain imaginable. In that respect, the call was the worst pain imaginable.
@@macforme "Not the brightest button on the blazer" or maybe ''A sandwich short of a picnic''. We can go on & on 'coz he's not even ''playing with a full deck'' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is why I vote on character above parties or policies. Someone with a good character wants to do the right thing at least, even if there is debate as to what that is.
The funny thing with Trump is that he seems to be the only President who hasn't been visibly aged by the job. Obama knew his job was vitally important and stressful, he ends up leaving office with grey hair. Trump treats the Presidency like a weird golf/stand up world tour and will leave office the same color of off brand Dorito that he came in, while the rest of America seems to have been the one aged by his Presidency.
His presidency is ageing ME! I think the following industries are booming due to Trump: alcoholic beverages, stress relief pills and supplements, massage therapists, cosmetic procedures (to get rid of the frown lines), and last but not least, Cannabis edibles!
Dump is lazy and a do-nothing presidunce who watches TV and tweets all day and plays golf every weekend. Dump colors his hair yellow to cover the whites and, if you look closely, under all that orange makeup, you'll see a hagard-looking face and skin. Dump's skin looks like raw meat.
After seeing this Circus as a whistle blower I think I would have asked for asylum in some country that don’t have. Extradition treaty’s with America and wont turn him over to America...The new Snowden, ASonge... lol
We’ve been working so hard in these meetings and the press doesn’t cover it. Well, you can always tweet about it. Never see any tweets on what success is coming out of these meetings.
"Mr. Giuliani is very well respected. I mean, he was the Mayor of 9/11... you know that day, you remember, when my building became the tallest in lower Manhattan."
"I want to continue with the military aid from the United States, I'm just waiting for Europe to do their part first"... ...is *not* what president trump told Zelenskiy.
@Bubbles McGee No you don't. Look at any court case. Prosecutors, juries and judges rarely get explicit words. They rely on reasonable understanding of the context, which is more than clear in this case.
@Bubbles McGee Bubbles McGee in the same way that if a mobster says: "nice little restaurant you have, would be a shame if anything happened to it" it isn't a threat because he doesn't spell it out?
I like that Seth and his team make sure that amidst all the jokes the facts are made crystal clear about what is happening.Too often in late night shows the jokes play the major role and make it look like it's all just fun when in fact it's actually pretty serious.
