I split screened shots from Leni Riefenstahl& #39;s 1935 Nazi propaganda film, Triumph of Will, with @realDonaldTrump’s video of his return from the hospital. Not sure if this was intentional, but it& #39;s eerily similar. His media team looking to history for inspiration, perhaps?

Worth mentioning that these are a collection of shots from Triumph of the Will. Meaning, the @WhiteHouse& #39;s film is playing out in real-time. But the shots on the right are scattered throughout the first ten minutes of the two-hour-long propoganda film.

Simply b/c his team may be trying to replicate similar visual imagery, does not necessarily mean Trump, the president, should be compared to such figures—necessarily. There& #39;s a great @latimes article about this. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/newsletter/2020-07-25/opinion-newsletter-trump-portland-dictator-opinion">https://www.latimes.com/opinion/n...

On one hand, "we have no idea where we are in the arc of his presidency." On the other hand, however, "Trump is no Hitler of 1944, but he does bear some unnerving similarities to the Hitler and the Mussolini of 1934." A fascinating read by @PaulMThornton.