Comparison of Hitler's Worst Henchmen to Trump's Worst
Trump's henchmen and henchwomen are emulating Hitler's and the Nazi elites' strategies and tactics to transform America into a fascist dictatorship.
Since its inauguration on January 20, 2025, the Trump 2.0 administration’s political, economic, legal, and military decisions and subsequent actions show obvious similarities to the strategy and tactics the Nazis used to solidify their control of the German government after the 1933 German parliamentary elections:
Issuing illegal executive orders to eliminate or restructure government agencies without prior Congressional approval.
Threatening to annex neighboring lands owned by other nations (e.g., Greenland).
Withholding previously approved research grants to universities whose students engage in protests for which Trump disagrees.
Defunding government agencies without Congressional approval.
Transforming ICE into a pseudo-military unit similar to Hitler’s Gestapo and SS, which illegally persecutes, assaults, murders, arrests, and detains citizens and non-citizens without due process as guaranteed by the Constitution.
Illegally deploying the U.S. National Guard and active duty American soldiers to Democratic Party-controlled cities under false claims of insurrection.
Unleashing the U.S. military to attack adversaries unable to defend themselves against the American Military (e.g., Iranian nuclear facilities and Venezuelan boats suspected of exporting illegal narcotics to the United States).
Censoring public and corporate media organizations’ content distribution by threatening legal action, issuing regulatory controls, and withholding Congressionally approved funding.
Threatening lawsuits, then suing law firms representing political rivals.
Threatening political rivals with lawsuits.
Demonizing vulnerable minorities and immigrants.
Intimidating economic trading partners with deliberately oppressive, unfair, or politically motivated tariffs.
These tactics are intended to deflect the American public’s attention from Trump 2.0’s strategic objective: conversion of the United States government from a “flawed” democratic republic to a fascist dictatorship similar to Nazi Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, or Kim Jong Un’s North Korea.
Hitler’s Inner Circle
The worst members of Hitler’s inner circle, from the late 1920s until Hitler’s suicide in May of 1945, were:
Hermann Göring - de facto Minister of Economics, Governor of Prussia, Commander of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe), creator and commander of the Gestapo
Joseph Goebbels - Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
Heinrich Himmler - Commander of the SS, architect of the “Final Solution” and “the Holocaust,” designed to imprison, exploit, and exterminate Jews, Slavs, and other ethnic minorities residing in Nazi-controlled Europe.
Reinhard Heydrich - Commander of the SD (SS intelligence arm), principal executor of the “Final Solution” and “the Holocaust”
Adolph Eichmann - Subordinate to Heydrich in the SS. Managed the logistics operations involved in the mass deportation of millions of Jews to Nazi ghettos and Nazi extermination camps across German-occupied Europe
These are the five men most responsible for overseeing the Nazi party apparatus and war machine. Except for Reinhard Heydrich, each of these men was convicted during the Nuremberg trials, sentenced to death, and either executed or committed suicide. Reinhard Heydrich had been assassinated in 1942.
Netflix hosts a ten-episode documentary presenting and discussing the roles Hitler’s “henchmen”1 played in the rise and fall of the Nazi Third Reich. This documentary series is also available on YouTube.2
Trump 2.0’s Inner Circle
Just like Hitler, Trump has an “inner” circle of devious sycophants:
J. D. Vance - Vice President of the United States
Stephen Miller - Deputy Chief of Staff
Russell Vougt - Director, Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Pamela Bondi - Attorney General of the United States
Peter Hegseth - Secretary of Defense
Karoline Leavitt - White House Press Secretary
Kristi Noem - Secretary of Homeland Security
Tom Homan - Director, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Kash Patel - Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - Secretary of Health and Human Services
As you review the Wikipedia biographical information linked to each member of Trump 2.0’s “inner circle”, it is clear that many lack the necessary and required credentials, education, and experience to perform the duties of the offices they hold. Their principal common denominator qualification for their powerful positions is their fawning loyalty to Donald J Trump.
Some are members of the wealthy, “dark money” American oligarchy. Some are aligned with Christian Nationalists. Some have experience in local, state, and/or federal government roles, although not directly related to their current position.
I suspect that many others, like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, are serving in clandestine roles, silently undermining the American political system.
Comparing Trump’s and Hitler’s Henchmen
Joseph Goebbels controlled the flow of public information for the Nazis.
J. D. Vance, Stephen Miller, Susie Wiles, Katherine Leavitt, Russell Vought, Scott Bessent, Robert F. Kennedy, and Pam Bondi are colluding to control the content and the flow of information to the public for Trump.
What Himmler, Heydrich, Eichmann, the SS, and the Gestapo did to the Jews for the Nazis, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Tom Homan, and ICE are colluding to do to American immigrants for Trump.
What Hermann Göring did for the Nazi war machine, Pete Hegseth tries to do for Trump.
Consequences and Accountability
With the Allies’ victory in World War II came accountability for Hitler and his “inner” circle of enablers. They were tried, convicted, and died by execution or suicide.
Hitler’s Circle of Evil. Netflix, 2017. https://www.netflix.com/title/80138915.
Hitler’s Circle of Evil (Netflix) | Free. Holocaust Studies, 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKc_fXpnmo0Jm6BefYNUiNs3gOTDDPrSD.