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This is what an ignoramus sounds like

Former president Donald Trump has proved time and again that he is no student of history, despite citing the past with the regularity of a thunderstorm on a summer afternoon.

The latest example comes from the New Yorker, which has published an excerpt from Peter Baker and Susan Glasser’s upcoming book, “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,” focused on Trump’s troubles with the military men in his administration whom he once referred to as “my generals.”

At one point, according to the book, he complained to his chief of staff, John F. Kelly, a former Marine general, asking why he and others couldn’t be “totally loyal” to him, like the “German generals in World War II.”

“You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly allegedly responded.

Of course Trump did not know that Hitler’s generals tried to assassinate him three times. Trump has never read a book in his life.