Trump Regime Indoctrinating Us with Nazi Propaganda

The Trump administration has entered the propaganda phase that characterizes fascist governments. Government websites and advertisements are using phrasing derived from past fascist movements and jingoist nationalism.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recruitment ads beckon us to “JOIN ICE TODAY” with the “Uncle Sam wants you” image dating from World War I and “DEFEND THE HOMELAND”. Homeland is a creepy “blood and soil” term that was commonplace in Nazi Germany and has now sunk in here since Bush created the Department of Homeland Security in 2002 whereas we formerly simply said “America”.

The Labor Department tells us “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage — Remember who you are, American”. The phrasing is redolent of the Nazi slogan “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer’ — One People, One State, One Leader – used on propaganda posters in Germany at the time.

At Homeland Security it’s “PROTECT THE HOMELAND. DEFEND THE CULTURE.”

The White House posted a controversial graphic this week giving Greenland
Which way Greenland man?


two options: US or Russian-Chinese influence. The post was captioned on X with “Which way Greenland man?” which is a not so subtle reference to a notorious white supremacist book defending Hitler which is titled, “Which Way Western Man”.

A few days ago, Homeland Security (DHS) posted an ad promoting sign-ups for ICE with the tag line "We’ll have our home again". That is a white supremacist anthem favored by the Proud Boys and sung by a male chorus in strident voice. The post had been viewed by when we checked 6.9 million times.

At a press conference in New York City that same day, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stood behind a podium with the legend “ONE OF OURS, ALL OF YOURS”.
This is said to be a gruesome Nazi slogan as some historians aver, although with some uncertainty. But it certainly aligns with Nazi policy which said if one Nazi soldier or official is killed, everyone in your town will be killed. In the 1942 massacre in Lidice, now in the Czech Republic, the Nazis murdered every male resident of the village in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, a high-ranking official of the Schutzstaffel (SS), the paramilitary corps commonly known as the SS. What does that tell you about the inclinations of Ms. Noem choosing to stand behind that threat?

We are witnessing acts of fascism performed daily:

as Noem’s masked troops, refusing to be identified, bludgeon the citizens of Minneapolis.

a Washington Post reporter’s home invaded by the FBI taking her Post-issued and personal computer, her phone, and Garmin GPS-enabled watch.

a third and fourth Congress member “investigated” for reminding the military that they must not obey an illegal order.

the chairman of the Federal Reserve investigated.

the Justice Department announcing it will take no action in the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good.

What all above says is that fascism is now the policy of the U.S. government. The regime has taken lessons from Mussolini and Hitler that propaganda is a crucial instrument for controlling the public and maintaining power. With the slogans above, the government is telling us how we had better start thinking, that we'd best heed their program of state-induced patriotism and understand that any objections to the state’s actions are per force unpatriotic.

The Renee Good killing offers an example. No less than the president immediately and improperly rendered his false account (“the woman violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer") as did the vice president (“she accelerated in a way where she ran into the guy“), and Noem who spewed only lies (and called Good’s actions “domestic terrorism“), all of which is refuted by videos taken from multiple angles that show killer Jonathan Ross clear of the vehicle. To add to the lies, DHS is claiming he suffered internal bleeding to the torso.

The Trump, Vance, and Noem pronouncements are conclusive. The government says we are to accept their official false version. Just as we predicted in our write-up of the killing last week, there will be no federal investigation. Case closed. Evidence will not be released to Minnesota for it to conduct an investigation. Instead, the DOJ intends to investigate Good and her wife.

This is how fascism works. Information is controlled. As in Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, the Trump administration‘s truth is the opposite of the truth we saw with our own eyes.

On its fifth anniversary Trump has formally released a complete inversion of the January 6, 2021, insurrection on the White House website.
Trump at the Ellipse Jan. 6, 2021.


Just as his ego cannot tolerate the proof of Russian involvement in the 2016 election, we now have an official version of that day which all must adhere to if they wish to do any business with the Trump administration.

Let's stress this. This is not propaganda floating about the Internet. This is propaganda at the White House itself. Propaganda lies enforced as the new truth of our nation. OK with you?

Right off, the website presentation recites the tired right-wing trope that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi failed to provide for defense of the Capitol. A video by her documentarian daughter as they were driving somewhere on January 6 has the former House Speaker, in the website’s words,

“acknowledging responsibility… for not having the National Guard pre-deployed, despite intelligence warnings and President Trump’s offers of troops that were ignored”.

First, there is no record of Trump’s offer. Second, the Capitol Police chief asked for the Guard but was rebuffed by Trump’s own Pentagon generals who did not like the “optics” of troops on Capitol grounds.

Of the mob that assaulted the Capitol, the website says, “The Democrats masterfully reversed reality after January 6, branding peaceful patriotic protesters as ‘insurrectionists’” who were “denied due process” by a “weaponized Biden DOJ”. None were sent straight off to El Salvador's CECOT prison, Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem style. All were convicted in the due process of court cases.

Mr. Trump, who obviously oversaw every word on the page, twists himself into a risible contradiction: If many of his disciples were, as he says, “mere trespassers or peaceful protesters treated as insurrectionists” who were only there for “exercising their First Amendment rights”, why was there any need for Pelosi to provide for the defense of the Capitol?

Some items from the web page’s timeline:

“President Trump invites patriotic Americans to Washington, DC on January 6 for a peaceful and historic protest against certifying the stolen 2020 election.”

In fact he tweeted in the early morning hours of December 19th after a tumultuous White House meeting in which declaring martial law was considered, 'Big project in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!'"

“At the Ellipse, President Trump speaks to hundreds of thousands of supporters, detailing evidence of election fraud and urging the crowd to march to the Capitol to 'peacefully and patriotically make their voices heard'. He stresses the need to fight for the country through strength and determination, explicitly calling for peaceful protest.”

It was a large crowd with the House Select Committee estimating approximately 53,000 attendees, but nothing approaching Trump's pitiable grandiosity. The first quote is correct, says our transcript, but there is no further “explicitly calling for peaceful protest”. And he used the word “fight” repeatedly, most notably inciting the crowd with, “We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore."

“Capitol Police aggressively fire tear gas, flash bangs, and rubber munitions into crowds of peaceful protesters, injuring many and deliberately escalating tensions”.

The Trump version has the Capitol Police attacking his supporters “turning a peaceful demonstration into chaos”, not the factual opposite, a curious example of Trump expecting us to distrust the miles of video footage we have watched. There is no mention that his people assaulted the police, armed with stun guns, pepper spray, baseball bats and flagpole clubs. A comprehensive review of police officer bodycam footage found roughly 1,000 instances of assault against members of law enforcement, 140 of whom were injured.

“As events unfold, President Trump repeatedly calls for peace, tweeting support for law enforcement and releasing a video telling supporters 'go home in peace…He consistently promotes non-violence despite the attack on attendees'.

This is a total lie, a disgraceful attempt to cover-up his infamous and willful dereliction of his duty as president. He ignored pleas from his inner circle, Congress members, and his family to call off the attackers. He finally asked them to go home over three hours into the battle.

“Unarmed Air Force veteran and Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt is fatally shot by Capitol Police …Three other Americans were also killed…Zero law enforcement officers lost their lives.”

Of the three, two died of heart attacks, one before the assault began, the other an organizer not seen at the event. The third died of an amphetamine overdose. “Zero law enforcement officers lost their lives” callously does not mention that USCP Officer Brian Sicknick died from two strokes eight hours after being pepper sprayed by a rioter, and four other police officers committed suicide in the days and months after the riot.

“After law enforcement clears the Capitol, Congress reconvenes late that night and certifies Joe Biden’s electoral votes — votes from battleground states marred by massive mail-in ballot fraud, hidden suitcases of ballots, exploding water pipes, voting machine irregularities, and unprecedented pandemic-era rule changes that bypassed state legislatures. 2020 is considered the greatest election theft in U.S. history, with widespread fraud deliberately ignored by courts, officials and the media.”

No fraud has ever come to light because there was none other than one or two votes here and there, often accidental. Voting machine irregularities were conspiracy nonsense: software from Hugo Chavez’s rigged Venezuela election, votes counted in Europe, etc. The courts heard 63 cases; Trump’s lawyers won only one of them. The election theft lives only in Trump’s diseased mind.

But Trump will go on insisting his is the truth, a mentally ill man obsessed with remaking the world as he wants it to be, as his narcissism demands it to be, unable to let anything go.

And for that to happen, he must be omnipotent, holding all the power over all of the government, answerable to no constitution nor the courts. That fits the definition of fascism, as defined by Mussolini himself:

“Everything within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State”

Fascism centralizes the government in the dictator, who is the state. And that's where we are.

A cult of personality is the unifying force of a fascist regime. Three government departments unfurled huge banners draped over sides of their buildings showing the enormous scowling face of Donald Trump. The dictator-style portraits are bigger facially than even those of Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin adorning the walls and buildings of their cities. Well, of course they are, only fitting for a megalomanic beyond the other two.

Trump follows the same playbook as the Italian dictator when he says “I was right about everything”. Someone has schooled Trump in everything Benito, because Mussolini said the same. His slogan was “Mussolini ha sempre ragione" — Mussolini is always right. Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in her Vanity Fair interview said Trump "operates [with] the view that there's nothing he can't do. Nothing. Zero. Nothing.” He has said so himself. In an August cabinet meeting he proclaimed, “I have the right to do anything I wanna do. I’m the President of the United States“. In an interview with The Atlantic magazine he said, “I run the country and the world”. In an interview with The New York Times a week ago he said just "one thing" can curtail his desire for global supremacy: "My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me."