“The Germans are bad, very bad. Look at the millions of cars that they’re selling in the USA. Horrible. We’re gonna stop that.”
Where does that kind of thinking come from? It is not rational in the least, modern Germany is built on the reflected image of the United States after all.
Consider that Trumps family came from Germany….he is a German-American.
Friedrich Trump left Germany in 1885 at age of 16 to come to America, he went to California and followed the Gold rush to Alaska building hotel/brothel/bars for the gold seekers. He became rich on whisky and prostitutes. He also avoided the German draft. When he tried to become a German citizen again in 1905 with his new German wife and child, and American wealth, he was refused, because he had avoided that draft 20 years earlier. He was ordered to leave and to never return. Never to Return!
They moved to New York and worked in real estate, the slimy world of low rent real estate. That German son, Fred, specialized in avoiding laws he didn’t want to follow, would not rent to blacks, and went to KKK rallies.
The grandson, Donald grew up in that world, bitter, privileged, learning how to get the better of the other guy, hating the old world, and the new one they were forced to live in.
Thats the source of his ideas about the world, its all of a piece, its in his genes...that answers all the questions.