@petergleick Do we REALLY have to point out the difference?
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick Trump's banner is from his booking photo.
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick 2 of these are older than the other.
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick I can’t believe this has been up for 5 hours and no one has commented that Trump’s is the smallest. I guess that fedi not showing all replies thing has struck again
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick were Hitler and Mussolini also half-witted puppets?
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
OMG so glad you asked!
The banners of Mussolini at Fascist headquarters and Hitler at Danzig were tools of totalitarian regimes enforcing one-party rule, state terror, and the cult of the leader as infallible savior. Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany had no free elections after 1929 and 1933, respectively; opposition was crushed by secret police, death squads, and total media control. Their imagery signaled the end of pluralism, the merger of state and party....
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
...and the worship of the Duce or Führer as embodiments of the nation's will.
Trump's banner at the Justice Department, hung in February 2026 under his second term, operates in a different framework: America's constitutional republic, with separation of powers, federalism, and ongoing elections. It's a bold assertion of executive authority over a bureaucracy accused of weaponization against him—think the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane or the DOJ's pursuit of January 6 cases that....
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
... targeted supporters while ignoring leftist violence. The slogan "make America safe again" ties to policies like mass deportations and cracking down on urban crime, not establishing a Gestapo. No concentration camps, no Enabling Act ending democracy, no oath sworn to Trump personally by all officials.
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick Well, in this one case, Mussolini's portrait is on his party's headquarters, not the (officially nonpartisan) Ministry of Justice.
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick ah yes good point
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick same.
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick The modern picture is in colors.
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick one of these is the least original of the three, done with full knowledge of the career/life arc of the other two, yet was still done un-ironically.
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
@petergleick There is no difference.
But this is not a feature of Trump, Mussolini or Hitler as much as fascism is a feature of people!
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@petergleick
The primary difference between someone like Trump vs someone like Hitler or Mussolini is that Hitler and Mussolini actually had some redeeming qualities. Like the fact that Hitler was a war hero in WWI whereas Trump dodged the draft. Or the fact that Hitler was a talented painter and Mussolini was a talented violinist, whereas the only thing Trump is good at is conning people.@Phracker2Art @petergleick Hitler was a talented painter? Fact so far: The Republicans did not start a ww - yet.
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
Trumps Banner is the most beautifull, grestest, biggest banner in historie.
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
RE https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/116100011554390385
Der Slogan
"MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN"
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@petergleick one of these is the least original of the three, done with full knowledge of the career/life arc of the other two, yet was still done un-ironically.
Well, Mussolini did that ever-present SI! –thing, and Hitler had his catchy party logo, so you could arguably say they both had their own thing.
Meanwhile, Trump's catch-frase is a temu-version of Thatcher's, as "make Britain great again" at least had a hook.
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Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.What's the difference?
There are many good answers, but seriously I think the difference is that Hitler and Mussolini did sets (you can see Si! and swastika several times in the picture), while Trump only had the one banner.
Lazy, poor, no Feng Shui. Etc.
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fascist frowns
