3 February—If anyone needs to be reminded, the two things Donald Trump is full of are himself and shit. Some censorious seditionists would say that’s much of a muchness. And even people who voted for him in the recent election—which, contrary to what he and his lackeys claim, certainly wasn’t anything close to a Trump landslide, given his piddling one-and-a-half-percent popular-vote margin over Kamala Harris—are beginning to experience voter’s remorse because they finally admit (or at least realize when nobody’s looking) that the candidate they voted for was, is, and ever will be no more than a grifting, self-serving autocrat whose every other word was, is, and ever will be a lie.

In Trump’s defense, it must be said that it’s not impossible he may not realize that he habitually speaks with a forked tongue. Because besides being a textbook narcissist he’s a delusional ignoramus and may actually believe some of the crap he excretes.

Moving on, then, how many people know that Adolf Hitler was a very wealthy man who owned valuable real estate. Thanks in large part to his poorly written and edited best-seller “Mein Kampf,” admission fees to his diligently rehearsed histrionic rants that invariably packed the venues, unrelenting theft from Jews and Nazis alike (well, not quite alike), and evading taxes, Hitler’s personal wealth is estimated to have been something like five billion 2025 dollars. No comparison intended, of course, but Donald Trump’s personal wealth is currently estimated to be a billion or so more.

In 1934, a year after Hitler deftly weaseled himself into the office of Reichskanzler, the Munich tax office notified him that he owed the government the equivalent of over three million 2025 dollars in back taxes and fines for failing to declare his income and file tax returns. So he abused his authority to make himself tax exempt.

Considering the virtually unlimited power and immunity the Supreme Court gave Trump last year, he too could declare himself tax exempt. And get way with anything else that suited his fancy. An upstanding, law-abiding guy like Trump would ever consider anything like that, to be sure. But laws in dictatorships are what the dictators say they are. One of the perks of being a dictator.

Now consider Elon Musk and his relationship with Donald Trump. Had Musk been conniving in Nazi Germany, would he have been Hitler’s Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, or Albert Speer? Musk is clever and innovative without a doubt. But he’s narcissistic, autocratic, and downright evil. And he may well prove to be more dangerous to America and the world than Trump. So would Musk have been a Himmler-Speer hybrid?