Just how many Jews will Trump exterminate?

Forgive me, sir, for interrupting your caucus of “Liberals Who Say Trump Reminds Them of Hitler.” I have just a few questions.

The late Adolf Hitler is directly responsible for killing 90 million people. Do you think comparing Trump to Hitler might be just somewhat – uh –exaggerated? You’ve had almost three months since the election, including a Thanksgiving, a Christmas, eight days of Hanukkah and a New Year’s Eve to soften your feelings. But apparently you have not, so let me proceed.

How many Jews do you suspect Trump is planning to exterminate? And does that include his son-in-law? How many Slavic people, also considered racially inferior by Hitler, do you suspect Trump wants to get rid of? How many homosexuals, autistic, mentally ill and other special-needs people? How many Catholic clergy? How many children has he bled for plasma for his army’s medical units? How many countries do you think Trump intends to invade and bring into his New World Order? To your knowledge, would Trump consider it a pleasant evening watching videos of his political enemies undergoing torture and then executed, and then watching them over and over again?

There are hundreds of unflattering ways to describe those we don’t like, politically short of comparing them to Adolf Hitler. The fact that so many anti-Trump Americans feel no need to stop short of invoking Hitler shows us a significant number of our fellow Americans are “BP” – Beyond Pathetic!

One political advantage of this insane linkage of Trump to Hitler is that it splits the anti-Trump ranks. Few ordinary supporter of Hillary Clinton will go along with the comparison. However, I fear I hear the opening notes of a dreadful symphony, even here in the very early going. Among many other hot buttons Americans have long been begging to be pushed is the one that demands elected officials smile and turn the other cheek when opposing media knowingly and deliberately lying to hurt them. The media are learning that Trump doesn’t take bashing the way Washington says you’re supposed to. In bashing Trump, the media have clearly pulled the wrong sow by the ear.

On Saturday, Jan. 21, the day after the inauguration, a furious Sean Spicer, Trump’s incoming press secretary, stormed into the White House briefing room announcing that there was a matter that needed attention. A report had been published that the bust of Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office.

When Sean faced the reporters there was no hint of a meek, “Please, You All” in his manner. He stormed through a furious denial, condemned the report and the reporter as a vicious liar, and then stormed out of the room leaving the press corps shattered and shivering like English schoolboys in the 19th century, about to be flogged for cheating. This was no mere “new sheriff in town.” This was a whole new army occupying your homeland.

I enjoyed the spectacle, but I wonder where it might lead. This is a declaration of war against a media that richly deserves it. However, the media are not helpless. An old nostrum warns us never to pick fights with those who buy ink by the barrel. The question is, does that good advice also apply to presidents of the United States who can control ink by the ton?

What exactly causes so many otherwise sane reporters to see Hitler when they behold Trump? Forgive the weakness of this analysis, but it’s the best I can discern. Trump uses the phrase “America First.” There was an organization some 80 years ago, full of Nazi sympathizers that wanted to keep America out of World War II. The members called themselves “America Firsters.” I wouldn’t march a baby kitten across a rope bridge that weak, but many Americans, apparently, see that as a confession that “America First”is a confession that Trump is an ardent Nazi halfway out of the closet!

I’m personally vaccinated against the shock of people using Hitler to fortify arguments that could do with a lot less. Why use dynamite when insect powder will do? One of the thrills of this business is the people you get to meet. Do you remember Butterfly McQueen, the African-American actress who played Scarlett O’Hara’s maid in “Gone With the Wind”? She was the one who famously said, “Mizz Scarlett, I don’t know nothin’ ’bout birthing babies!”

Butterfly and I became good friends in the 1970s when she lived in New York. Most people simply assumed that hilarious falsetto voice of hers was a gimmick, a trick she learned to increase her comic effect. Wrong. That exquisite falsetto was her plain old natural voice.

One day Butterfly called me and said, “I did a voice-over commercial and they told me I’d get paid in 21 days, and 21 days went by and I didn’t get paid, and then another 21 days went by and no pay, and then I went on a vacation, and when I got back my pay still hadn’t come, and I called them and they said everything got upscuddled and I’d have to wait another 21 days before I get paid.”

Butterfly then ended her tirade on a note those anti-Trumpers would understand.

“Barry,” she literally screamed, “That’s genocide!”

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