Oh -I think he is intentionally and gleefully hoping history repeats itself.
From a 25 year old Vanity Fair article -
4. When pressed on awkward topics””such as whether or not he regularly read Adolf Hitler’s speeches””he turns skittish and, perhaps, inventive.
Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.
“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.
Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”
“I don’t remember,” I said.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/08/...na-divorce
Seems to me that he is a fan.