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Trump is channeling the Führer principle and what Nazi legal scholar Carl Schmitt described as a “state of exception.”

Would its leadership drop the oath to the Constitution and swear an oath to Trump personally, as the German Army did when it swore personal allegiance to the Führer rather than the Weimar constitution?

In terms of how Trump understands political power, such values are reflected by how he is an aspiring dictator who channels Hitler and the Führer principle’s logic that such a leader is above the law and should be the embodiment of the State like some type of God-king.

His collection includes ornate WC pans and basins covered in floral decoration, huge old cast-iron baths, antique brass taps, polished wooden loo seats, and that potty with the Fuhrer feature.

“The Führer was a man who was possible in Germany only at that very moment,” Frank said.