American media circles were all abuzz this weekend about a little episode on Twitter featuring Donald Trump and a quote he liked.
Gawker created a Twitter account last year that spouted quotes from Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini but attributing the quotes to Donald Trump. Nothing happened to the account until Donald Trump himself retweeted this quote:
Note the name on the Gawker account is ilduce2016. Il Duce, for those who don’t know is Italian for The Leader, and was Mussolini’s chosen title. German nazis took the cue from Mussolini, incidentally, when they referred to Adolf Hitler as der fuhrer.
