Recently I've been catching up on all the articles comparing Trump to the notoriously thin-skinned and diplomatically-inept Kaiser Wilhelm II. Probably old news to many, but somehow I'd missed them (I saw one reference to the idea, and googled, and discovered it's been a recurrent theme for a long time).
Funny thing is the one article I found sniffily disputing the comparison was (a) not very convincing, and (b) primarily concerned with defending the reputation of the Kaiser.
Just one example of someone making the comparison, for anyone who is as late to this party as I am
Donald Trump is reminiscent of Kaiser Wilhelm II, during whose reign the upper echelons of the German government began to unravel into a free-for-all.
www.newyorker.com