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In 2020, social media users began to circulate what was said to be an excerpt from a psychological profile of Adolf Hitler prepared by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (the forerunner of today's CIA), with the implication that it also described the current occupant of the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump. The meme read as follows: Whom else these words might apply to is a subjective issue, but we can verify that they were taken from a genuine psychological profile of Hitler. During World War II, William J. Wild Bill Donovan, the head of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS), commissioned a psychoanalytic report of Hitler that was prepared by psychoanalyst Walter C. Langer in collaboration with other psychologists and submitted to the OSS in late 1943 or early 1944. Titled A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler: His Life and Legend, the 165-page document, which was initially classified Secret, was declassified in 1968 and published in book form in 1972. The passage quoted above appears on page 38 in Part III (Hitler -- As His Associates Know Him) of the report:
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