Trump is a 'failed fascist' because one thing keeps him from succeeding: historian

President Donald Trump has all the impulses of a fascist autocrat — but there's a key weakness that stands in the way of achieving his goals of reshaping the nation, historian and professor Timothy Snyder told The Daily Beast.

Specifically, he argued, Trump and his inner circle are just too greedy and distracted by their personal wealth ambitions to make the long-term decisions that would help them achieve ideological goals.

“The fascists weren’t in it for the money, right? And these guys are in it for the money," said Snyder in an interview with Daily Beast executive editor Hugh Dougherty. “It’s like, they have fascist moments, but they’re distracted by their desire to die incredibly rich.” He added, “Fascists understood they needed to win wars, right? Whereas these guys don’t. I mean, they like to talk about winning, but they don’t have the wherewithal to think about what it actually means to win a war.”

This comes as Trump's war in Iran has been floundering with no clear objectives or endgame.

Iranian officials have not budged on key issues the United States needs to get out of the situation, and have been swatting aside false claims the president has made to put the war in a better light.

"Despite countless claims of victory from administration leaders such as Trump or Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the war on Iran that the president initially said would last no longer than four to six weeks has entered its eighth, with no immediate end in sight," noted the analysis. "After threatening to attack the nation with 'lots of bombs' once the ceasefire ended on Tuesday, Trump chickened out and initiated an indefinite ceasefire until Iranian delegates come together with a 'unified proposal' to end the war. Iranian representatives refused to attend peace talks in Islamabad until the U.S. removed its blockade on the Strait of Hormuz."

Ultimately said Snyder, Trump and his allies "are failed fascists. They want somebody else to do the work of fascism for them — they want to delegate it. Like, they want to do the prancing and the preening part, but they don’t want to do the other part."