Trump admires the CONCEPT of authoritarian dictatorships

[EarlG]

He looks at Putin, Kim, Duterte, Xi, the Saudis, etc., and he thinks, "That's how things should be done." He's publicly stated his love for their "strength" and "leadership" on many occasions. Thank goodness then, that he appears to be too dumb, lazy, and incompetent to fully commit to doing what those dictators have done to their people.

Listen to him on that phone call with the governors: You're gonna look foolish! Go out there and get tough! Dominate! Crack some skulls! Send a message of strength! All while he cowers in the White House hiding behind his iPhone. He seems to desperately want to commit the same evils as Putin et al, but he doesn't seem to be able to figure out how to actually do it (plus, he doesn't want to take the blame for anything that might happen).

Instead, he's begging America's governors to do it for him. And most, if not all, will simply ignore him, because they know that what he's asking for is a recipe for disaster.

On the phone call, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker told Trump the nation was craving a steady hand from the top.

"Rhetoric coming out of the White House is making it worse, people are experiencing real pain," Pritzker, a Democrat, told the President. "We've got to have national leadership calling for calm and legitimate concern for protestors."

"I don't like your rhetoric that much either," Trump fired back.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/01/politics/donald-trump-race-police/index.html

Pathetic!

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Pathetic, but true to form.

There will be no chance of healing until he is GONE.

[Grasswire2]

2. Just in the same way he handed COVID off to governors...

..so they could take blame.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. What an irony. You have a predominately white consumer base who refuses to

be dictated to and want to open businesses in the midst of a pandemic--they're protesting in the streets with guns. No one bats an eye.

Trump, however, wants to dominate, dominate, dominate the people who are protesting the killing of a black man.

[mitch96]

4. Bush said the same thing..

what is it with these repukes and dictatorships?
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[demmiblue]

5. From 2016: Trump's favorite dictators: In reviled tyrants, GOP nominee finds traits to praise

Donald Trump’s regular praise for authoritarian governments and dictators has come under fresh scrutiny this week following his latest laudatory comments about the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, whose human rights abuses and support for international terrorism made him a top enemy of the United States for decades.

“He was a bad guy, really bad guy. But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good,” Trump said during a campaign event in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday evening. “They didn’t read them the rights — they didn’t talk, they were a terrorist, it was over. Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism. You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It’s like Harvard. Okay? So sad.”

The remarks have revived worries among Republican lawmakers and members of the party’s foreign-policy establishment, many of whom have become increasingly despondent over Trump’s loose and threatening rhetoric on international relations. Many critics in both parties also say that the presumptive GOP presidential nominee is laying out an alarmingly dark worldview that should give voters serious pause.

“This follows a disturbing trend of Trump relating to the way brutal tyrants executed policy in their countries. I do think that there’s something dark about Trump’s view of the world,” said Republican strategist Tim Miller, a former Jeb Bush aide who has played an active role in the anti-Trump movement. “When a person running for president continually compliments brutal, undemocratic dictators and their methods, I think it’s fair to have some concerns that those are methods that they might be interested in deploying if necessary.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-favorite-dictators-in-reviled-tyrants-gop-nominee-finds-traits-to-praise/2016/07/06/8debf792-4385-11e6-bc99-7d269f8719b1_story.html

[pwb]

6. Trump says Follow Me and nobody came.

Nice try Putin but Trump does not convince.

[IronLionZion]

7. 25th amendment, throw him out