Trump Goes Mask Off With Chilling Comment About Dictators

[Celerity]

The president has some disturbing thoughts about what the American people really want.

https://newrepublic.com/post/199519/donald-trump-chicago-chilling-comment-dictator

https://archive.ph/VGoO6



Donald Trump claimed the American people are asking for a dictator—and he seems more than happy to give them what they want. While signing executive orders in the Oval Office Monday morning, Trump whined that people were up in arms after he suggested that he would deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, following his federal takeover of Washington D.C. Not everyone in Chicago was unhappy with this plan, he claimed. “A lot of people are saying ‘maybe we like a dictator,’” Trump said.



The president then attempted to course-correct. “I don’t like a dictator, I’m not a dictator,” he quickly said. “I’m a man with great common sense, and I’m a smart person.”

It’s not clear that there is any meaningful difference between a dictator, and a leader pleasing the people who are asking for one. What is apparent, however, is that Trump’s plan to move federal forces to other American cities is so unpopular that he’s concocting consent for tyranny as a means to justify it.

Crucially, Trump gets closer to becoming a dictator everyday—on Monday, he signed an executive order which would criminalize flag burning, an act of political expression protected by the First Amendment, claiming that it incited riots. If Trump truly believed that inciting a riot earns you a year in prison, then the president himself is well overdue for a stint behind bars.

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[Walleye]

1. "A lot of people are saying" meaning Stephen Miller

They think they wanting a majority of the vote entitles them to do anything. And yet they will tell you over and over we are not a democracy, we are Republic. I haven’t heard that lately though.

[Ping Tung]

4. If he walks like a dictator and, talks like a dictator, it's probably a Trump.

If he has to announce that he doesn't like dictators, and doesn't want to be a dictator, what does that ??mean.?

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks" from Hamlet

[Walleye]

6. He is a dictator now, nothing is restraining him

[MacKasey]

2. Burn the trump flag

[Walleye]

7. I like that idea, we should be burning them everywhere

Dare him to put us in jail for burning his flag

[johnnyfins]

3. If you have to say, for the camera, you're a man with

"Great common sense" and that you are a "very smart person"? You are most definitley neither.

[Solly Mack]

5. The only good dictator and all that...