Trump Is Still Praising Bloodthirsty Dictators - Ring of Fire
"The tougher they were, the better I got along with them" is how Donald Trump recently described his favorite dictators Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un during a recent interview with Fox News host Mark Levin. These are "leaders" who routinely murder their own people for criticizing their regimes, so it is no wonder that Trump would idolize these men. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this horrific statement from Trump.
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During a recent interview with Fox News host Mark Levin, Donald Trump once again decided to praise blood thirsty dictators around the globe, talking about what an awesome relationship that he had with him, as he explains in his new book where he publishes a bunch of letters that these foreign leaders allegedly sent to him. So take a look at this clip. This is Donald Trump again, telling Mark Levin how awesome it was to be friends with these horrible human beings. Here he is.
Let ask you a question about that. You have really fascinating letters in here from Putin, from G from on in North Korea, and I can go on and on. And what I notice, there's a common thread. You had a personal relationship with every one of these leaders, whether they're genocide or maniacs, whether they're elected like Abe of Japan, who was a close friend of yours and was assassinated. And I want to get into some of this. What would you say your farm policy is? Because I think people keep projecting onto your farm policy, what it is that they think they want people to think your farm policy is. What would you say it is?
So I think more than anything else, and it was a very personal relationship and you know, it's sort of a weird situation. The tougher they were, the better I got along with them. And that's probably a good thing cuz it was the tough ones that had the, the big powerful countries, the ones that can do destruction,
And the tougher they were, the better I got along with 'em. Right? That's not surprising. Right? We understand that because these men, both Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin represent everything that Donald Trump wants to be. He wants to be that leader that rules with an iron fist. He wants to be the leader where if you criticize him, the next time we see your name in the news, it's gonna be because, oh no, you fell out of a window for the record. There have been 63 high profile Russians that have fallen out of windows since Putin invaded Ukraine. Just, just throwing that out. There is a little bit of trivia, 63 high profile Russians that have fallen out of windows in the last 13, 14 months. It's not a coincidence. They, they don't have a window problem. They have a psychopath problem in Russia and that's Vladimir Putin.
And that's why Trump loves him. If you off Putin, you're not taking the elevator down to the ground floor, you're going much faster. If you off Kim Jong un, you're headed for three generations of imprisonment. That's what they do. I had to look that up and verify that that is still a thing. North Korea does, and it is. You get locked away in the labor camp for three generations. Your children's children will be locked up with you. And that is what Donald Trump wants to do. He wants complete, complete control over the press so that nobody can say anything bad about him. He wants to be able to imprison or worse his critics. He wants to rule with that iron fist that he sees these other dictators using. That is why he got along with them. Not because they respected him, but because he admired them. He was like a little boy looking up at his version, his perverted version of Superman. Oh, I wanna be just like you when I grow up. That is why Donald Trump loved these people.