The world leaders Trump seems to get on best with, are consistently brutal and oppressive leaders:
- Putin (Russia)
- Kim (North Korea)
- Duterte (Philippines)
- Erdoğan (Turkey)
- Salman (Saudi Arabia)
- Xi (China)
The world leaders Trump seems to get on worst with, are consistently democratically elected leaders:
- Trudeau (Canada)
- Nieto (Mexico)
- Merkel (Germany)
But Trump took his love of dictators to whole new public levels this week. Various media (esp Fox) low-balled him some easy opportunities to say things like "being a brutal dictator and randomly executing people is bad, the US stands for democracy and constitutional rights." Trump, missed all those opportunities and choose to never express those sentiments in any way, shape, or form, even when the Fox hosts were trying to prompt him to do it. Trump instead went out of his way to praise dictators, to state that he wished he could behave like they do, and to talk admiringly of their horrific actions, to the point where even the Fox hosts were becoming uncomfortable and tried to side-track him.
According to some presidential historians, no US president has ever so consistently said approving things about dictators as Trump does.
Some of his comments:
Trump also praised North Korean state media for it's favorable coverage of their leader saying it was even better than Fox News.
Trump claimed that Kim loves his people. Trump also seemed to particularly enjoy the fact that Kim murders his generals when they displease him. Trump seemed pretty pleased about this when he explained this, to the Fox host:
Trump seems to wish he could "'fire' at least" many people in the US, especially media people.
Given all of his comments, I think it's pretty clear that Trump wishes he was an absolute dictator like Kim, and could murder people if and when he wanted, and wishes that the media praised him endlessly like is does Kim. Trump seems to have no interest in, nor desire to praise or defend or promote, democracy or constitutional rights or an adversarial media, which have traditionally been the major values of the US.
- Putin (Russia)
- Kim (North Korea)
- Duterte (Philippines)
- Erdoğan (Turkey)
- Salman (Saudi Arabia)
- Xi (China)
The world leaders Trump seems to get on worst with, are consistently democratically elected leaders:
- Trudeau (Canada)
- Nieto (Mexico)
- Merkel (Germany)
But Trump took his love of dictators to whole new public levels this week. Various media (esp Fox) low-balled him some easy opportunities to say things like "being a brutal dictator and randomly executing people is bad, the US stands for democracy and constitutional rights." Trump, missed all those opportunities and choose to never express those sentiments in any way, shape, or form, even when the Fox hosts were trying to prompt him to do it. Trump instead went out of his way to praise dictators, to state that he wished he could behave like they do, and to talk admiringly of their horrific actions, to the point where even the Fox hosts were becoming uncomfortable and tried to side-track him.
According to some presidential historians, no US president has ever so consistently said approving things about dictators as Trump does.
Some of his comments:
Trump also praised North Korean state media for it's favorable coverage of their leader saying it was even better than Fox News.
Trump claimed that Kim loves his people. Trump also seemed to particularly enjoy the fact that Kim murders his generals when they displease him. Trump seemed pretty pleased about this when he explained this, to the Fox host:
Host: Just before you met with him [Kim] he cleaned house. Some of the top generals, some of the hard-liners, he's fired...
Trump: I think he 'fired' at least [i.e. killed], okay. When you say he 'fired'.
Host: [Not getting it] [He only fired ] 3 [generals] that we know of.
Trump: Maybe 'fired' at least. 'Fired' maybe a nice word [for it].
Trump: I think he 'fired' at least [i.e. killed], okay. When you say he 'fired'.
Host: [Not getting it] [He only fired ] 3 [generals] that we know of.
Trump: Maybe 'fired' at least. 'Fired' maybe a nice word [for it].
Given all of his comments, I think it's pretty clear that Trump wishes he was an absolute dictator like Kim, and could murder people if and when he wanted, and wishes that the media praised him endlessly like is does Kim. Trump seems to have no interest in, nor desire to praise or defend or promote, democracy or constitutional rights or an adversarial media, which have traditionally been the major values of the US.
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