5 months ago
President Donald Trump said Monday that he thinks Americans may like a “dictator,” though he wouldn’t describe himself as one.
“They say: ‘We don’t need him. Freedom, freedom, he’s a dictator, he’s a dictator,’” Trump told reporters at the Oval Office. “A lot of people are saying, ‘Maybe we like a dictator.’ I don’t like a dictator. I’m not a dictator. I’m a man with great common sense and a smart person.”
Trump’s remarks came as he signed a raft of executive orders, including one in which he tasked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to lead the training of a specialized National Guard unit dedicated to “ensuring public safety” in Washington, D.C.
A Public Religion Research Institute poll conducted earlier this year shows a majority of Americans see Trump, who has repeatedly talked about the possibility of staying in office beyond constitutional term limits and whose Administration has shown a disdain for judicial oversight, as a “dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy.”
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