Nine Notorious Dictators, Nine Shout-Outs From Donald Trump

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The president of the United States continues to heap praise on the world's most reviled rulers.

The Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to allow President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely set off harsh criticism in China, as well as international opprobrium. But the power grab appears to have at least one fan: Donald Trump.

“He’s now president for life. President for life. No, he’s great,” Trump said of Xi at a lunch and fundraiser at his Mar-a-Lago estate, according to CNN, which obtained a recording of the remarks. “And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot some day.”

Context, of course, is everything. Trump may well have been joking (CNN hasn’t yet released the audio of the remarks), but his comments about Xi’s hold on power in China, a Communist dictatorship, add to Trump’s long history of offering support or even outright praise for dictators and strongmen the world over.

Russian President Vladimir Putin

What Trump said about him: “If he says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him. I’ve already said, he is really very much of a leader. I mean, you can say, ‘Oh, isn’t that a terrible thing’—the man has very strong control over a country. Now, it’s a very different system, and I don’t happen to like the system. But certainly, in that system, he’s been a leader, far more than our president has been a leader.”

When: September 2016

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1. Preet Bharara...

...Was on San Harris’s Waking Up podcast not long ago and he made the comment that if Trump could have his way he would absolutely shift our way of government from a democracy to a dictatorship. If he had his way he would get rid of all the checks and balances on him in our system. Shut down any and all dissent about him the way Putin does. Preet is absolutely right. I personally think most republicans while publicly criticize dictators, secretly admire dictators and the power they have over the countries they dictate.