The president has engaged in authoritarian discourse plenty of times before.
Trump complained that he was not getting credit for his National Guard-backed crackdown on crime and immigration in the US capital.
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Monday suggested Americans would like a dictator as he signed orders to tighten his federal clampdown on the capital Washington and to…
Talking about people who have called him a dictator, he said: 'They say 'we don't need him. Freedom, freedom. He's a dictator. He's a dictator.' A lot of people are saying:
US President Donald Trump on Monday suggested many Americans would like a dictator as he signed orders to tighten his federal clampdown on the capital...
"So the line is that I’m a dictator, but I stop crime," the president said Tuesday. "So a lot of people say, you know, 'If that’s the case, I’d rather have a dictator.'"