“And they say … ‘He’s a dictator. He’s a dictator,’” the president said of his critics. “A lot of people are saying, ‘Maybe we’d like a dictator.’ I don’t like a dictator. I’m not a dictator.”
Why did Trump add this addendum? Maybe he’s being provocative. Or maybe the guy who has repeatedly suggested he should have absolute power and gone to great lengths to expand his power is planting a seed that it might be a good thing – even a popular thing.