Trump: 'A Lot of People Are Saying Maybe We'd Like a Dictator'
Donald Trump said "a lot" of Americans want a dictator while taking question in the Oval Office on Monday, but claimed he doesn't want to rule as one.
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A lot of people are saying Trump going to Epstein's island dozens of times to rape kids was bad
But Maxwell said that she never saw Trump act in an inappropriate manner.
She said that shortly after requesting a pardon and then being moved to a less secure prison.
Buuut that's totally unrelated, right?
Of course, this all depends on her definition of "inappropriate". Because I can guarantee her definition does not match mine.
I forget, is there a "miss manners" kind of thing for appropriate behavior on a child rape island? Because I'm thinking she might consider it inappropriate to not rape the children.
The difference is a lot of people ARE saying him raping kids was bad. Aside from him, I don't think anyone else has said they want him to be dictator
Plenty of bootlickers are. Guarantee Stephen Miller is one of them. But those that are saying it are thinking about who they want next after this clown show.
I like dictators when they're riddled with bullets or hanging from a pole in the town square.
The only good fascist is a very dead fascist.
IIRC they played footbal with Mussolini's head after it fell off from the continuous beating his hanging body (deservedly) underwent.
God, the catharsis must have been next level
You know, now that you mention it, that is something I may want... Imagine being in the audience - how happy everyone would be! What a thing to be a part of that moment in history.
"Mr President, lots of people are saying that dictators end up in a noose like Saddam Hussein, or with a knife up their ass like Ghadafy, or in front of a firing squad like Ceausescu, or gunned down by their own bodyguards like Indira Ghandi, or beaten to death by a mob like Musollini, or killing themselves like Hitler. What death do you imagine the American Working Mob has in store for you?"
Or driven away to exile so decades later his son can run for the presidency and win.
I'm still amazed that Marcos' kid won.
Sadly, plenty of dictators that lived perfectly fine (mostly because they were smart and didn't fuck with the world beyond their borders too much). Antonio Salazar comes to mind, Franco, Lukashenko is STILL in power.
Of course, many of these regimes were watered by oceans of blood and fear.
Was Gandhi a dictator?
As prime minister, [Indira] Gandhi was known for her uncompromising political stances and centralization of power within the executive branch.… Responding to separatist tendencies and a call for revolution, she instituted a state of emergency from 1975 to 1977, during which she ruled by decree and basic civil liberties were suspended. More than 100,000 political opponents, journalists and dissenters were imprisoned. She faced the growing Sikh separatism movement throughout her fourth premiership; in response, she ordered Operation Blue Star, which involved military action in the Golden Temple and killed hundreds of Sikhs. On 31 October 1984, she was assassinated by two of her bodyguards, both of whom were Sikh nationalists seeking retribution for the events at the temple.
Have you played Civ Rev?
What death do you imagine the American Working Mob has in store for you?
Lol death by fellatio.
“Wow, you’re saying I’m like those swell fellas? That’s great!”
“No Mr. Presi- wait you think that’s a good thing?!”
For the first time in history, after even a triumphant Washington refused to be treated as a king, all the power of the US government was handed to a single individual ...
... and he's a fucking idiot who can barely read. Great job patriots 👍
Thats what makes him so relatable
Idiot, yes but at least he's not a child rapist who was best friends with a convicted human trafficking paedo for about 2 decades. And who had many, so so maaaaany failed businesses. Who was a reality TV star in a real shitty TV show. And has over 30 recent felony convictions plus numerous fines for numerous cons over the years. And was judged to have raped E Jean Carroll. Who also tried to spearhead an insurrection whilst simultaneously stealing top secret documents to sell to hostile countries or give to his boss putin!!
Because yhe 'murican population would never vote that type of person in, TWICE, would they?
Oh, wait...
Seriously at least make it a smart fascist. I get that he is just a set up for vance, but even vance is such an unbelievable pussy. Hitler and Mussolini did some time using the military. Stalin and Sadam at least acted as violent thugs for their party and did a bunch of actual crimes before taking over. Vance feels like just a guy this orange dipshit picked.
The pedophile, rapist and felon is revealing some of the orders from his Moscow handlers.
Its incredible when he talks about law and order when the guy is a career conman and a criminal. If he wasn't born into relative wealth, he would have been a small time conman and actually gone to prison for fraud or killed by someone for tricking them.
Donald, are the "lots of people" in the room with us right now?
I mean, most likely, yes. They're the people telling him it's a good idea. See Curtis Yarvin.
A lot of people also say "tax the rich to oblivion" and "housing food and water is a human right!". Will you do that too?
Sounds like communism, so no. /s
A dictatorship... of the proletariat?
Remember back in 2024 when this was all avoidable?
Anyone remember in 2020 when the people elected the Dems to hold the republicans accountable for their many crimes committed out in the open and they dragged their feet until “oh no, well it’s too late now”
If the Democratic Party can’t deliver things that voters want then the voters stay at home and the democrats are shocked like pikachu.
I won't even consider voting for any Dem candidates that doesn't expressly state that they intend to destroy MAGA, punish the traitors and criminals, roll back ALL MAGA initiatives, restore America properly, and prohibit MAGA from existing.
I want a candidate who says that they intend to arrest Trump and his henchman on minute one of their administration, and MEAN IT.
We tried.
They stole this democracy from us. Trump has stated it out loud more than once from Oval Office.
I feel like a lot of people needed to see this (and whatever comes next) happen in order to realise what they could have avoided. In some ways fascism needs to rear its head every so often to remind the public what the result of apathy in politics is.
It's what the degradation of education brings... It's brainwashing of religious views that seek to undermine a person's free will of choice... It's making people hate to be part of the in-crowd when, in reality, the only crowd that matters to these people is the money crowd...
When one side seeks to destroy personal freedoms, and the other is complicit because of greed...
The whole thing is fucked... and the people who thought they were on the right side are finding out they are not... but its okay as long as someone suffers more than them...
some ways fascism needs to rear its head every so often to remind the public what the result of apathy in politics is.
I mean, it really really really doesn't. Education was all that was needed for me.
A lot of people are saying he raped children.
Instead of Time's Man of the Year Award he should get Time's Pedo of the Year Award.
Donald Trump raped children.
I've heard a lot of people say that, you know.
All the best people are saying it too
I've heard people saying that
yes, because he fucked children
I’m sure there are some out there. The thing is, they don’t full understand the implications of what that transition would entail has how disastrous it would be, not only to the US itself, but the global balance as well. These are people who never bothered to learn history or to think beyond the rim of their MAGA cap.
I agree they should relase them (they never will) but this is not (just) a distraction from that. This is announcing what he is planning on doing in the future.
We would be wise to take this seriously and be vigilant.
Everyone should take all of his threats (aka campaign promises) very seriously.
Always.
Also, Donald Trump is in the Epstein files.
He raped children.
this is a bullshit attempt at distraction
He raped children, I am in no way, shape, or form disputing this.
But this is not a distraction. It was in Project 2025, he has talked about it for years. He wants to be a dictator. He isn't trying to distract from being a pedo, but treating his authoritarian statements as a distraction serves only to distract from any action we have left to stop it.
He can be both, a pedo and a dictator. And we should act accordingly
With violence?
He did, and that’s not something to disregard, but that is their distraction from everything else his handlers have been getting away with. You’re focused on Trump, that’s entirely what they’re banking on and it’s working.
I'd like a dictator...to hang from a light post.
Maybe as a Christmas tree ornament? You can have dozens of MAGATs hanging from the branches, with their eyes 'X'ed out.
Ok. Then name one. Name just one person that said that.
He's been using the line "lots of people are saying" for a long time to say how great he is. Check out this old Barbara Walters interview: https://youtu.be/mW1NPLeTf_c
Trump: The plaza is a very valuable property. Everybody told me, Oh, you paid too much. You paid too much. Now they're all saying what a great deal he made.
Barbara: No they're not.
I love the look on his face when she says that. Today he'd probably pivot into saying how unfair that is, and maybe mention her vagina being dirty or something. Back then, he had to sit and take the fact that his bullshit was called out and he's has nothing.
This was in 1990. He bought the New York Plaza hotel in 1988 for $390M. By 1992, it was $550M in debt and was in bankruptcy.
Source: a young Senator in 2016 who is definitely going places
All I think of is when someone says that on Wikipedia and then they just add a superscript after saying “how many?”
John Barron
Fkn lol
Quite honestly there are millions of hardcore MAGA people that are on board.
Probably confused between the words director and dictator
Probably rather a lot of people in his inner circle.
he has experience in defenestrating people, his wife "fell" down the stairs.
I have unfortunately been hearing a lot of my peers say we need to abandon democracy, on both the left and the right.
And Americans are rolling over and allowing this. My childhood and all those Hollywood movies actually made me believe Americans would fight. Instead they whimpered quietly.
Rolling over and allowing him to make a statement that is no way an action? Seems reasonable to me.
I mean. He's not wrong. That's why he's in power.
And are those people in the room with us, right now?
Because I highly doubt he speaks to anyone aside from the sycophants he surrounds himself with.
And are those people in the room with us, right now?
Doubtful. Putin gives him his orders by phone.
‘A lot of people are saying’ is just like a prefix he uses
It's what the voices in his head are saying
There's a whole documentary on fox news about this phrase.
Can God just lightning strike this traitorous sack of human shit already? The man objectively deserves to die.
He won't, Trump is a test to see how much shit we'll take before we stand up for ourselves, and we're failing. Miserably.
I'm just going to say it....
Did anyone not expect this? Like... Of the people on Lemmy, is anyone here surprised that he is pushing to be a dictator?
Oh, also, Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. Donald Trump raped children.
Well there were a bunch of people saying that he's the better choice over Harris because of the whole genocide thing. Which, last I checked, still hasn't stopped, but when I point that out, people make new accounts to tell me I'm a genocide denier and should get genocided myself. Methinks those users are actually Trump fans.
Yeah, I pointed out how the Dems weren't as bad as Trump and they say I'm promoting genocide.
Idiots or bots? I don't know. If they're being earnest, I get that the corporate dems are in Israel's pocket and stuff. No denying that, but like you said ... the Republicans haven't stopped it as far as I can tell either.
A lot of people are saying Trump is a pedophile too.
Child rapist dictator. Is america great yet?
Someone I knew believed to be a Hollywood film star of the 1950s late, late in his life.
As far as I know, at least he hadn't access to nukes.
Dementia is a removed, so is the pedophile orange.
Trump's been a Mussolini Guy since the 1980s. This isn't dementia speaking. It's a core conviction he's had for his entire adult life.
Little bit of column a, little bit of column b
A lot of people are saying that I should have a free ferrari, tons of people!!!!
I doubt he can get his butt in one. Definitely can't get back out on his own.
A lot of people are saying release the Epstein files.
I'd venture a great deal more people, actually.
I hope his IV treatments hurt. The bruising on his hand means it may sometimes be hard to get the vein.
To require the IV version of diarhetics means his congestive heart failure must be really bad. Most ppl can just take the pill version.
All that swelling can also mean he's near kidney failure. Would not be surprised if he needs dialysis soon.
I hope he suffers a lot of pain and we can hear him cry about it.
Also, release the Epstein files.
Reading this made my heart sing. Bless you, sir/madam.
Let’s hope he has a long life of this. Also, release the files…
Hey. It wouldn't be all bad. We could legally hunt a US dictator.
If he stays in office for one day unelected it is open season.
Already no one is allowed in the White House, and DC is under National Guard control. They're setting this one up well in advance, friend. Still not sure what to do about it.
Anybody calling for a gen strike yet? I wish I had a labor union to tell me when it's time.
What reality do you live in, and how can I transfer to it?
"I don't waaant to be a dictator... but a lot of people waaant me to be a dictator... so maybe I'll be a dictator."
I'd like to see ours hanging from a lamp post.
From the white house balcony would be a better image in the history books though.
Buy guns, stockpile ammunition, learn to shoot.
Enough of this bullshit.
I'm not convinced the sudden surge in posts from otherwise left-leaning people encourage gun ownership aren't at least partially perpetuated by an astroturfing campaign on behalf of gun manufacturers
There are many types of power that people should have, martial among them. Without force, it isn't possible to hold leaders to account if they decide to forego the interests of the people they lead.
Hahaha the left have guns. We just don't wave them around in public like children.
I wonder who that dictator might be? Theres just an incontinent 80 year old with dementia there.
Is emo eyeliner Vance going to be that dictator?
Best I can do is AOC, hardened by years of civil war, made merciless by witnessing innumerable horrors and the loss of loved ones.
That or the cyborg Burn-hard Sandblaster
The new 40k lore drop is sick.
If NK can have a necrocracy, he can run a senilocracy -especially since he's basically just a figurehead for oligarchs and fascists anyway that repeats whatever the most recent person told him.
A lot of people are saying that trump had an intimate relationship with a sexual predator that trafficked children and was involved in the same or similar pedophilic behavior. A lot of people are saying this.
A lot of people are saying my penis is not small, in fact they are saying it's a totally normal penis, FAKE. NEWS. Sometimes after my IV treatment it ALMOST sticks out past the pubes I said MELANIA, I said would you look at THIS but she wouldn't unlock the bathroom door FAAAAKE NEWS!
We are witnessing the downfall of American democracy. Hopefully Europe holds.
Europe is already falling. This was part of a coordinated effort. The right did stupid shit to erode the US, hostile foreign powers hijacked the Republican Party using Trump once they had weakened the US enough, and this destabilized the entire western world due to their reliance on the US.
The republicans dumbly did exactly what their enemies wanted. And they still don’t even realize they are being used yet.
Die into oblivion already, Donald. And go to hell.
“A lot of people are saying” is Trumps version of Christians saying “God says I’m right.” With Christians, they are the only ones who get to speak for God, who agrees with them on everything, and anyone saying otherwise is lying. With Trump, the “lot of people” are never people you can directly question or challenge. He’s making it up, saying he has a consensus but cant prove it.
A lot of people are saying Luigi Mangione did a horrible thing for the best fucking reason and was totally justified in doing so.
A lot of people want a dictator….yea, not quite as believable.
I don’t know about now but I know his first term multiple coworkers who said this and who also said his kids should take over for him when he dies- especially Ivanka and Kushner or Baron when he’s old enough. And they were dead serious.
Did he change his name? It is now, "A lot of people J. Trump?"
10 people isn’t a lot.
Perhaps only MAGA is saying that.
I’d ask for a list of who says this but we know how that turned out.
The dementia demons in your head don’t count as people. No one wants the turd reich.
The people who call themselves patriots and put the flags in the bio, mindlessly nod and clap.
Dictators and kings… I say we should go full traditional on these two kind of people.
A lot of people are saying that, but those are people willing to do anything for him and Elon. It's not an accurate description of what the average American citizen thinks. I think the average American just wants a stable economy and freedom to live how we want to and he's not giving us that. I'd also argue that the average American would want to own a house that they could afford to pass down and be able to afford raising a family, and don't want to be pushed into a rental market for the rest of their lives. You know, the American dream.
The fact that you care about the "average" rather than just "a lot of people" means you value democracy. He doesn't. A "lot" of people doesn't need to be a majority or even a plurality. It just needs to be the right people.
I think he thinks they mean "Dick Tater". I mean, he certainly fits the bill.
Nah Dick Taker... For Putin....
I have been saying for awhile that a lot of straight men are saying maybe theyd like to suck dick.
But a lot more of other people are saying things that would get the secret service asking them pointed questions if it got out.
And at that point. I get my gun and I disappear.
