In the past, Trump never made a secret of his admiration for authoritarian leaders. During his first term, Trump claimed that the second additional article on the US constitution gave him the right to “do and leave whatever I want”. The Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of the United States, later decided that the president enjoys far -reaching immunity. He cannot be held responsible for actions that he commits in office.
“He is definitely a autocrate,” said his former chief of staff, General John Kelly. “He fulfills all the criteria of a fascist.” The American political analyst Max Boot also says about the Republican: “Trump has never met a dictator that he didn’t like. And it doesn’t stay with admiration: he wants to be like her.”
In fact, the US President maintains conspicuously good relationships with autocrats such as Vladimir Putin, Hungary Viktor Orbán, China’s XI Jinping or North Korea’s Stalinist rulers Kim Jong-Un. Already in 2018 he said in an interview with Foxnews that he would like his subordinate to follow him in the same way as this is the case in North Korea. “He (Kim Jong-Un) is the leader of this country. And I really mean a guide. I wish my people would be as tight as they do with him when he says something.”
North Korea’s ruler leads a totalitarian, unscrupulous regime that does not tolerate a contradiction. Anyone who falls out of favor with the dictator in Pyongyang must count on the worst. Government employees regularly disappear, including high civil servants, because they had drawn Kim’s anger. They end either in penalty bearers or are killed. This reports, among other things, former members of the North Korean state apparatus who were able to flee to South Korea.
In the past few weeks, Trump, among other things, has caused a stir in the fact that he sent civil servants from the immigration authority ICE and national guards in democratically ruled cities such as Los Angeles or Washington, DC, in order to combat the crime there in his opinion. However, experts consider this argument to be advanced. He had also announced a similar step for Chicago.
Illinois governor, the Democrat JB Pritzker, then accused Trump a kind of authoritarian seizure. “If that happened in any other country, we would have no problem calling the whole thing a coup d’état.” Pritzker called Trump a “wannabe dictator”.
