It is possible that Donald Trump does not believe in democracy, but has been cast into a land filled with it. I think of how he speaks highly of Vladimir Putin, and how he speaks well of other dictators.
1. Of North Korea's Kim Jong-un: "We fell in love.”2. Of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: "He’s become a friend of mine. . . . He’s running a very difficult part of the world. . . . He’s getting very high marks.”
3. Of Chinese President Xi Jinping: "I like President Xi a lot. I consider him a friend . . . a strong guy.”
4. He quoted Benito Mussolini in a tweet: “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.” The tweet ended with "#MakeAmericaGreatAgain." Nice to know what "Make America Great Again" means to the guy who created the phrase.
5. He boasted of how he "made a lot of money" working with Moammar Gadhafi and suggested he should explore more business ventures with him.
5. Of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi: "We agree on so many things. . . . We are very much behind President el-Sisi."
6. In an interview with Sean Hannity, Hannity three times asked Trump if he thought Vladimir Putin was an evil guy, and each time Trump dodged the question and failed to say.
After reading all the praise he has heaped on foreign dictators, don't you wonder how many times Trump has been so quick to George Washington, or Abraham Lincoln? He's done the opposite; he has degraded them. When on tour of Mount Vernon, he criticized Washington for not naming it after himself. “If he was smart, he would’ve put his name on it,” Trump said. He has questioned Lincoln's legacy of helping Blacks, suggesting that he, Trump, has done more for them than Lincoln. Why does he not at least throw in a comment of what great leaders Washington and Lincoln were? He has offered such kind words for dictators, but has not offered them for American's greatest leaders.
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