The pundits on MSNBC are having a difficult time accepting the probability of another Trump presidency.
Historian and MSNBC commentator Michael Bechloss launched into an unhinged rant claiming Donald Trump has ambitions to become a dictator for life if elected again.
“We all know…the term servant leadership. The president is supposed to be a servant leader. Serving us. Trump’s saying he’s gonna be a dictator for a day — which is not gonna be for a day if it happens, could be for the rest of our lifetimes, our children’s and more — but if that happens, that’s totally against American history,” he said on Sunday.
Michael Beschloss is worried Donald Trump could be dictator “for the rest of our lifetimes and our children’s and more”
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“The highest rank in the United States is not president, it’s citizen, as Harry Truman said. And I would just say one thing, in the United States, we do not work for a president, the president works for us,” he added.
There’s a lot of lunacy to unpack here.
First off, Trump’s tongue-in-cheek comment that he would be a “dictator” for a day referred to his aim to close the border and resume oil drilling without Congressional approval, which would be his right if elected once again.
“I said I want to be a dictator for one day. You know why I wanted to be a dictator? Because I want a wall, and I want to drill, drill, drill,” Trump said last December.
Second, Trump is 77 years old, so Bechloss’s warning that Trump would be dictator beyond even our children’s lifetimes is so nonsensical and hyperbolic even for mainstream media rhetoric.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden is persecuting his top political rival with a weaponized judicial system, jailing his critics and censoring Trump’s supporters — not at all the behavior of a dictator!