Trump Admits He'll Be A Dictator But Only For One Day

In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity this week, Donald Trump was asked directly if he was going to be a "dictator" if he wins next year. The former President responded that "no", he would not, "except for day one." So he admitted that he will act like a dictator, something that many have feared, but he swears it'll be for just one day so that he can "close the border" and "drill, drill, drill." This is not his plan, and it will not end on day one, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Well, folks, it's the clip heard round the world that sent every actual American patriot into a bit of a panic. During an interview with Sean Hannity this week, Donald Trump admitted that if he gets back into office, he will in fact be a dictator, although he swears just for a day, you know, just one day as a dictator. And then the other, you know, four years of his second term would just be smooth sailing through calm seas. No abuses of power at all. In case you haven't already seen it. Here is Donald Trump telling Sean Hannity exactly what he is going to do to the country if he gets back in office. Take a look.

We almost have to go to a break. I want to go back to this one issue though, because the media has been focused on this and attacking you. Yeah. Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody

Except for day one.

Yeah. Except for, look,

He's going crazy except for day one. Meaning I want to close the border and I want to drill that

Not drill. That's not, oh no, that's not retribution. I got it. I'm gonna be,

I'm gonna be, you know, he keeps,

We

Love this guy. He says, you're not gonna be a dictator, are you? I said, no, no, no. Other than day one, we're closing the border and we're drilling, drilling, drilling after that. I'm not a dictator.

Okay. So that, that, that sounds to me like you're going back to the policies when you were president. Alright?

Because, you know, you have to be a dictator to close the border and, uh, expand drilling on US soil. Um, no. No, actually you don't. And that's the part of the conversation that I think pretty much everybody has missed in their analysis of what happened on Hannity's program this week. Donald Trump can actually do those things just as president of the United States, either through executive order or through his cabinet. People. He does not have to be a dictator to, you know, stop whatever it is he wants to stop or thinks he can stop at the southern border. He doesn't have to be a dictator to open up federal lands for fossil fuel exploitation. So the fact that he says, I'm gonna be a dictator to just do those things already shows that he's not serious about those two things. Now, I don't wanna be an alarmist that that's not who I am.

I don't like to put people in a state of panic. But if there were any one statement that I had to point to, to show why Donald Trump should never be trusted with power again, that would be it. Like 100%. Because this is what most of us have been warning everyone about for over a year now. I mean, Liz Cheney came out earlier, uh, it was over the weekend actually, and said that if Trump gets back into the White House, he'll never leave. Like, he's not gonna be worried that, oh no, I'm term limited. We know because they've laid out the plans and his allies, Steve Bannon and Kosh Patel explained it in detail in an interview this week that the goal Project 2025 Heritage Foundation, all that is to stack the federal government, top to bottom. They said, those are their words, top to bottom with Trump loyalists, who will make sure that he has the absolute power to do absolutely anything.