‘This Is What Interests Him!’ Ex Trump Press Sec Says Trump Fawns Over Viktor Orbán Because ‘He Wants To Be a Dictator’ Too

Former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham claimed that former President Donald Trump “wants to be a dictator” and that’s why he is so taken with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Trump and his wife Melania Trump greeted the Hungarian leader at Mar-a-Lago earlier this week by hosting a lavish party in celebration of the autocrat who has ruled Hungary for over a decade.

CNN anchor Erica Hill asked Grisham during an interview Friday if it’s an “exaggeration” to say Trump wants to borrow from “Orban’s playbook” and is planning to rule as an autocrat if he gains a second term in office.

Grisham said it’s “absolutely not” and exaggeration,” and that Trump “wants to be a dictator.”

HILL: Stephanie, this meeting today with Viktor Orban and Donald Trump. I know you had been in the room right when Trump had meetings with strongmen like Orban. Do you think it’s an exaggeration that he wants to use Orban’s playbook in many ways?

GRISHAM: Absolutely not. You know, hearing Kristen say that the meeting lasted at least an hour and a half just tells you something right there. Donald Trump has the attention span of a gnat, and the fact that he’s sitting in there with a dictator shows you that this is what interests him.

I have sat in many bilateral meetings with world leaders, and he always looked forward to speaking with President Erdogan of Turkey or President XI of China, of course, Putin. And, you know, it’s funny, you played that soundbite where Trump said that, you know, that he’s such a strong man and need a strong man leading your country. They’re strong men against their own country, against the people of their own country.

I think that’s something that should be thought about there. And I think you’re looking at a second Donald Trump term, in fact, in terms of he wants to be strong, that he can be tough with his own people, not be not be good to to our allies, not be good to our people and not to, you know, defend people like in Ukraine. He wants to be a dictator.

Watch the clip above via CNN.