‘Dictators Don’t Stop Being Dictators!’ Mary Trump And CNN’s Jim Acosta Call BS On Trump’s ‘Day One’ Vow
Ex-presidential niece Mary Trump and CNN anchor Jim Acosta called BS on ex-President Donald Trump’s remark that he would be a dictator if he wins the White House, but just for a hot minute.
Trump made waves with his recent promise to be a “dictator” but “only on day one,” in response to Sean Hannity’s extremely leading prompt to assure viewers he would not abuse power.
Mary Trump — host of The Mary Trump Show podcast and a strident Trump critic — was a guest on this weekend’s edition of CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta, during which both she and Acosta agreed that Trump’s “day one” disclaimer was not to be believed:
JIM ACOSTA: You heard what the president was saying last night at this fundraiser in California, seizing on what Donald Trump has been talking about recently, and I just wanted to get your reaction to what Trump was saying on Fox the other night, a dictator, but only on day one. What was your reaction when you heard that?
MARY TRUMP: …We need to take Donald at his word to a certain point. We can ignore the second half of that statement. Dictators, last I checked, don’t stop being dictators! And he has every intention of destroying American democracy and we need to be clear that it’s entirely for his own benefit. Nothing about this is ideological. So, in that context, it was really heartening to hear President Biden be so direct about what’s facing this country.
I agree that it is too early to assume that people are paying attention and we don’t want that argument to get normalized, which has been part of the problem over the last seven years. Almost everything Donald does seems to be normalized, but we’ve seen what he’s done in the past, and I think what he’s starting to do now is push the envelope and get people familiar with the concept of his dictatorial tendencies so that they just write it off the way they’ve written off all of his other egregious anti-democratic behaviors.
JIM ACOSTA: Yeah, I mean that leads me to this question, Mary, and that is, I mean, do you think Trump would stop on day one? I mean to say he would only be a dictator on the first day. I suppose if you’re the dictator on the first day, you could say, well, tomorrow I’ll be dictator too, because you’re the dictator at that point. I mean, what do you think? Does he stop on day one?
MARY TRUMP: Every day from then on will be day one, let’s put it that way. He has no intention of stopping. He knows why he needs to get back into the White House. Those reasons won’t disappear on a day two or day 100. So we have to take this threat incredibly seriously. And part of that threat isn’t just Donald’s rhetoric, it’s the reception that rhetoric receives. We heard the laughing and the cheering in that audience. We hear what his sycophants and enablers like Sean Hannity, and practically every single elected member in Congress who is a Republican, is willing to put up with, is willing to allow, and is willing to support.
Watch above via CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta.
