Everybody just calm down
I'm so tired of fearmongering from hysterical commentators like Donald Trump about how Donald Trump wants to be a dictator.
The current big media groupthink fad, as exemplified by The Washington Post and a special edition of The Atlantic, is to shriek and whine and bawl about how Donald Trump, if re-elected in 2024, will be not just a bad President but an actual dictator.
And this time, they mean it.
Yes, they said that in 2016, and they’ve been saying that about every Republican Presidential candidate for the past five or six decades, but with Trump in 2024 it’s just different because it is.
At least Chris Cuomo - acclaimed journalist, scion of an upstanding political family, and anchor on one of America’s ten highest-rated cable news channels - is pushing back against the media madness:
NewsNation host Chris Cuomo disagreed with the idea that former President Donald Trump would “destroy any of the institutions” if re-elected president in 2024, arguing that “he doesn’t have those kinds of ambitions” as “he’s not a megalomaniac.”
During a debate between Republican commentator Scottie Nell Hughes and former Democratic Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner on NewsNation’s Cuomo, Cuomo said, “I feel that what the media, the left is doing is well-intentioned, they care, but they’re giving Trump too much credit and they’re making him a big deal.”
He continued:
The reason the guy isn’t gonna destroy any of the institutions is ’cause he doesn’t understand them, Scottie. He doesn’t have those kinds of ambitions. He doesn’t have that kind of philosophy. He’s not a megalomaniac because he doesn’t think that way. He just wants to win because he lost, and he wants to get back in and do what he did the first time, which is basically what Republicans do with a lot worse language.
Well said, Mr. Cuomo. Do you know how bad this “dictator Trump” panic has gotten? There’s a well-known political commentator named Donald Trump whose warnings about how Donald Trump will conduct himself as President are absolutely hysterical and almost impossible to believe:
Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday in Fox News Town Hall that he would not be a dictator "except for Day One" if he is elected to the presidency next year.
In a taped town hall with Fox News anchor Sean Hannity in Iowa, the former president was asked whether he would use the presidency to "abuse power, to break the law, to use the government to go after people" several times.
"You are promising America tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?" Hannity asked.
"Except for Day One," Trump said.
When asked to clarify, Trump said he would use the presidency to close the border and increase oil drilling in the U.S.
"That is not retribution," Hannity said.
"I love this guy. He says, 'You're not going to 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," Trump said.
I, for one, cannot believe anyone with a shot at the Presidency would possibly think like this. And even if he would, surely he’d be savvy enough to keep quiet about it and not blurt out his plans for dictatorship during campaign events.
Donald Trump, my friend, you really have to calm the heck down about the possibility of another Donald Trump term in office. Keep talking like this, and no one is going to take you seriously.
News Nation has a total 65,000 (that's right, thousands, not millions) viewers and calls itself "nonpartisan MAGA" (whateverinhell *that* means). After Cuomo got dumped at CNN, this is where he ended up, at the Last Frickin' Chance Bar and Grill. And he has said he is "open" to voting for Trump - after spending four years at CNN as a "dedicated anti-Trumper." He's basically not only a worthless but a useless piece of something you scrape off your shoe.
I almost thought this post was a giant troll, till it came through that you don't know what News Nation is or who Cuomo has become.