If reelected, former President Donald Trump said he will immediately close the border and ‘drill, drill, drill’ for oil on day one like a “dictator.”
Fox Host Sean Hannity tried to serve Trump a softball question, asking him if he would ever abuse his power as president and seek retribution against those who have wronged him.
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Instead of merely nodding his head and agreeing that he will be pleasantly Democratic, Trump went for the controversial reply: “except on day one.”
A stunned Hannity recoiled. Trump pointed at him and laughed. “Look, he’s going crazy.”
“Except for…?” Hannity asked with a quiver in his voice.
“Except for day one. I want to close the border and I want to drill, drill, drill.”
The crowd went wild with cheers and applause.
“That’s — that’s not retribution!” Hannity said.
“I’m gonna be — you know, he keeps — we love this guy. He says, “you’re not gonna be a dictator are ya?” 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 chuckled to himself as the crowd resumed their resounding applause.
JUST IN: Donald Trump promises to never abuse his power except on “day 1” to close the border and drill for oil.
“DRILL, DRILL, DRILL.”
Hannity: “Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?”
Trump:… pic.twitter.com/dPCrERkpbj
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 6, 2023
Hannity had begun the question by referencing a recent talking point in the media, especially among liberal journalists and NeverTrump Republicans like former congresswoman Liz Cheney, that Trump could act like a dictator during his second term.
Robert Kagan, the husband of Biden Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, wrote a piece in The Washington Post titled “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.”
“Let’s stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality: There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day,” Kagan wrote. He considers it a done deal that Trump will be the Republican nominee and warned that Trump will have the full backing of a disgruntled population on his side with even fewer reservations about him seizing power than last time.
“Indicting Trump for trying to overthrow the government will prove akin to indicting Caesar for crossing the Rubicon, and just as effective,” he wrote. “Like Caesar, Trump wields a clout that transcends the laws and institutions of government, based on the unswerving personal loyalty of his army of followers.”
Cheney recently published a book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, which argues that Trump will transform the United States into a dictatorship if he wins another election. She claims that Trump will likely refuse to leave office and overturn term limits, and because of this she told The Washington Post that she is considering running as a third-party candidate to oppose him.
The entire editorial staff of The Atlantic wrote an article warning about the alleged threat to democracy that a second Trump presidency will pose, with each of its main writers contributing a piece on a specific topic. These ranged from “corruption” and “climate” to “extremism” and “disinformation.”
Very unclear whether the liberal Resistance hates Trump as much as it loves him pic.twitter.com/2WNCQ8LaNf
— Sam Haselby (@samhaselby) December 4, 2023
David Frum, a neoconservative-turned-Democrat who championed the Iraq War, wrote a long piece on the possibility of Trump becoming an “autocrat,” arguing that his “corruption and brutality” will no longer be mitigated by his “ignorance” of how the system works.
Additionally, The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN all published pieces claiming a second Trump term will be more radical, dictatorial, autocratic, and so on. Many other outlets have published similar pieces.
As Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York put it, “the alarm has gone off” and the political-commentary class’s “warning machine” has “kicked into higher gear” just as it did in 2015 when they realized Trump could actually win the Republican nomination.
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