(Washington) Donald Trump launched on Monday that many Americans “would like to have a dictator”, during an improvised and prolonged press conference in the Oval Office, devoted to security subjects and recriminations against his opponents.
“Many people say” maybe we would like to have a dictator “. I don’t like dictators. I am not a dictator. I am a man endowed with a lot of common sense and intelligent, “said the American president, accused of authoritarian drift by his opponents for his immigration and security policy.
“You send the army and, instead of congratulating you, they accuse you of storming the Republic,” he said, referring to his decision to send the National Guard to the streets of Washington for ordering order operations.
Donald Trump signed before journalists a decree punishing anyone who burns an American flag, and this although the Supreme Court considered in a judgment of 1989 that such an act was of freedom of expression, a fundamental right protected by the Constitution.
“If you burn a flag, you will have a year in prison, without early release,” he said.
The 79 -year -old republican, who spoke for 80 minutes on the most diverse subjects, with force digressions, also said that he intended to rename the Department of Defense to give him the name of “Ministry of War”, and thus return to an appellation which existed from 1789 to 1949.
During another brighter interview with the press, he added: “Defense, it is too defensive, and we also want to be offensive”, suggesting that he would not need a vote of the Congress to make the change.
“Aspiring dictator”
The Republican President also attacked his political adversaries, more particularly to those whose name is sometimes mentioned for the Democratic candidacy for the 2028 presidential election.
He has in particular dealt with “Sagouin” the Democratic Governor of Illinois JB Pritzker, and launched that he should “do more sport”, in reference to his corpulence.
The latter, who had already described this weekend the president of “dictator”, dried up the nail on Monday in Chicago, a big city in the viewfinder of Donald Trump to deploy the National Guard.
“Donald Trump wants to use the army to occupy an American city, punish its dissidents and score politically. If it happened in any other country, we would have no trouble calling it a dangerous takeover, “said Mr. Pritzker treating the person” aspiring dictator “.
Donald Trump also criticized the governors of California, Gavin Newsom, and Maryland, Wes Moore, who both recently attacked him with mockery on social networks. He launched on the Democratic Party: “All their potential candidates are doing a bad job”.
“Massive gold”
The US President has repeated that Chicago could be the next aimed by his ordering order operations involving federal soldiers and police after Washington.
The federal capital will also be “impeccable” to receive the world of football next summer, welcomed Donald Trump, taking advantage of the opportunity to show the competition trophy, which now sits in the oval office.
“It is a solid gold trophy. They know how to get it well! “, Waitled the billionaire president, known for his taste for ostentatious luxury.
Donald Trump also has, in another digression, evoked the problems caused by Asian carp, a kind of invasive fish, for the ecosystem of the Great Lakes (North). The northeast of Illinois, where Chicago is located, borders Lake Michigan.
The president spoke of a “fairly violent fish from China, the Chinese carp”. “They jump into the boats, they jump everywhere,” he said, noting that remedying this problem would be “terribly expensive”.
“As long as I have no request from this guy (the governor of Illinois), I will do nothing,” said the Republican, who has several times threatened to question certain federal aid mechanisms for democratic states.
