Trump Soft-Launches His Dictatorship
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🗓️ 25 August 2025
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| 0:24.4 | You've got to sign. your bestselling blends. Visit sumup.co.com to learn more. Hey, everybody, Tim Miller from the Bullwark here with my buddy, JVL, author of the Triad |
| 0:23.8 | newsletter, which you've got to sign up for at the Bullwark.com. We had to get on this morning |
| 0:28.3 | because while I was taping the pod, our president, Donald Trump, I think basically did a |
| 0:34.9 | dictatorship trial balloon, I think is the best way you could describe this. |
| 0:39.9 | Maybe that's slightly overstating it. |
| 0:41.4 | We'll be interested to see what JVL thinks. |
| 0:43.7 | Why don't we watch the clip together and see what we think on the other side? |
| 0:49.2 | I made the statement that next year to be Chicago, because as you all know, Chicago is a killing field right now. And they |
| 0:55.7 | don't acknowledge it. And they say, we don't need them. Freedom, freedom. He's a dictator. A lot of |
| 1:01.7 | people are saying maybe we like a dictator. I don't like a dictator. I'm not a dictator. I'm a man |
| 1:07.9 | with great common sense and a smart person. |
| 1:13.5 | And when I see what's happening to our cities, |
| 1:16.9 | and then you send in troops, instead of being praised, |
| 1:19.7 | they're saying you're trying to take over the republic. |
| 1:20.9 | All right, JBL. |
| 1:25.1 | So a lot of people are saying, maybe we'd like a dictator, not Trump. |
| 1:26.8 | He caveats, not me. |
| 1:28.4 | A lot of other people are saying it. |
| 1:36.3 | We kind of have a long track record of Trump floating of a lot of other people saying something and then him coming around to it. |
| 1:43.4 | Yeah. Yeah. With tears in their eyes. They say, so this is actually the second time he's done this, Tim. |
| 1:49.6 | Last week, he was talking about the National Guard being sent to D.C. |
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