"PSAKI: OK. In any other world, in any other news cycle, in any other administration, the president of the United States saying this on the world stage would be huge, blaring, front page, you-couldn't-avoid-it kind of news. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Usually, they say, He`s a horrible dictator type person. I'm a dictator. But sometimes you need a dictator. (END VIDEO CLIP) PSAKI: Now that, of course, was the man who currently occupies the Oval Office saying sometimes you need a dictator and basically owning up to being one. A profoundly doesn't matter how many times he says it disturbing sentiment from the man who's supposed to be leading the world's most powerful democracy."
"So why didn`t that statement dominate all the headlines today? We hear talking about it, but why didn`t it dominate the headlines? Well, in part because we already know he sees himself as a dictator based on his tyrannical approach to governing, and also because on the same day at the World Economic Forum in Davos, when he proudly owned up to being a dictator, his shocking disconnection from reality was also on full display in the speech."
President Donald Trump delivered a lengthy, rambling speech at Davos that mixed falsehoods, exaggerations, attacks on allies and enemies, misidentification of Greenland as Iceland, praise for the occasional need for a dictator, and a boast about Europeans calling him 'daddy.' Jen Psaki opened MS NOW's The Briefing by replaying Trump's dictator remark and mocking his remarks. Psaki said the dictator comment should have dominated headlines and argued it reflected a tyrannical approach to governing. She also said the speech displayed a broader disconnection from reality that undermined presidential credibility on the world stage.
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