CNN presidential historian claims Trump fulfilled 'promise to be a dictator on day one' with executive orders

CNN statesmanlike historiographer Timothy Naftali suggested President Trump succeeded successful being a "dictator connected time one" of his presidency, based connected his actions connected Inauguration Day.

Naftali reacted to the quality the president would sign much than 200 enforcement orders connected his archetypal day, a record-breaking number. 

"He has decided to marque bully connected his committedness to beryllium a dictator connected time one," Naftali said, referencing a remark Trump made during a 2023 town hallway with Fox News' Sean Hannity.

Trump quipped past that helium wouldn't beryllium a dictator, "Except for time one. We're closing the borderline and we're drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I'm not a dictator."

CNN historiographer Timothy Naftali commented connected President Trump's rhetoric aft his inauguration Monday. (CNN screenshot)

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Naftali added however Trump invited respective planetary leaders, specified arsenic Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Argentine President Javier Milei, who Naftali criticized arsenic "far-right" leaders.

He went connected to onslaught Trump’s past calls to get Greenland and regain power implicit the Panama Canal, suggesting this is capitulating to the "far-right." 

"In a sense, we had the far-right planetary represented astatine the inauguration," Naftali said. "And the President of the United States, for the archetypal clip since 1901, successful an inaugural address, talked astir however this state is going to get caller territory and threatened the sovereignty of different country. 

"That is simply a awesome to the far-right successful the satellite that America is present going to play the crippled the mode the different far-right countries play, which is, ‘What we want, we take.’" 

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Argentina's President Javier Milei stock a gag arsenic they get for the Presidential Inauguration of Donald Trump astatine the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol successful Washington, U.S. January 20, 2025.  (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)

He continued, "Which means, for the archetypal clip since World War II, we are nary longer an indispensable nation. If we travel done with the rhetoric successful the inauguration, we person go an imperialist nation." 

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Trump promised successful his inaugural code that U.S. "sovereignty volition beryllium reclaimed, our information volition beryllium restored. The scales of justness volition beryllium rebalanced. The vicious, convulsive and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our authorities volition end. And our apical precedence volition beryllium to make a federation that is proud, prosperous and free."

Trump had projected acquiring Greenland up of his inauguration. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Naftali added, "The benignant of rhetoric the president utilized successful his inaugural code is the benignant of rhetoric 1 associates with imperial large power."

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