Jon Stewart
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It's almost easier to compare him to strongmen.
I mean, I don't know if you saw they unveiled the Trump library
But it's not a library.
It's the Freedom Tower as if the only tenant was Kim Jong-un.
Like it's twice the size of a height of any building in Miami.
And then in it are just gold statues of Donald Trump and his plane.
So how do we process an American president that has so much more in common with the illiberal strongmen of today and the past?
The arc to triumph.
I mean, and you know, when they build it, they're going to drop the I, and it's just going to be the arc to Trump.
Yeah.
Yes.
No question.
And an ADHD.
I think what you find now is and the only thing I can think about it is I'm trying to, again, be charitable is.
if you don't think of him as a dictator, but you think of him as, all right, he believes the United States is really just a subsidiary of the Trump organization.
And so he's running it.
if you don't think of it in terms of Putin, you think of it in terms of a businessman running a company that's not public.
So all the decision-making that occurs, he is, in essence, it's monarchy, but through a capitalist monarchy.
That would be the charitable definition of it.
And I think what you see is he's able to move