US President Donald Trump on Monday suggested Americans would like a dictator as he signed orders to tighten his federal clampdown on the capital Washington and to prosecute flag-burners.

In a rambling 80-minute event in the Oval Office, Trump lambasted critics and the media as he complained that he was not getting credit for his National Guard-backed crackdown on crime and immigration.

“They say ‘we don’t need him. Freedom, freedom. He’s a dictator. He’s a dictator.’ A lot of people are saying: ‘Maybe we like a dictator,'” Trump told reporters.

But he then insisted: “I don’t like a dictator. I’m not a dictator. I’m a man with great common sense and a smart person.”

Trump — who attempted to overturn the results of his 2020 election defeat by Joe Biden at the end of his first term — sai

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