America craves a dictator, Donald Trump said Monday, citing an often-used source.

“A lot of people are saying, ‘maybe we’d like a dictator,’” the president told reporters Monday as he signed an executive order reversing the ban on cash bail for defendants in Washington, D.C.

Trump made the claim while commenting on crime in Chicago — a city he’s threatened to send the National Guard to.

“As you all know, Chicago’s a killing field right now. And they don’t acknowledge it,” the presdient said. But they say, ‘we’ don’t need him, freedom, freedom, freedom. He’s a dictator, he’s a dictator.’"

“A lot of people are saying, ‘maybe we’d like a dictator,’ Trump said while denying that he fits that characterization.

“I don’t like a dictator, I’m not a dictator,” he said. “I’m a man with great

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