President Donald Trump has heard concerns that he behaves like a dictator. On Tuesday, he questioned whether that’s such a bad thing.

During a Cabinet meeting in the White House, Trump described criticisms of his decision to deploy the National Guard in Washington, D.C.

“So the line is that I’m a dictator, but I stop crime,” he said. “So, a lot of people say, you know, ‘If that’s the case, I’d rather have a dictator.’ But I’m not a dictator. I just had to stop crime.”

It was the second time in as many days that Trump invoked the term.

“And 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,” he said Monday, while signing an executive order directing agencies to prosecute anybody who burns an American flag

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