Jon Meacham: Trump ‘Is Playing the Role More of a King in the Culture than of a Traditional President’

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MEACHAM: "You look around the world, and now let’s be very careful here about analogies, but if you look around the world, there are statues of leaders that are obsessively built and erected, and so this is a — this is more about, this has more in common with, a kind of totalitarian culture in which there is a central figure who is the embodiment of the state. And it goes back, again and again, to President Trump’s sensibilities are monarchical. They’re not democratic with a lowercase 'd.' And it’s not been a mystery over the last 10 years or so, and the country decided to do it twice, but we should call it for what it is, which is that he is playing the role more of a king in the culture than of a traditional president."