“I’m going to be a dictator for one day”Trump said he would be a dictator for one day while describing border and energy plans.
Transcript location: 00:11:50
Campaign event · 2024-01-06
Clinton: Trump Again Says He Would Be a Dictator for One Day
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Trump repeated his dictator-for-one-day formulation while promising border enforcement and expanded drilling.
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The repetition makes this a documented rhetorical pattern rather than an isolated slip. He again specified one day; the page preserves that context.
“Drill, baby, drill”He connected the phrase to energy policy and later stressed that it was limited to one day.
Transcript location: 00:12:31
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