A Democratic activist revealed the strategy behind President Donald Trump's most recent gibe at the American republic.
On Monday, Trump claimed that "a lot of people are saying, 'Maybe we'd like a dictator?'" during a press conference in the Oval Office.
Trump came close to describing himself as a dictator during the press conference, but never crossed the line.
"I’m a man with great common sense, and I’m a smart person," Trump said. "And when I see what’s happened to our cities, and then you send in troops. Instead of being praised, they’re saying, ‘You’re trying to take over the republic.’ These people are sick.”
Democratic activist Cameron Kasky, who co-founded the gun safety group Never Again MSD, said Trump's comments are similar to his strategy for flirting with women, during a new episode of The Bulwark's "FYPod."
"I'm normally too insecure to say anything that's directly a flirt, because I'm afraid that somebody doesn't like me," Kasky said. "So, what I like to do is I like to make any flirtatious comment that I'm making funny enough that if someone isn't interested, they sort of have the out of laughing it off."
"And it seems like that's the Trump model," Kasky added. "It starts as a joke, and then the people who choose to take it as a joke will do so."
"Trump's dictatorship gambit is similar to how you flirt with actresses," he added.
