Exactly. And in offering that green light to other authoritarian heads world-wide Trump is catering to all of them.
"Trump's "Fake News" slogan has been his continual deflection away from his own fake news."
It's a travesty that your electoral system makes it feasible 2 or 3 of 50 could have him in for a 2nd term.
If that possibility is not extinguished before then.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”