There are still free and fair elections planned for the USA, so I wouldn’t describe him as a dictator. He certainly admires them though and I have no doubt that he would love to be one. He is acting like one, with the austentatious and tacky White House updates, grovelling of underlings and hatred of critical material of his government. They give a pretense of free speech concerns in Europe, but seem more bothered that Kremlin rubbish gets called out as disinformation and he is more than happy palling up to murderers of journalists from Saudi.
