To think that the USA is a dictatorship now?

There are 350 millions Americans and although I don’t live there I have family and a fair few friends and I see media posts and I call bullshit on your ‘most of us are happy! He’s divided the country and politically many can’t stand him. He’s a divisive man and full of hatred and gets off on people worshipping him.

Will they be able to vote him out though? 🤔

This, as pp said, it's the people of the USA who've voted him in.
Its not a dictatorship just because they have different views and political opinions to you!

IMO I think there is a subset of mn posters who lack the critical thinking to realise that - surprise - other people think differently from them, and aren't idiots/racists (insert abusive epithet of choice).

Precisely. The UK has no business lecturing anyone.

I was told a few days ago by someone who was travelling to Washington soon that they check your phone as you enter the country to see if you have any anti- Trump stuff on your social media. If you do they can and will refuse entry. So they are going to set themselves up with a completely blank phone. I was 😮
Do you believe everything people tell you? Do you honestly think immigration have time to do this?

How dare you be happy with how the bad orange man is doing?

Let these educated, enlightened Brits with a superiority complex educate you. And don’t mention the current state of the UK or its many problems… this criticism only works in one direction, you see. They can dish it out but don’t like taking it 😁

He doesn't get things done though. He's the "announcement president". He says this or signs an EO on that before moving on /chickening out / bowing down to Putin, and the usual mugs assume it happened because he said it.

No we just let our 12 year olds get raped by grooming gangs then cover it up. We are no better.

People die in your country because people like Trump and to be honest any political party (of any shade) has not challenged why your citizens should have to pay for treatment and drugs to the extent they do. Trump is asking the drug companies he does not have an invested interest in to comply.

OP in answer to your question I’d say not a dictatorship but the US was never, ever a democracy - it looks like it’s becoming an oligarchy more than anything.

North Korea is a dictatorship. The US is nowhere near on the same level of authoritarianism.

lol. At least we don’t force 12 year olds who have been raped to have a forced birth. We still respect Womens right to have bodily autonomy in this country. With the US overturning Roe and Wade I don’t recognise what country you have become, with pastors (read right wing Christian fundamentalists) who openly preach that women need to submit to their husbands. With vile men like Tate being welcome by the US. With Trump forcing law firms, universities to submit to him you don’t have much freedom of speech either. Oh and at least none of us will become bankrupt when we need healthcare in this country.

lol. At least we don’t force 12 year olds who have been raped to have a forced birth. We still respect Womens right to have bodily autonomy in this country. With the US overturning Roe and Wade I don’t recognise what country you have become, with pastors (read right wing Christian fundamentalists) who openly preach that women need to submit to their husbands. With vile men like Tate being welcome by the US. With Trump forcing law firms, universities to submit to him you don’t have much freedom of speech either. Oh and at least none of us will become bankrupt when we need healthcare in this country.

Haha, you forgot to throw in a mention of "Khan's London" and people getting thrown into jail for praying in their homes.

Just say "I'm incredibly gullible and believe everything I see on Twitter or get told by JD Vance", it would be much quicker.

Of course it’s not, don’t be so silly. When you voted Conservative and ended up with Labour, do you suddenly start believing you live in a communist state because you don’t like Labour policies and didn’t vote for them?

Ah come on, Trump is a wannabe dictator and I can’t believe people are defending the orange idiot.

Which is all well and good when you agree with the stuff he is ‘getting done’. When it negatively impacts you and there is no democratic way to stop it happening it might start to feel rather like communism.

That’s what appeals to people. He gets things done. You might not like what he’s doing, but he’s actually doing it. UK politicians of all parties talk the same inane talk and achieve precisely nothing.

That’s the fault of their health system!!!!!!! Why the hell are they forcing countries elsewhere to absorb their crazy prices instead of coming up with a way of offering health care to their citizens that doesn’t require a bank loan each time. Talk about the tail wagging the dog.

So Trump wants big pharma to stop selling drugs at rip off prices to people in America and that makes him a dictator? They pay three times the price for the same drugs as European countries so I can see why he’s a bit pissed with that and wants change. Eli Lilly could have dropped the American price to fall in line with ours but instead they took the other option of raising it. I follow a lot of Mounjaro subs on Reddit and the price they pay if their insurance won’t cover it is insane.

I was told a few days ago by someone who was travelling to Washington soon that they check your phone as you enter the country to see if you have any anti- Trump stuff on your social media. If you do they can and will refuse entry. So they are going to set themselves up with a completely blank phone. I was 😮

Oh, and please do explain how Trump signing executive orders asking drug companies to reduce their charges to Americans is a bad thing? Do you have any idea how exorbitant drug prices are in the US? People have DIED in this country because they cannot afford their treatment. Your comment makes no sense.

We won't properly know if it's a dictatorship until the midterms.

It's certainly an authoritarian state right now.