https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/politics/trump-national-guard-chicago-dictator.html
>“You have a guy in Illinois, the governor of Illinois, saying that crime has been much better in Chicago recently and Trump is a dictator,” Mr. Trump said. “Most people are saying, ‘If you call him a dictator, if he stops crime, he can be whatever he wants’ — I am not a dictator, by the way.”
>“Not that I don’t have — I would — the right to do anything I want to do,” Mr. Trump said. “I’m the president of the United States. If I think our country is in danger — and it is in danger in these cities — I can do it.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cly22nkpz8gt
>Children killed and injured in pews when attacker shot through Minneapolis church windows