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Trump has repeatedly expressed support for violent actions by law enforcement and his supporters. He called for shoplifters to face "one really violent day" at the hands of the police and said that the police are "not allowed to do it, because the liberal left won’t let them do it". He was reported to, during his presidency, have called for undocumented immigrants to be shot in the leg as a way of deterrence.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Abramsky |first=Sasha |date=2024-10-04 |title=Trump—and His Supporters—Are Now Reveling in Blatantly Fascist Calls to Violence |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-maga-fascist-violence/ |access-date=2024-11-07 |language=en-US |issn=0027-8378}}</ref><ref name=":10">{{Cite news |last=Dreyfuss |first=Bob |date=2024-09-05 |title=Is Trump Building an Army of Modern Blackshirts? |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/society/donald-trump-squadristi-nazis/ |access-date=2024-11-07 |language=en-US |issn=0027-8378}}</ref> He suggested that his hecklers be "knocked the hell" out by his supporters and praised then-House candidate [[Greg Gianforte]] after he body-slammed ''The Guardian'' reporter [[Ben Jacobs (journalist)|Ben Jacobs]] while he was asking questions, stating that "any guy who can do a body slam is my kind of guy".<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 2019 |title=It Isn't Complicated: Trump Encourages Violence |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/17/opinion/trump-violence.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=October 2018 |title=Trump on Gianforte: 'Any guy who can do a body slam is my kind of guy' |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/18/trump-gianforte-body-slam-praise-915047 |work=Politico}}</ref> Trump said at a 2016 rally that "I could stand in the middle of [[Fifth Avenue|5th Avenue]] and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters". He had previously joked about the topic of killing journalists several times prior, including when he said that he "would never kill them", before reconsidering: "Uh, let’s see, uh? ... No I wouldn’t. I would never kill them, but I do hate them. And some of them are such lying, disgusting people, it's true."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Diamond |first=Jeremy |date=2016-01-23 |title=Trump: I could ‘shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters’ {{!}} CNN Politics |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/23/politics/donald-trump-shoot-somebody-support/index.html |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-12-22 |title=Donald Trump Launches Vulgar Attack on Hillary Clinton |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-launches-vulgar-attack-against-hillary-clinton-n484226 |access-date=2024-11-09 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref>
He said during the 2016 election that "the Second Amendment people" could prevent the nomination of Democratic Supreme Court justices. In 2019, he stated that "I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the [[Bikers for Trump]], I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough, until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad".<ref name=":10" /> In a 2018 interview with ''[[Axios (website)|Axios]]'' reporter [[Jim VandeHei|Jim Vandehei]], the interviewer asked: "when you're saying 'enemy of the people, enemy of the people,' ... what happens if all of a sudden someone gets shot, somebody shoots one of these reporters?", to which Trump answered: "it is my only form of fighting back".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chait |first=Jonathan |date=2018-11-05 |title=Trump Isn't Inciting Violence by Mistake, But on Purpose. He Just Told Us. |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/trump-isnt-inciting-violence-by-mistake-he-just-told-us.html |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=Intelligencer |language=en}}</ref> Trump has praised modern authoritarian leaders several times. In 2016, he expressed respect for [[Kim Jong Un]] for murdering [[Jang Song-thaek|his uncle]], saying "It's incredible. He wiped out the uncle. He wiped out this one, that one." He has praised [[Vladimir Putin]] several times, and, in 2018, he spoke positively of [[Xi Jinping]]'s ability to eliminate his term limits. About the [[1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre|Tiananmen Square protests]], he said that "When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-06-03 |title=Trump Went Full-On Fascist For A Photo-Op. What’s He Willing To Do To Keep Power? |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-fascist-reelection-authoritarianism_n_5ed816e5c5b6c0b2f10e5775 |access-date=2024-11-09 |website=HuffPost |language=en}}</ref> Trump has often used negative terms to describe democratic leaders, calling Germany's [[Angela Merkel]] "stupid", Canada's Justin Trudeau "two-faced" and France's [[Emmanuel Macron]] "very, very nasty". He called Egyptian president [[Abdel Fattah el-Sisi]] "my favorite dictator".<ref name=":11" />
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