Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says President Donald Trump is “the most undemocratic president in modern American history.”
In an interview aired Sunday on the BBC’s “The Andrew Mar Show,” Albright talked about her new book, “Fascism: A Warning.”
“I am concerned about various steps and kinds of things that are happening not only in the United States,” she said.
Of Trump, she asserted, “I do not think he is a fascist. I do think he’s the most undemocratic president in modern American history.”
"By the way, it’s not easy as a former diplomat to be in a foreign country and criticize one's own president. But I am concerned,” she added, asserting that “his attitude toward freedom of speech, and the role of the media and his disregard for institutions” is what “worries” her.
But she said a fascist leader ultimately “uses violence to get what he wants.”
Albright, who served as secretary of State from 1997-2001, also weighed in on uncontrolled immigration around the world, saying that in the United States, “in terms of numbers, there’s plenty of room for people in the United States.”
“There are a lot of companies…agricultural… that say ‘we need them’,” she said.
What I find offensive is the language that President Trump uses, that the people coming in are infesting or invading is clearly ridiculous.”
Of the children separated from their illegal immigrant parents who are seized at the southern border and are sleeping in cage-like dormitories, Albright declared: “I thought it was un-American… it does remind one of things that’ve happened in fascist countries.”
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