Trump told the crowd, “One rough hour, and I mean real rough, the word will get out, and it will end immediately. End immediately. You know, it’ll end immediately.”

Trump continues to think it all works on fear and “respect”.

On X, formerly Twitter, Ben-Ghiat posted, “I study dictators and this chills me. Given all his comments in the past about executing people & shooting looters and his admiration for leaders specialized in mass repression, it’s not hard to imagine what ‘one really violent day’ would mean.”