He practically bellowed it from the rooftops with his praise of foreign dictators, which he did even before he was President of the USA.
You could tell how much he relished being the “boss” who could fire anyone on The Apprentice. He gets off on the whole idea of complete control.
He has always been depraved and acted as rules don’t apply to him. He’s been a poster boy for fascism his whole life while flouting the fucking legal system.