I figured that was obvious after Trump and Obama were all buddy-buddy at Carter's funeral.
I mean, typically you don't have a friendly relationship with someone you think is ending democracy in your country.
Which is why when Obama and Trump looked like they were best friends, that action spoke way louder than Obama's words.
I think you should go up this comment thread and read this[0], it's not the words of Trump but the actions his administration take, they are authoritarian, it's clear to most people outside of the USA with a decent education.
Cynicism about "political mudslinging" as if these actions are all normal and could be taken by any administration, and would be condemned anyway by their opposing side is exactly the shift in Overton Window which legitimises authoritarian overtakes.
Please do read about any authoritarian rise to power in democratic countries in the last 100 years, even better if you read about "competitive authoritarianism" to understand why it might just so be this time is a little different...
Looks like those dividends are finally starting to pay out.
Please tell me this isn't the only data point you're basing your conclusion on.
It's social protocol that funeral attendees treat each other in a civil manner, even if they intensely dislike each other. I'm autistic, but even I know that social rule.
Obama had made his comments about "wannabe dictator" only a week or so earlier.
Actions speak louder than words.
Obama knows this; he's been on the receiving of Trump's petty vindictiveness too many times to count. And he could just as easily be placating Trump so that he doesn't issue an executive order to, say, require every publicly-funded university in the US to offer a "men's rights studies" major, simply out of spite.
And in reality he’s happy to have Trump as a friend and isn’t really worried about a dictatorship?
What's your point?
You're defacto not a wannabe dictator because you did anything ever that wasn't dictator-y?
That seems like a low bar.