Kim Jong Un

“It’s incredible. He wiped out the uncle. He wiped out this one, that one. I mean, this guy doesn’t play games.”

Trump went on to say at a rally in January, “You’ve got to give him credit. How many young guys—he was like 26 or 25 when his father died—take over these tough generals?” Trump’s praise of the North Korean dictator is alarming to say the least and no compliments are necessary for someone who inherited a tyrannical position in government from his father, especially not from a U.S. presidential candidate.

Muammar Gaddafi

“He came to the country, and he had to make a deal with me because he needed a place to stay.”

Gaddafi remains a divisive and controversial character today, five years after his death, but Trump apparently didn’t find him all that terrible during his regime. Though the U.S. openly defied Gaddafi’s politics, the dictator was in the country in 2009 for the United Nations General Assembly meeting. Many others slammed their doors in the Libyan leader’s face, but Trump saw that there was money to be made and rented land to Gaddafi for his stay.