"He appeals to me and I think he is down to earth and he speaks from the heart and he is not trying to be politically correct. He's just straight-forward," he reportedly said of Trump at the time."
~ http://www.ibtimes.com/malik-obamas-twitter-storm-barack-obamas-half-brother-celebrates-trump-victory-mocks-2444599
Berlusconi-esque???
“What he did was to perpetuate the old system he inherited, which was a clientelist system where meritocracy had no place, and corruption is rife, and people were almost encouraged by Berlusconi not to pay their taxes. Italy was a swamp … and he made it worse,” Dinmore said.
Journalist Iacoboni agreed, saying the lasting impact of Berlusconi was “the cultural idea that you could do anything in your own interests.”
“He legitimised every kind of infraction of rules, going back to his television career in the 1980s. It was as if to say: ‘You Italians like to be gross with women? Well, I say to you, you can do this.’ I think this [idea you can do anything to further your own interests] is much worse than even the legal accusations.”
~ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/21/if-berlusconi-is-like-trump-what-can-italy-teach-america
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