MAGA keeps telling us Donald Trump is not a dictator. Fine. Let’s test that.

This is a True/False quiz. Twenty-five questions. Each one describes behavior associated with authoritarian leaders and dictators throughout history. All you have to do is answer honestly — True or False — for each one as it applies to Donald Trump.

Ready? Here we go.

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True or False — a dictator would:

1. Push to have their name placed on the nation’s currency?

2. Demand that major new government projects — a ballroom, a triumphal arch, a naval vessel class — be named after themselves?

3. Want their own image printed on the passports carried by every citizen of their nation?

4. Systematically label any unfavorable media coverage as “fake news” and work to delegitimize every outlet that doesn’t serve their interests?

5. Demand absolute personal loyalty from everyone around them, while publicly branding anyone who pushes back, disagrees, or upholds the law over them as a “traitor”?

6. Publicly attack and threaten federal judges who rule against their policies — including threatening to have them investigated, impeached, or removed?

7. Go after Supreme Court justices they personally appointed to the bench for failing to deliver the rulings they expected in return?

8. Direct their Justice Department to open investigations and pursue prosecutions against political opponents, former officials, critics, and anyone else on their enemies list?

9. Issue pardons to individuals with documented financial ties to their political organizations and personal businesses?

10. Openly and explicitly claim — on camera, on the record — that as the nation’s leader they can do whatever they want without legal consequence?

11. Attempt to assert executive control over how individual states conduct their elections — overriding the authority of governors and state legislatures?

12. Declare any election result that doesn’t go their way to be “rigged,” “stolen,” and “illegitimate” — while accepting only the results that favor them?

13. Personally target and attempt to destroy the careers of comedians and satirists who mock them — demanding networks fire them, calling for boycotts, and using the power of their office to intimidate?

14. Officially label independent journalists and free press organizations “enemies of the people” — the precise phrase used by Stalin, Mao, and Hitler to justify suppressing a free press?

15. Repeatedly attack and undermine democratically elected leaders of allied nations while consistently praising, defending, and making excuses for autocrats, strongmen, and dictators?

16. Describe political opponents not as people with different views, but as “the enemy from within” who should be “hated” — language that historically precedes the physical persecution of political minorities?

17. Pardon over 1,600 individuals who were convicted of crimes directly related to a violent attempt to block the certification of a free and fair election that they lost?

18. Fire any government official, military leader, inspector general, or oversight figure deemed insufficiently loyal to their personal agenda — regardless of qualifications, expertise, or legal protections?

19. Require the people who work for them to sit around a Cabinet table and publicly deliver over-the-top praise of their leadership — on camera — as a condition of remaining in their positions?

20. Attempt to have major national landmarks and infrastructure — airports, train stations, public spaces — renamed after themselves while still in office?

21. Name a new class of military vessels after themselves?

22. Attach their own name to a memorial built to honor a former president who died in office — inserting themselves into another leader’s legacy?

23. Direct that large images of themselves be hung throughout government buildings in the nation’s capital?

24. Throw themselves a military parade on their own birthday — despite having never served a single day in uniform — using the armed forces as a backdrop for personal celebration?

25. Use the power of their office to grow their personal net worth by billions of dollars through crypto schemes, foreign gifts, branded merchandise, and business arrangements that allow anyone in the world to funnel money directly into their pockets?

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That’s twenty-five questions. And it’s not even close to a complete list. This could easily be fifty. A hundred. The pattern is that consistent and that extensive.

Now here’s what makes this exercise genuinely important — and what MAGA needs to sit with before answering:

For virtually every single one of these twenty-five questions, the correct answer for every traditional American president — Republican and Democrat alike — going back decades is False.

Not “mostly false.” Not “it depends.” False.

George H.W. Bush. Bill Clinton. George W. Bush. Barack Obama. None of them tried to put their name on the currency. None of them demanded their image on passports. None of them fired inspectors general for doing their jobs. None of them declared the free press “enemies of the people.” None of them pardoned over a thousand people convicted of attacking the Capitol. None of them sat at a Cabinet table requiring public worship as a condition of employment. None of them tried to rename airports after themselves while still in office. None of them named warships after themselves. None of them grew their net worth by billions of dollars through arrangements that allowed foreign governments to funnel money directly into their pockets while they were president.

Not one. From either party. In modern American history.

The entire premise of American democracy — the thing that has separated this country from the authoritarian governments it has spent 250 years opposing — is that presidents are temporary occupants of an office, not owners of a nation. They serve. They leave. They do not name things after themselves while they’re still in power. They do not demand loyalty oaths. They do not call their opponents enemies of the people. They do not pardon the people who attacked the Capitol on their behalf. They do not use the Justice Department as a personal weapon against critics.

Every single answer to these twenty-five questions being True for Donald Trump while being False for every president who came before him is not a coincidence. It is not a media conspiracy. It is not Trump Derangement Syndrome.

It is a pattern. Documented. Timestamped. Observable by anyone willing to look honestly at the record.

So MAGA — the quiz is open. Take it. Answer each question honestly and with a straight face.

And then look at your answers and tell us — with complete sincerity — that what you’re describing is a traditional president who respects the Constitution, honors the norms of the office, and operates within the system of checks and balances that the Founders built specifically to prevent what you just answered True to twenty-five times.

We’re waiting.