Steve, if you pardon me, I'm answering in installments. 1st answer on the first video posted, and thanks for providing some real evidence and not hearsay.
It cannot be said he glorified any dictators. He said they are smart. Matter of fact
statements. Pragmatically. Know thy enemy. They are not dumb, they must be dealt in accordance with their ability to rule tyrannically hundreds of million of persons. We, the westerners, must be smart because they are smart. Do not underestimate them. I subscribe all of the above which is the true message Trump wanted to convey. Of course his adversaries wanted to construe those statements in a way to discredit him. They call the statements 'praise' or 'glorification'. Of course. it's part of the dishonest political game. This strategy didn't pay though, Mr. Trump in the end won, the law of karma in action.
Someone else construed Mr. Trump's words as I did. Below, I'm pasting one of the comments. Everything must be taken in its context. Otherwise we should say that even Yogananda was a fan of Hitler. But we know well that this is true only in the very limited context of pre-war social order in Germany and the positive things the Fuhrer was able to achieve, especially so winning over widespread atheistic communism. Yogananda sure did not praise what happened afterward, the killings, the genocide.
He's just stating facts, they are smart, but made horrible decisions devoted to their own rotten actions and goals
