In a line that is far too good to be abandoned, despite widespread doubt that he ever really said it, historians and pundits have never been able to let go of the way President Franklin D. Roosevelt supposedly described Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza around about 1939.
Translation: Somoza is a murderous and thieving autocrat who came to power through trickery and violence. But he’s not a communist. He will allow American interests to continue have their way with the whole of Central America, mines, plantations, etc.
There is no doubt in the mind of any sentient person that the president of the United States is a crook, a fascist, a Russian asset and on the payroll of the House of Saud.