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From the perspective of a person who is neither a US citizen nor living in the USA: I (and many of my fellow countrymen/countrywomen) will relativize and defend a lot of Trump's tantrums since they give you so much material to laugh about.
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It isn't like "saying it like it is" is actually good, or a morally respectable position. It is just word vomit. Most cynically, it is a political strategy to distract from his real self-interests.
"Norway has become a shithouse country, actually"
Not a head of state, but I nominate:
Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky (Владимир Вольфович Жириновский), "Russia's Trump"
So, yes, he was a thuggish populist troll, and I agree that his mode of operation was often comparable to that of Trump. But he never had power, and never came close to getting it.
For that reason, I think most would see Trump as being in a completely different league.