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The viral video showed Mbappe saying that the funniest internet meme about him he had seen was of his face photo-shopped onto that of "some guy -- I think he's a Chinese dictator".

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

Screenshots of the meme and interview were shared, with both the word "dictator" and Mbappé's face blurred out.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Mbappe in September addressed a previous meme depicting him as a military dictator, in an interview with French sports newspaper L'Equipe.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

Maricarmen inherited her parents’ rent-controlled lease, set decades ago under the military dictator Francisco Franco.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Sapiens by contrast is more like a banana republic dictator.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Despite being elected to represent fewer than 1,000 people, his forenames being those of two notorious fascist dictators has drawn outsized international attention to the small corner of the country.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The ICC isn’t good at putting away dictators, but it is excellent at self-preservation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

"Only those nations ruled by kings or dictators display the image of their sitting ruler on the coins of the realm," he said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026

Dictators may be faithless and brutal to their own people, but in the rarefied circle of fellow dictators, a kind of camaraderie flourishes.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026

There were senators and famous actors, generals and world-renowned doctors, a few ex-presidents, and half a dozen dictators from places Matt had heard about on TV.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer