'Nervous' Trump insiders forced to put out fires after his 'lethal' comments: analyst

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The two top officials heading up Donald Trump's third campaign for the presidency are being placed in the unenviable position of having to issue statements clarifying his planned policies because he can't stop talking about being a "dictator," according to a columnist Monday.

What started as comments by some of the ex-president's former aides about plans to use the power of the presidency to go after his perceived enemies in Congress and in the press has taken on a life of its own, wrote Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton.

That, in turn, became a full-fledged firestorm after Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Trump for assurances he wouldn't abuse power or seek retribution once he was back in the Oval Office, to which Trump replied, "Except for day one. I want to close the border, and I want to drill, drill, drill.”

Parton wrote that the Trump campaign is growing increasingly nervous that his dictator talk is sticking — particularly because he keeps riffing on it in speeches, including in New York City on Saturday night.