It shows how President Trump ignores democracy. Trump should notice that he is in charge of controlling world's biggest democratic country.
Needless to say, he must be the last man to praise power consolidation of the leader in the world's biggest dictatorship country.
He may have intended to remark it to show good relationship with China without thinking a lot about what it means.
But, we cannot but say that his statemant was so careless one.
If he had to show intimacy amid extension of President Xi's position, he should have praised other things by avoiding to refer to consolidated power.