Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said she believes President Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE is the “most anti-democratic president that I have studied in American history."

Albright, whose new book “Fascism: A Warning” comes out next week, told NPR Monday that the U.S. isn’t fulfilling its role as a democratic leader in the world under Trump.

"I believe very much that democracy in the United States is resilient [and] that people can be skeptical about things that are going on, but I really am afraid that we are taking things for granted,” she said.

Albright said Trump’s attacks on the judicial system, the electoral process and minorities as well as his attempts to undermine the press show that his instincts aren’t democratic.

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“I've picked up that phrase ‘see something, say something,’ and I am seeing some things that are the kinds of things that we have seen in other countries, and so I am saying not only should we say something, but we have to do something about it,” Albright said.

“We normally have believed that the president tells the truth. And I know I'm very worried about the fact that there are deliberate ways of misstating the issue, and then the people think, ‘If the president said it, it must be right,’ when it's just a deliberate untruth,” she continued.

The former top diplomat, who served in the Clinton administration, has criticized Trump's behavior before, saying last year that his "disdain for diplomacy" is driving an exodus of staffers from the State Department and creating a "national security emergency."