Dana Perino

This is a man who has executed.

He's a dealmaker who's delivered.

He's a peacemaker.

who I think is able to enter that hall.

I did it four times with him.

He's able to enter that hall, feel that moment, and feel the gravity of his position.

But he also gets a lot of joy on the job.

He loves thinking about the guests.

It's a very curated process, who the first lady and the president will invite in the box.

appeal to all of them.

He will mention some of them by name.

And they're different, I think, travails.

And I think President Trump is better than most, Dana, at conveying to us the real people impact, what I call the RPI.

Who is really being impacted by the policies of this first year?

And look, we even forget

that they shut down the border almost a year ago.

It was done so quickly and so efficiently that it's almost in the rear view.

But that's still a big part of his polling.

Put the ICE stuff aside for the moment.

Big part of his polling is that he kept that big promise for national security, national sovereignty.