David Frum

They turn out to be like doormats, human worms.

The currency maneuver, putting a signature on the currency, I looked it up.

That turns out not to be illegal.

The coin business is almost certainly illegal.

You're not allowed to put living people on the coins.

And the only way they're defeating it is by creating commemorative coins, describing the coins that Trump will be on.

They're commemorative coins.

And there is a loophole that while circulating coins are not allowed to bear the likeness of a living person.

commemorative coins.

No one got around to writing rules about that.

Because I think if they think of commemorative coins as being like a medal with the authors of the statute, so that's probably illegal.

But the whole thing

You know, when you're up, you look vainglorious.

If the president is down, he's going to look like a pathetic weakling idiot.

Like the idea is that, well, you lost a war, but you built a ballroom.

That's what people are going to say about you.

That sounds kind of like one of those dim-witted Russian czars playing with toy soldiers while the empire falls apart.

You know, some of them ended up in lunatic asylums.

But there's something kind of like the dim-witted, feeble-minded czar about this.

And one of the reasons presidents – there's a kind of decent respect for the Republican institutions of the country.