David Frum

But also most presidents are content with the thought –

I'm going to leave office and everyone's going to be mad at me because almost everyone is mad at you.

And then time will pass and then they'll forgive me and then they'll appreciate me.

And then they'll build statues of me because they want to, not because I made them.

And they'll remember me in different ways and different presidents will be remembered to different degrees.

But presidents like Harry Truman, who went out of office quite unpopular, we remember them now as hugely successful people who built the modern world, and we are grateful to them.

What Trump is betraying here is his awareness that nobody likes him but him.

And so if he doesn't arrange for the memorialization himself, it ain't going to happen.

George Washington knew the answer to that question.

If I don't build it, who's going to?

They're all going to.

They're going to queue up to do it.

Thank you.

Bye-bye.

The first time I became aware of you, and I don't mean this in a disrespectful way to Chuck Norris, was you were battling on television an extremely small Trump supporter.

Yeah.

I'd heard of you by reputation, but I'd never seen this.

He was in a booster chair.

Because you have such an affable manner.

I'd never seen like the knife underneath the sleeve.