Jon Lovett

You will be greater than Reagan.

You will be Reagan plus.

You will be whatever it is he says.

He says Reagan plus?

Reagan plus, which is, I think, how you cook a steak, actually.

Yeah, it's Reagan, but you also get Ted Lasso.

Medium rare plus.

The coordination with the Israelis.

And so I think, look, Trump cares about his base to an extent, but he also thinks they're stupid.

And you always can go back to, like, I could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and they would never abandon me part.

And so I think what he cares most about right now is being a historic figure, building monuments to himself, even if it's politically unpopular, the ballroom, the Iran war, whatever else.

Yeah, he doesn't have to face the voters again.

Yeah, he doesn't give a shit.

All he wants to do is, for the rest of his life, go to the Kennedy Center, the Trump Kennedy Center, when they rebuild it, and with the fucking marble armrests, and go in and have people be like, oh, Donald Trump...

The greatest president in the history of the world who's made the world safe for freedom and peace.

And even if only like his sycophants are saying that, that's good enough for him.

And then he can feel good about himself.

Yeah.

I also think he's learned.

Yeah, because he doesn't have to face his voters anymore.