Katie Rogers

High earners.

10% of high earners make up for half of the economy growth.

No, high earners are not hurting.

It's the low earners.

It's the middle earners.

It's the people that you have promised to help.

What do you say to them?

I think it's the degree to which the president throughout this interview really wanted credit and he wanted gestures of goodwill from people he wanted respect from, be it Democrats, Republicans, members of the news media, the American public.

And one of the ways I felt that that was manifesting during this whole encounter was

He's building a ballroom where the East Wing used to be big enough to host an inauguration inside for future presidents.

And he kept going back to this idea that he's a builder.

He mentioned that maybe he was a better builder than he ever has been at politics.

And at one point he summons a military aide.

to bring in an architectural rendering with miniature models of the ballroom and is sort of almost telling us and himself that building being built over there, they'll be thanking me as if this is the project that will do it, that will give him this credit that he has been seeking in this term, his last term, and throughout his time in public life.

My major takeaway from this is that there are many faces to President Trump.

And even throughout that interview, it was a real exercise in wrangling those different personas because he was combative.

He was upbeat at times.

He was very almost docile when we were asking him probing questions about his health.

And so instead of being the President Trump who has called

reporters seditious for asking questions about his health.