Maggie Haberman

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255 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 19 Jul

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The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 198. How Trump’s Imperial Presidency Really Works · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

And if he does, he puts, you know, challenge coin medallions all over.

Anyway, we had not been in since he started doing this.

And we walk in, it's day 17 of the war.

And you'd think there would be maps or documents or, you know, he used to keep classified documents on his desk when reporters would come in and turn one.

This time, he picks up pictures and it's maple trees.

And he says, I'm buying trees for the White House.

I'm paraphrasing, but I picked good trees.

Underneath that were plans for his ballroom and the types of columns that they were going to use.

And we were talking about the size and the variation, Athens versus Rome.

And then...

I think it was our second question to him was about presidential power, because we knew he had been telling people that he was the most powerful U.S.

president that had ever been.

And so we asked him a variation of that question to see what he would say.

And in response, he had his ever-present aide, Natalie Harp, who sits along the wall in nearly every Oval Office meeting, Natalie, go get the printouts from the historian.

And so she brings us these

These sheets of paper.

And the first paragraph was essentially Donald Trump is the most powerful person who's ever walked the face of the earth.

And then it goes through this list of what he describes as the top 10, which is history's conquerors and monsters.

You know, Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Napoleon, Tamerlane, the Caesars, Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan.

I'm missing someone.

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