Robert Pape

Well, a couple of things.

So first of all, President Trump is the, in some ways, the greatest politician we've had as president in my lifetime.

Now, often people will say Ronald Reagan.

Others will say Bill Clinton.

Others will say Barack Obama.

And I realize people want their favorites here.

It's like fan favorites.

They want that.

But what's really important to understand is that President Trump is, if you saw what his demeanor was when he just had a third assassination attempt, I think this is an even better example of what I'm about to describe here, is that he has been under personal pressure.

more than any of those other presidents.

So it's true, Ronald Reagan did have Hinckley.

So he was, and he, by the way,

similar to President Trump, told jokes with the doctors as they were trying to save his life.

So just to be clear.

So I don't mean to say that there's nobody who even had anything like that, but President Trump's had that three times.

And in all three of those times, it's really quite stunning.

His balance, his poise, his ability to look beyond the moment to what the moment would mean for the future, just unbelievable, unparalleled.

Now, others maybe haven't been as tested as much.

But he's done this under fire three times.

And what he did on Saturday night was really quite remarkable in the following way.