Susan Glasser

like to focus on foreign policy.

They like to focus on legacy building.

Donald Trump, he's been out there musing about how he's not going to get into heaven and who can get me into the pearly gates.

So this is a guy, he's not raising the east wing of the White House and building himself a grand white marble palace in the sky if he didn't have a focus right now on his legacy in America.

all gold capital letters.

I think that's part of it, that he wants to focus on that.

Foreign policy is also an area where our very unconstrained presidents really are unconstrained, and especially over the recent decades.

You have seen Congress cede what role it did have largely in foreign policy to the executive branch.

And so it's where you see the most undistilled, kind of unconstrained power of a president, any president, and in particular this president.

He also relishes the statecraft of, you know, it's just, you know, the optics of it's just sort of me and some other great strongman making the world and shaping it according to the power of our will and our leadership.

And so it very much plays into his vision of what an American president should be and should do.

Now on Israel and Gaza, wait until people find out that actually there is not long-term peace in the Middle East, because I hate to break it.

You know, I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but actually Donald Trump has not achieved long-term peace in the Middle East.

Hey, I'm all in favor of the Tim Miller twinkle in the eye program.

Okay, let's just leave it at this.

I would feel more confident in that theory of the case when, and I don't exclude that that will happen, the U.S.

Congress actually becomes a legislative separate branch of government again and, you know, stands up for itself.

So, you know... Totally fair.

Telling...

You know, the one act of defiance is to pass essentially a meaningless law that orders the Justice Department to release documents that they could have done so at any moment without this law, and then never seeing a word when the executive branch of the United States has usurped the most basic power that you have in the Constitution, which is, you know, the appropriation and spending of funds.