Jonathan Swan: Trump’s Mindset in His Second Term Is ‘How Can I Be a Great Man of History?’

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SWAN: "Yeah. So, I mean, what we try to do in the book was tackle the big weighty issues. You know, we have deep reporting and coverage in the book of the profit making that the Trump family has been doing off the presidency. We go into ice, we go into foreign policy and whatever. But we also want to show, yeah, Iran, you know, Epstein, whatever. But but we also want to show what life is actually like inside the White House and inside the residence. And, you know, some of the more, I guess you would say intimate details of what that life is like. And the truth is uncomfortable for some people to acknowledge, but the president is spending an inordinate amount of his time and his mental energy on redecoration. He just is. It’s what’s on his mind. When Maggie and I walked into the Oval Office, finally, at the end of this process for an interview with him on March 16th, 17th day of the war with Iran, you know, Americans had already died. Service members. And what was on his desk? Photographs of maple trees. And he holds them up.”