Analysis of Trump's Presidency and Public Perception

If you could just grade... We always talk about the president.

You and I talk about the president a lot.

Yeah.

I know you have lots of different views.

How would you grade this past year?

I think, uh, uh, generally speaking, history

is gonna be very kind to Trump.

Crime,

immigration,

Middle East.

I don't know if he planned it that way, and I think there's some bumps and some

hard edges to it, but I think retrospectively, people

are gonna

look back and say,

"I'm glad he did this," or, "I'm glad he did that."

Why do you think right now, though, at least based on the polls,

he's as unpopular as he is?

The American people have a mindset that if you have an

illness, give me a pill and it goes away in 24 hours.

Some of the issues that are being...

For example, Congress has as much responsibility with

the

immigration issue as anybody. Fix the damn law. Fix it.

So

I think the American people have a right to expect more from their elected

officials, that's part of the game, but I also think that

he, to take on, that day that he sent those two

planes,

7,000 miles round trip or whatever it was, to wipe out

that cellar where they had all the stuff.

Mm-hmm.

Why didn't George W. Bush? Why didn't George

H.W.? Why didn't Clinton? Go right down the list.

Uh, not on my watch. Meanwhile, the threat became

greater and greater and greater.

The best I can say in answer to your question, Andrew, is I think history

is gonna be kind to him. Now, is it gonna be critical of some of the

things? Yeah, they are. They're gonna be critical of the fact

that he's selling

watches on television or, uh,

uh, the in- involvement the family has,

but that's noise. The big things, I think-