When Trump sat with reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathon Swan for an interview in March for their new book “Regime Change,” he showed them a document from a “presidential historian” who argued that he was more fearsome and powerful than numerous world leaders such as Genghis Kahn, Attila the Hun, Stalin, Mao, Napoleon, and Hitler.
Trump proudly showed them the document that declared each of those leaders “however fearsome in his day, had no global reach. Their power was local. But (Trump’s) was not.”
These leaders “maintained power through fear,” Trump said, according to the book. “Who would ever do a thing like that? Right?”
Trump explained that he had received the document during a golf event honoring Gary Player. Haberman and Swan researched the author and found out it was Gary Player’s caddy — apparently a self-proclaimed, or Trump-proclaimed, “presidential historian.”
The caddy had discussed his theory with Trump over a round of golf in Florida.
Trump posted to Truth Social about the “presidential historian’s” findings on Thursday.
In addition, Trump pontificated on the matter of his power as president during an interview with an Axios reporter following the disastrous results of the war with Iran.
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