will the president ever understand that the presidents we tend to wish to emulate and the ones we commemorate are the ones who simply don't govern for their base. they do reach out. they do surprises. nixon goes to china. harry truman from missouri who had a great aunt who wouldn't come to the white house because there was a lincoln bedroom in it integrates the military. lyndon johnson from a segregated state finishes the work of jim crow. those are the presidents we remember. ronald reagan ends the cold war after being a ferocious anti-soviet. and so i don't think he's capable of this, but if we had five minutes with him, i think what you want to explain is you and nancy pelosi and mitch mcconnell can fix up what people are going to think when we look at your oil portrait. you don't want us to look at it