Swan: [Donald Trump] is playing now for history. He wants to be a sort of one-word figure of history in the way that we think of Napoleon. He was almost ecstatic about being in his company.
"Just his appetite for risk and his relative lack of interest in domestic politics, he's playing now for history. He wants to be a sort of one-word figure of history in the way that we think of it. When he sat across from us in the Oval Office, if you get the book, you'll see the scene and we don't have enough time for me to explain it, but for him to lean back and sort of read out the name Napoleon with relish as a comparison that he was almost ecstatic about being in his company, that was one of the things that really struck me."
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Swan: [Donald Trump] is playing now for history. He wants to be a sort of one-word figure of history in the way that we think of Napoleon. He was almost ecstatic about being in his company.
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