This is funny. I'm afraid we gotta hand it to Ross here.
ROSS DOUTHAT: --President-- Mr. President. You have had the most charmed and remarkable life of any American in my entire lifetime, and you are telling me that before the judgment throne of God you couldn't find it in your heart to forgive some of your enemies? After all that's been given to you? Come on. Help me out here.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I mean, it's such an easy answer. All I have to do is say, "Yes, I can."
ROSS DOUTHAT: I-- I, again, I don't think it's an easy answer--
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Honestly, Ross, can I-- can I be honest--
ROSS DOUTHAT: --that's why I asked it. Yes.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I probably cannot do that, no, because I do hate some of my enemies and I always will.
ROSS DOUTHAT: Lots of presidents are remembered with a single line, "He freed the slaves." "He won the Cold War." A hundred years from now while you're working out your situation in purgatory what is the line that your presidency is remembered with?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: That I made America great again.
Only a little bit, as he didn't think this would be a tough one for Trump to lie through, but the purgatory line is funny.
