So, Aaron, there's this clip of Donald Trump from about a year ago that I keep thinking about.

Max, I think I know where you're going with this, and I'm so glad we're finally going to do an episode investigating why Trump thinks that magnets don't work underwater.

Wait, sorry, magnets?

You didn't hear this one? He went like on and on about it at a rally. I, okay, no, I'm thinking about a different moment. This was a Fox News host, Sean Hannity, trying to handhold Trump into saying that he

won't be a dictator.

Do you remember this?

Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight.

You would never abuse power as retribution against anybody.

Except for day one.

Except for day one. Except for day one. for he's going crazy except for day one

meaning i want to close the border and i want to drill that's not that's not that's not that's not

retribution i got i'm going to be i'm going to be you know he keeps we love this guy he says you're

not going to be a dictator, are you?

I said, no, no, no, other than day one, we're closing the border and we're drilling,

drilling, drilling.

After that, I'm not a dictator, okay?

That sounds to me like you're going back to the policies when you were president.

Okay, first of all, drilling, you can't just do it in a day.

I know.

That's also not what being a dictator is. No, that's a weird definition of being a dictator. Somebody's going to pull him aside and be like,

hey, dude. This is why I keep thinking about it. I think a lot of us are feeling torn between.

On the one hand, everybody from Joe Biden to Trump's own former chief of staff John Kelly warning us that Trump is going to be a dictator. But on the other hand, Trump mostly promised a more extreme version of his first term, which was very bad, but didn't end democracy as we know it, mostly because he was too inept a boss to build a team cohesive enough to do it.

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