Trump went not abroad in search of monsters to destroy, but let the monsters know that should they threaten America, he would rain MOABs down upon them.
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Three years ago in June, I drove into Midtown Manhattan, scaled a skyscraper, and was whisked into a corner office to conduct an interview with the highest-profile subject of my career.
There before me, sitting at a desk in the eponymous tower where his unlikely and uniquely American rise from real-estate mogul to TV star to world-historical figure would begin, was former President Donald Trump.