According to a video posted on MSNOW, on Friday 10, 2026, New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman shared new details from her book “Regime Change” during an MSNBC interview, describing a striking Oval Office scene involving President Trump.
During an interview on MSNOW, Maggie Haberman described a moment in the Oval Office when President Trump pushed back on a question about presidential power by presenting reporters with a printed list.
About fifteen minutes into the conversation, Haberman and her co-author had asked Trump whether he truly believed he was the most powerful president in U.S. history, since he had been making that claim publicly.
In response, Trump had his aide, Natalie Harp, hand reporters a printout he said came from a historian.
The document ranked history’s most notable one-name conquerors, including Alexander the Great, William the Conqueror, and Genghis Khan, and framed Trump as standing above them all.
In his words, Maggie Haberman said, “The basic premise of this printout was that Donald Trump is the most powerful man who’s ever walked the planet. And then it goes on to list history’s most notable one-name conquerors and monsters.”
Haberman later learned that the so-called historian was not a historian at all, but a former golf caddy tied to golfer Gary Player.
She said the moment stood out because it echoed the central argument of her book: that Trump remains deeply focused on projecting dominance, both to his own staff and to foreign adversaries such as Iran, even while other pressing matters demand his attention in the Oval Office…See More
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