This thread is illustrative of why it's so hard to hang anything on Trump or Al Capone.
You can find things he said that are true, but you have to surgically remove them from the context in which they were uttered.
For instance: "As President I have an obligation to end corruption" seems to be true, until one sees that it was offered only as a rationalization for using taxpayer money to extort personal political benefit from a foreign country.
It is easier and more accurate to view Cheato as he is; the rightful kingpin of a massive Crime Family called The Trump Administration, than to try to envision his amoral, corrupt authoritarian intent as that of an actual American President.