Trump addresses members of the press dressed as the Dauphin from Huckleberry Finn. “Was Twain’s Dauphin really the heir to the throne of France? Who cares? What matters is that he was a great American: someone with the courage to write his own narrative and make his own history. Someone with the guts to take risks to get what he wanted. Americans don’t want honesty from their leaders; I think the past 100 years have made that pretty clear. What they want is results, and a good story to go along with them. And that’s what I can provide, just like what the Dauphin provided Huck.” When a reporter pointed out that the Dauphin was eventually tarred and feathered for his swindles, Trump replied that it was probably the work of religious extremists “who have no place in this great nation, then or now.”