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Is Trump Changing The Presidency Or Is It Changing Him? 4 Historians Weigh In

A year after Election Day, NPR asked four historians what they think of President Trump, his tenure in the Oval Office so far and his impact on the nation's highest and most powerful office.
President Donald Trump talks to the media before he and first lady Melania Trump depart from the White House on Marine One on November 3, 2017. / Mark Wilson / Getty Images

A year ago Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, and the surprises haven't stopped since.

He promised to be a transformational president, to drain the swamp and shake up the establishment.

And he promised that being president would change him — saying that he could become more "presidential" than anyone except Abraham Lincoln.

NPR asked four historians for their take on how the presidency has changed Trump and how Trump has changed the presidency. Here are their observations on Trump, after 10 months in the Oval Office and a year after his election victory.

H.W Brands, author of biographies of Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore

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