Richelieu

 My wife told me that actor Tim Curry had his autobiography out. I said the only part I always see him in is as Cardinal Richelieu in the Three Musketeers. And I think the real Cardinal was a real tough, Machiavelli type of person. But he was a great advisor to Louis the XIV, the Sun King, and made France a world super power and developed the idea of the powerful nation-state. And a great leader always walks a fine line between a personal ego and the ego of the country, and the great ones always pull the country up with them. You have to think that at the time of the Sun King, the lowliest beggar in France thought himself higher than the King of England.

Which makes me think of Trump. Some people think Trump's an idiot, but I don't think so. He's got a great ego and a manipulative mind but he will never be greater than the sum of his parts. He gets his money from selling his luxury condos to sleazy Eastern European and Middle Eastern oligarchs and he surrounds himself with idiots. He will never raise the USA to greatness as all he cares about is increasing the bottom line of his bank account. 

Most presidents haven't raised the country up. The closest probably was FDR who surrounded himself with good advisors like Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, who truly cared about people of the country. It makes you wonder what Trump could do if he had an unselfish bone in his body.