We had the clip of [Donald] Trump saying: I'm not president of the globe. I'm president of the United States. [Ronald] Reagan would have never said that. [Dwight] Eisenhower would have never said that, because he would have said, yes, I'm president of the United States, but it's in our interests to be securing a world order.
The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.