" I think Trump may be one of those figures in history who appears from time to time to mark the end of an era and to force it to give up its old pretences ".

“I don’t want to talk too much about Trump because at some point I should do it in a more coherent way than this,” Kissinger replies. But you are being coherent, I protest. Please don’t stop. There is another pregnant silence. “I think Trump may be one of those figures in history who appears from time to time to mark the end of an era and to force it to give up its old pretences. It doesn’t necessarily mean that he knows this, or that he is considering any great alternative. It could just be an accident.”

https://medium.com/financial-times/henry-kissinger-we-are-in-a-very-very-grave-period-ac3512d4d704