This reminds me of that scene in "The Right Stuff" where that astronaut guy in sunglasses is cruising down the highway in a convertible with his wife on his way to Andrew's Air Force Base and he's bragging about how they are going to be really moving up the ladder now. The wife just sort of blushes and says it is he who is going to move to the top of the pyramid and not "they".
That is exactly how Trump would have done it.