Watch: Doris Kearns Goodwin Gets Big Hunky Entrance on The Late Show

“We’ve come to the portion of the show where I’m legally required to ask you about Trump!” Stephen Colbert said to his guest Monday night, bestselling Presidential biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin. Goodwin moments before had been welcomed out onto the sound stage at the Ed Sullivan Theater carried by four shirtless Abraham Lincolns.

Goodwin, who has written some of the most definitive texts on Commanders In Chief like Lincoln, Teddy, and FDR was asked if there has ever been precedence for the Trump phenomenon we’re seeing in the 2016 election.

“It has to do with periods of fear and anxiety,” Goodwin opened. “The problem with demagogues, which I think is the definition, is you make promises that you can’t necessarily keep.”

The Late Show host asked Goodwin the question that perhaps she would be best to respond to regarding the history of the Presidency, and if any candidate remotely resembling GOP frontrunner Donald Trump has been elected. Bluntly she responded, “No, I don’t think so.”

When asked what it would take to dethrone the Donald from the top spot, Goodwin gave a grim portrayal of possibility. She told Colbert, “Unless the establishment — or whatever’s left of it — somehow figures out somebody else to go against the figures that they don’t want in there, I don’t see who that could be right now.”

Watch the above video from CBS.
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