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Donald Trump may have had Hamlet in mind when he claimed presidents could declassify documents by the power of thought

Donald Trump told Fox News: 'Different people say different things, but as I understand it, if you’re the president of the US, you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified, even by thinking about it, because you’re sending it to Mar-a-Lago or wherever you’re sending it.' Picture: AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

It had not occurred to us that Donald Trump was a student of Shakespeare, but perhaps he had Hamlet, another tragic and deranged figure, in mind when he claimed in a Fox News interview that presidents could declassify documents by the power of thought. 

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” said Hamlet, meaning that personal perspective changes everything.