Tell me you didn't read "The Prince" without telling me you didn't read it.

Machiavelli wasn't writing about self enrichment and general asshattery, he was writing about doing bad thing just because person in power has to do bad things and if you won't do those required bad things your rule will end up badly soon.

I do believe as a US president you still have to do bad things but not as bad as medieval prince.

Side note: "The Prince" is not that long you can find it easily online.

I haven’t read it ;)

> Tell me you didn't read "The Prince" without telling me you didn't read it.

Do you have to talk like this? How difficult is it to rewrite this as "I don't believe this is the message conveyed in The Prince."