President Trump seems to have figured it out: If he wants something done, he’s going to have to do it himself because most congressional Republicans suck.

In an interview Thursday with the Washington Examiner, Trump suggested he might do something like a “fireside chat” on national TV and read the transcript of his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which is now at the center of the ridiculous impeachment push by House Democrats.

"At some point,” he said, “I’m going to sit down, perhaps as a fireside chat on live television, and I will read the transcript of the call, because people have to hear it. When you read it, it’s a straight call.”

Great start! If Trump wants to expose the impeachment effort for what it is — it’s nothing more than a power grab by not just Democrats, but by permanent Washington bureaucrats — no one can make that case but him.

He is the one who was elected, against all odds, to do things differently for the American people. Now he is going to have to be the one to explain why he did something differently and why it was okay.

The polls showing half the country wants to see an impeachment and removal of the president are in all likelihood junk. When the question centers on Trump, they’re always junk. It’s demonstrably true that a very substantial number of people simply don’t like admitting that they support him, or, at the least, don’t hate him the way Joe Scarborough does.

What’s more, you couldn’t convince me that even 5% of the general public understands what it is, exactly, Democrats want to remove the president for. The average person thus far will have probably heard the spooky phrases “abuse of power” and “quid pro quo” and something about Trump asking a foreign country to investigate Joe Biden.

The average person will otherwise know nothing. He won’t know that the foreign country is Ukraine and that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election for the explicit purpose of hurting Trump’s campaign. He won’t know that Biden was uneasy about his middle-aged son Hunter’s involvement with Ukraine. The average person won’t know that by all indications, Trump got nothing out of the phone call with Zelensky, other than a lot of flattery. Yes, the White House held up millions of dollars in military aid to a very corrupt country called Ukraine, but there are perfectly legitimate reasons for it.

The transcript of the mid-summer phone call reveals a lot, but it doesn’t reveal any of that. Trump himself will have to be the one to lay it out.