COLBERT: Should coverage change of Donald Trump, once he's the president? Should it change its tone?

TAPPER: I think that our coverage follows his lead. And I think if he pivoted, as he claimed he would and —

COLBERT: Be presidential.

TAPPER: Was more presidential —

COLBERT: More presidential than anybody's ever been.

TAPPER: If he didn't send out nasty tweets about Nordstrom's or judges or go to the National Prayer Breakfast and talk about how bad Arnold Schwarzenegger's ratings are —

COLBERT: They're pretty bad.

TAPPER: They're pretty bad?

COLBERT: Pretty bad, yeah.

TAPPER: But if he didn't do that sort of thing, then I would be delighted, frankly, to cover the policies more. I mean, not that we're not covering them. We are covering the Cabinet nominees and the travel ban, but there's this whole other thing going on with this White House.