Originally posted by sonhouse
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all
An excerpt: His first interview with Trump
In those days, Schwartz recalls, Trump was generally affable with reporters, offering short, amusingly immodest quotes on demand. Trump had been forthcoming with him during the New York interview, but it hadn’t required much time ...[text shortened]... is sociopath to be president.
Just what we need, a narcissistic sociopath, just like Russia.
Let's see if we can make some sense out of the scenario you have touched upon, since you seem unable to treat anything with which you disagree with anything remotely resembling objectivity or even-handedness.
It is a near-universally accepted belief that Trump is a bombastic egocentric blow-hard--- I don't think even he would deny that this is an apt and accurate description of his public persona.
So we can conclude this is how he
acts.
But we only have the various reports from sundry sources on what he is in real life.
Critics attack his business acumen, latching onto every negative as though they ruin the whole picture, but as Bob Ross would say "Let's just make that a happy little tree."
The whole picture reveals that Trump must be one of the LUCKIEST sob's to ever walk the planet, given that all his failures are entirely a result of his lack of character and good judgement, and yet all of his success is just plain ol' dumb luck.
God, that I could be that much of a failure!
I digress...
Getting back to his penchant for self-promotion.
Here is his opportunity to wax elegant and long to a captive audience about all of the groundwork it took to make the masterful Trump what he is today...
and he passed.
A guy who lives to self-promote passing on an opportunity?
Whatchewtawkinbout Willis?
I offer a different perspective.
It is entirely within the realm of possible and plausible reality that Trump simply didn't trust the person asking the questions, and therefore wasn't going to put any ammunition in that person's hands.
Born salesmen, pitchmen never forego an opportunity for self-promotion; it's one of their strengths and weaknesses.
Trump plays chess while chumps like you play checkers.