What Drives Donald Trump? Fear of Losing Status, Tapes Show
As I started to read this--I thought of what he said about John McCain--he thought McCain was a loser because he was captured. It is a pattern--The limelight is his adrenaline--no matter what he has to say or do.
What Drives Donald Trump? Fear of Losing Status, Tapes Show
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/us/politics/donald-trump-interviews.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
[The Run-Up]
Michael Barbaro
THE RUN-UP OCT. 25, 2016
Recordings of Donald J. Trump reveal a man who is fixated on his own celebrity, anxious about losing his status and contemptuous of those who fall from grace. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times
By any measure, Arsenio Hall was a Hollywood success: He had starred in popular films, packed houses as a stand-up comic and hosted a hit late-night television show bearing his name.
Donald J. Trump saw it differently by the mid-2000s. In his eyes, Mr. Hall was nothing.
“Dead as a doornail,” was his assessment of Mr. Hall in a previously unreleased interview from two years ago. “Dead as dog meat.”
Why such a harsh judgment? Because in Mr. Trump’s eyes, Mr. Hall had suffered the most grievous form of public humiliation: His celebrity had waned. His star had dimmed.
It was, in short, Mr. Trump’s worst nightmare.
“Couldn’t get on television,” Mr. Trump said with disgust. “They wouldn’t even take his phone call.”........................................
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