A few blocks away from Trump Tower, at Michael’s, Michael himself was at the table telling me and two friends, other members of the media, about the various members of the media seated throughout the restaurant, as though that was somehow unexpected at Michael’s, the midday Midtown headquarters of the media. My phone rang. It was the president. “Is it gonna be a nice story?” he asked me. It would be a good story, I said. “Okay,” he said. For someone defined by his sensitive ego, he was at odd intervals and more often than not resilient when it came to the tenor of his media coverage, at least as it related to me. “If it’s not, we’ll try again next time,” he said.
Ich bleibe dabei, wer hier erstaunlich gut wegkommt, ist Donald Trump. Mittlerweile denke ich auch, dass das schon auch #Nuzzi s Absicht ist, aber eben auch, dass sie nicht klar hat, wie viel besser The President zum Rest der ganzen Figuren da steht, insbesondere der Autorin.