Most people who've paid attention to Trump over the years probably know about Maggie Haberman, one of the major NYT reporters covering Trump. In fact, Trump has really latched onto her. (There was a recent article, "Donald Can’t Quit Maggie.") She's been interviewed recently in conjunction with her new book, and this is a great one.
Maggie Haberman on How She Covers Trump Without Losing Her Mind
In a lot of ways, in addition to contextualizing a lot of his background, I did try showing the outtakes — the moments when he is not on-camera, the moments when he is figuring out what he is going to say once he gets on-camera. That moment in the January 6 committee hearing, where they showed the video of him recording what he was going to say to the public after January 6 and he kept saying, “I don’t want to say the election is over.” I thought that was one of the most revealing things they could have done about him because what he says between the takes is much more authentic to who he is.
One of the things I write about is that he sort of created the character of “Donald Trump” with Tony Schwartz in The Art of the Deal, but the book that he published later, Surviving at the Top, that was him, that was his voice. It was grievance and anger, and he described his life as “s#@t” and his marriage. It reminded me of his presidency.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022...-her-mind.html
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