The Fearful and the Frustrated
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/31/the-fearful-and-the-frustrated
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n July 23rd, Donald Trumps red-white-and-navy-blue Boeing 757 touched down in Laredo, Texas, where the temperature was climbing to a hundred and four degrees. In 1976, the Times introduced Trump, then a little-known builder, to readers as a publicity shy wunderkind who looks ever so much like Robert Redford, and quoted an admiring observation from the architect Der Scutt: That Donald, he could sell sand to the Arabs. Over the years, Trump honed a performers ear for the needs of his audience. He starred in The Apprentice for fourteen seasons, cultivating a lordly persona and a squint that combined Clint Eastwood on the high plains and Derek Zoolander on the runway. Once he emerged as the early front-runner for the Republican Presidential nomination, this summer, his airport comings and goings posed a delicate staging issue: a rogue wind off the tarmac could render his comb-over fully erect in front of the campaign paparazzi. So, in Laredo, Trump débuted a protective innovation: a baseball hat adorned with a campaign slogan that he recycled from Ronald Reagans 1980 run for the White HouseMake America Great Again! The headwear, which had the rigid façade and the braided rope of a cruise-ship giveaway, added an expeditionary element to the days outfit, of blazer, pale slacks, golf shoeswell suited for a mission that he was describing as one of great personal risk. I may never see you again, but were going to do it, he told Fox News on the eve of the Texas visit.
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