Trump attacks reporter after she revealed his 2024 adviser thinks 'the magic is gone'

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39. Thanks so much for this link!

It is indeed a brilliant article, and I learned a lot from it. The part about his wanting to be in the movie business and his fascination with the movie "Sunset Boulevard" was all new to me, for example.
. But this is the part that really jumped out at me:

The plan in 2016 was to prove the haters wrong by running, to poll well enough to be able to say he could have won, and to return to the fifth floor of his building where he filmed The Apprentice, his NBC reality show. But NBC killed his contract over his comments about Mexico sending rapists across the border. He no longer had a vehicle for the attention he required. He had to keep going.

I didn't know that NBC killed his contract for The Apprentice over that comment about rapists coming over the border, but it explains so much. When he lost that show, he lost a major avenue for getting his narcissistic needs met, and what was left? Running for potus, and then being potus! When he lost in 2020, he really had nothing left. This really explains a lot to me about why he became desperate and unhinged enough to go to so much trouble trying to change the outcome.

I found this article to be fascinating, and I have no trouble believing that he's as broken and pathetic as the author describes him.