{"id":101629,"date":"2016-07-18T13:16:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T21:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101629"},"modified":"2016-07-18T13:16:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T21:16:03","slug":"great-article-on-donald-trumps-motivations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101629","title":{"rendered":"Great Article On Donald Trump’s Motivations"},"content":{"rendered":"

McKay Coppins writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

From political power brokers to the entire island of Manhattan, a varied cast of taunting insiders has inadvertently driven Donald Trump\u2019s lifelong revenge march toward the White House. This is what it\u2019s like to be one of them.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump stood on a debate stage in downtown Detroit, surrounded by haters he was determined to dispatch: Liddle Marco to his right, Lyin\u2019 Ted to his left, Megyn Kelly at the moderator\u2019s table straight ahead, and \u2014 somewhere out there, in a darkened living room 1,500 miles away \u2014 me.
\nAbout 30 minutes into the debate, Kelly asked Trump to respond to a recent BuzzFeed News report about his position on immigration.
\n\u201cFirst of all, BuzzFeed?\u201d Trump said, waving an index finger in the air. \u201cThey were the ones that said under no circumstances will I run for president \u2014 and were they wrong.\u201d My phone lit up with a frenzied flurry of tweets, texts, and emails, each one carrying variations of the same message: This is all your fault.
\nTrump was referring to a profile I\u2019d written two years earlier in which I chronicled a couple of days spent inside the billionaire\u2019s bubble and confidently concluded that his long-stated presidential aspirations were a sham. He had tweeted about me frequently in the weeks following its publication \u2014 often at odd hours, sometimes multiple times a day \u2014 denouncing me as a \u201cdishonest slob\u201d and \u201ctrue garbage with no credibility.\u201d Breitbart published an \u201cEXCLUSIVE\u201d with Trump and his employees claiming I\u2019d boorishly harassed various women during my brief stay at his Palm Beach estate Mar-a-Lago. (\u201cI don\u2019t know how to say it \u2014 he was looking at me like I was yummy,\u201d complained one hostess named \u201cBianka Pop.\u201d) There were a lot of things about Trump\u2019s wrathful, wounded reaction that seemed weird at the time, but in retrospect, the weirdest was that it never really ended; for two years, Trump continued to rant about how I\u2019m a scumbag or a loser or \u201cjust another phony guy.\u201d
\nTrump\u2019s performative character assassination led to plenty of teasing from friends and colleagues about how I had inadvertently goaded Trump into running. But as his campaign gained traction, the tone started to curdle into something more\u2026hostile. Once, after discussing Trump\u2019s latest outrage on cable news, the host grumbled to me, \u201cWon\u2019t it be great when Donald Trump becomes president because you wrote a fucking BuzzFeed article daring him to run? I mean, won\u2019t that be fucking fantastic?\u201d I mentioned to former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett that Trump\u2019s candidacy had me yearning for a new beat. \u201cSo, wait a second, you get all of us into this, and now you decide it\u2019s beneath you?\u201d he demanded. \u201cNo, you stay \u2018til it\u2019s fucking over. The whole thing. You stay here with the rest of us until it\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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