“Well, Charlie, living inside Donald Trump's head, you discover there's not many things in there other than a putter, a cheeseburger, a porn video, and somebody else's credit card. And it never extends very far beyond those items because he's focused always on the most basic and visceral of things, his various appetites, his various needs.
“You can usually understand him through two lenses, either self-aggrandizement or self-preservation, very little else.” — Tim O’Brien
Happy Sunday.
Tim O’Brien joins me on today’s “To the Contrary” Podcast for a deep dive into the shallow mind of the man in the Oval Office. Tim is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for The New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald,” and one the nation’s foremost experts in the dark recesses of The Donald’s cerebellum.
You can listen/watch right here, or: Watch on YouTube / Listen (and subscribe) on Apple/ Spotify / iHeart / RSS Feed.
We taped our conversation before Trump quoted Napoleon — who staged a coup, overthrew a Republic and named himself dictator — but it was very much on brand for the lawless narcissist, wasn’t it?
(Yes, we’ll have more to say about this later.)
Some highlights of my conversation with O’Brien:
Does Donald Trump even understand how money works?
Is Trump bluffing on tariffs? Or will he do it?
What has Trump done to our image in the world?
There is a reckoning coming.
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