James Poniewozik: “Try to understand Donald Trump as a person with psychology and strategy and motivation and you will inevitably spiral into confusion and covfefe. The key is to remember that Donald Trump is not a person. He’s a TV character.”
“I mean, O.K., there is an actual person named Donald John Trump, with a human body and a childhood and formative experiences that theoretically a biographer or therapist might usefully delve into someday.”
“But that Donald Trump is of limited significance to America and the world. The ‘Donald Trump’ who got elected president, who has strutted and fretted across the small screen since the 1980s, is a decades-long media performance. To understand him, you need to approach him less like a psychologist and more like a TV critic.”
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