New York Magazine has published a lengthy profile that is … well, quite frankly, more of the same. Like the former piece, these latest paints a picture of a former president turned presidential candidate who spends most of his days playing golf and being adulated by supporters at his private Florida club.
However, one excerpt that is particularly telling into Trump’s psyche involves his favorite film, Sunset Boulevard, which is about washed-up former silent-film star Norma Desmond, who draws a struggling screenwriter into her deranged fantasy world as she dreams of making a triumphant return to the spotlight.
Trump calls the film “one of the greatest of all time,” and apparently used to not only play it for guests aboard his 727 back in his free-wheeling businessman days, but would even hold screenings of it at Camp David for White House staff.
That said, it’s not hard to imagine why Trump identifies with Sunset Boulevard, particularly as his own life has begun to mirror the story of the film’s protagonist.
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