Trump and Me by Mark Singer, 108 pages
Donald Trump has been good to Mark Singer. Certainly, he called the journalist's 1997 New Yorker profile "a new low". True, he responded to the piece's reprint in a 2005 collection with the personal message, "Mark, you are a total loser! And your book (and writings) sucks!", adding the inimitable Trumpian flourish "PS And I hear it is selling badly." But the Donald's presidential campaign has now allowed Singer to triple-dip on the time that the two spent together as a result of editor Tina Brown's expert matchmaking.
To describe his subject, Singer likes a quote from an anonymous security analyst so well he uses it twice: "Deep down, he wants to be Madonna." Yet Trump's own comments are just as revelatory: "... the show is 'Trump' and it is sold-out performances everywhere." "It's always good to do things nice and complicated so that nobody can figure it out." "Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich." Singer sees these, no doubt correctly, as expressions "of a single theme: Trump. Me. Look."
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