"And, for all Haberman’s success in demystifying Trump, at times she seems to vest him with eerie power."

"In interviews, she has often invoked the children’s book 'Harold and the Purple Crayon' to illustrate Trump’s peculiar blurring of fact and fantasy. The tale concerns a boy named Harold who goes for a walk in the evening and draws things from his imagination, including an entire city, with his enchanted crayon. 'What Trump tries to do,' Haberman told me, 'is create realities for himself and everyone else.'... Toward the end of our meeting, Haberman told me that she is superstitious. She was wearing an evil-eye bracelet. Another evil eye was in her pocket. 'I just have totems,' she said..."

From "Maggie Haberman, the Confidence Man’s Chronicler/During the Trump era, Haberman became an avatar of journalism’s promise as well as of its failures. She sees herself as a demystifier" by Katy Waldman (The New Yorker).

"I mentioned her well-documented fear of flying.... Trump, apparently, does not get fazed by planes: on Air Force One, Haberman said, he’d sometimes continue talking during rocky landings, while reporters slid around on their seats. Trump’s insistence on taking unnecessary flights 'kind of goes to what he will sublimate in the service of something else,' Haberman said. The former President once told her that he found air travel 'spooky.' Haberman’s own sense of Trump’s spooky potency continues to shape her coverage.... 'Trump is growing visibly with his speech and delivering some adlibs,' she wrote.... (At one point in our conversation, she told me that he 'regenerates.')"