"Observing him over several months on construction sites, in his Trump Tower office and on a private plane,
Mr. Singer concluded that Mr. Trump, in the period before he became a reality TV star, was a man 'who had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.' 'That profile,' [said David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker], 'got everything about Trump 20 years before he ran for president: the vanity, the casual cruelty, the outsized selfishness. It was all there.'... [After a NYT piece mentioned it], Mr. Trump wrote
a letter to the editor attacking Mr. Singer as 'not born with great writing ability.' Mr. Singer sent a mock thank you to Mr. Trump for the publicity, which apparently bumped his book higher on the Amazon book charts. He also enclosed a check for $37.82, 'a small token of my enormous gratitude,' he wrote. Mr. Trump returned the letter with an all-caps note at the bottom, reading, in part, 'MARK — YOU ARE A TOTAL LOSER.' Mr. Trump also cashed the $37.82 check, Mr. Singer
later said. Mr. Singer framed a photocopy of it for his apartment."
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"Mark Singer, Longtime Writer for The New Yorker, Dies at 75/He joined the magazine’s staff at 23. Among the subjects of his profiles were the magician Ricky Jay and a pre-politics Donald Trump" (NYT).
I'm sorry to hear that Mark Singer has died. You can click on my tag "Mark Singer" to see how he's come up here over the years. What a distinction to have Trump's "YOU ARE A TOTAL LOSER" in your NYT obituary. To continue the all-caps — RIP.
UPDATE: Upon publishing, I clicked my tag. I'm sorry to say that Trump is in every post.
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Why would you frame something for display from a person you hate? Mental illness.
Trump actually cares about the families who have young ones killed by Biden's illegals.
Trump was unlike the liars and thieves of Singer and Remnick’s fellow ideological putzes.
Oh, so that's the best Singer could come up with? Trump "had no soul" and was "Selfish" and "Cruel". LOL. Lets me translate: Trump wasn't a liberal/left Democrat. Cause that's what it all comes down to. Singer/Remnick would've loved to have call(ed) Trump a raciss/antisemite/homophobe - except he isn't.
Here's a clue: whenever some liberal/leftist starts using emo girl words to diss some one it means they don't like their politics. Because that's all they really care about.
How many of Trump’s detractors over the years have been afflicted with envy. “…unmolested by the rumblings of a soul.” Appealing prose perhaps, but what a pretentious and presumptuous thing to say about another person.
I am not going to dump on Trump when he has a difficult and important task at hand, but I will say this, we needed a jerk to stand up to the people who took our country away from us, people who conform to expectations are too easily cowed and manipulated, and if it doesn't work out, well, it was worth a try.
"What a distinction to have Trump's "YOU ARE A TOTAL LOSER" in your NYT obituary."
Almost as admirable a distinction as writing that he "hated Trump with a white-hot fury" in your obituary. Congratulations.
"I'm sorry to say that Trump is in every post."
I remember when Althouse was "exhausted" after Trump's first term, and so ready for the nice, normal, boring Biden administration.
Your TDS is showing again.
Trump wasn't a liberal/left Democrat.
Hold on, there, sport. Trump was a liberal pro-abortion, anti-gun Democrat back then.
(He was also one of Epstein's really good pals. You know, at the time.)
DD Driver- all sorts of people were pals with Epstein.
Facts show it was democrats in his hot tub.
Yes. Democrats like Trump (you know, at the time.)
That's a funny story about the check. And maybe Singer did capture Trump's character, but he (and every single person in his social circle) missed the real story about how that character can be a force for good in political office.
Much like the Trump of his feverish imagination, he was too narcissistic to see the essence of what was right in front of him.
Donald holds the Trump card.
I can understand why people find Trump unlikable. He doesn't try hard to be liked by everyone. That makes him different from most recent presidents. We need a president who cares less about making people admire him, and more about doing the things that need doing and which have been done poorly by more popular presidents.
Mark Singer's 1970's profile at least had the virtue of not being a political hit job. Nothing Singer said could come close to the derision of Trump dished out by Kurt Andersen of Spy Magazine.
Yes, the enviable color of perception is green. Naivety, too.
"Your TDS is showing again."
I think the Professor's comment is less TDS and more about this Singer guy having a fixation that all too many journalistas have today.
D.D. Driver said...(He was also one of Epstein's really good pals. You know, at the time.
Trump and Epstein were both New York glitterati. So of course there were pictures of them at the same parties--along with everybody who was anybody in New York at that time.
It's laughable that your type keeps pretending that means something. You can't bend your minds around the simple fact that almost everyone who knew Epstein, almost everyone mentioned in Epstein's emails, did nothing wrong.
We need a president who cares less about making people admire him,
So not a president that throws tantrums for not winning the Nobel Peace prize? Is that what we need?
Trump and Epstein were both New York glitterati. So of course there were pictures of them at the same parties--along with everybody who was anybody in New York at that time.
Nope. Lies. Not "everyone" in NY flew around on Epstein's private jet. But Trump did.
"the vanity, the casual cruelty, the outsized selfishness."
Oh. So like a medium-ish percentage of small business owners.
DeeDee Drivel Tuesday?
Wonder if there are any photos floating around of DD in the hot tub with Singer?
"I think the Professor's comment is less TDS and more about this Singer guy having a fixation that all too many journalistas have today."
You are correct, Known Unknown. It was only when I read the rest of the posts and didn't see any Trump tags that I understood her meaning.
I admit that I fly off the handle here, read the headlines then jump to comment without reading the articles, for example.
I apologize to all and Althouse for my misunderstanding.
My own Althouse Derangement Syndrome was showing.
52 years? One is reminded of Joe Mitchell who worked at the New Yorker for 58 years. For the last 32 years he went to his office every day and published nothing.
The early days of the New Yorker were full of wild characters. Can you really say that about Remnick's New Yorker? Sometimes it seems like behaviors that were once considered eccentric and crazy are now mainstream, and sometimes it seems like grayness, conformity, and "professionalism" have taken over every workplace. But maybe 30 years from now, our children will read accounts about how crazy the New Yorker was in the Tina Brown and David Remnick years. It's doubtful though. Prohibition encouraged people to go on week-long benders.
Trump was a constant amusing guest on Imus throughout all this time and struck nobody as evil.
Mr. Trump also cashed the $37.82 check, Mr. Singer later said
Arthur: I took the money. I mean, I'm not crazy.
What struck me in reading the New Yorker last month was how Jewish it is. Not only is the editor Jewish (not suprising, so was william shawn) but 1/2 of the article writers were too. And the attitudes/concerns are also usually Jewish.
Not shocking, after all, its "The New yorker". But the old New Yorker tried to be more inclusive and reached out to the rest of the country that wasn't Jewish. Guess they don't have to do that anymore.
DD - NO - Liar - Trump was never in his hot tub.
Democrats were.
James Thurber "The Years with Ross" covers the real history of the New Yorker.
Interesting that certain anti-Trumpsters who were AWOL during the Iran-US-Israel war are now coming back. Guess they loved Trump - when he was attacking Iran.
IIRC Spy Magazine derided Trump as a short-fingered vulgarian and that was about it. Nothing about being a felon or pedophile.
It was all there.
We don't see Trump as he is. We see Trump as we are.
The unpardonable journalistic sin of prematurely noticing Donald Trump is not like the other boys.
I propose a NYT obit add-on: Trump liked __ Trump disliked __
"Observing him over several months on construction sites, in his Trump Tower office and on a private plane, Mr. Singer concluded that Mr. Trump, in the period before he became a reality TV star, was a man 'who had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.'"
He could have said the same thing about Theodore Roosevelt. Some people are soulful contemplatives. Active people, the world's movers and shakers, usually aren't.
Oil dropping fast. At $76, just $6 more than before the war.
I know this is depressing to some of you, but maybe we'll get a meteor strike. It could happen.
Wonder if there are any photos floating around of DD in the hot tub with Singer?
You are fucking weird, bro.
"Mr. Singer concluded that Mr. Trump, in the period before he became a reality TV star, was a man 'who had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul."
No, he didn't conclude that based on observation. He just wanted to believe that for a long time, and it's an attractive turn of phrase for his fellow haters. He got paid to write what they wanted to read. That's all it is: money and approval. You know, soulful stuff.
DD - NO - Liar - Trump was never in his hot tub.
No one (other than Trump) knows how many hot tubs he was in with Epstein. They don't keep "hot tub" logs, dipshit.
BUT! They do keep "flight logs."
“Wonder if there are any photos floating around of DD in the hot tub with Singer?”
There are… you can readily see Singer, but DeeDee’s head would always disappear under the spa bubbles. The photographer had to perfectly time the shot.
D.D. Driver said...
Trump wasn't a liberal/left Democrat.
Hold on, there, sport. Trump was a liberal pro-abortion, anti-gun Democrat back then.
(He was also one of Epstein's really good pals. You know, at the time.)
No he wasn't. Epstien hated Trumps guts.
You should reall read more instea of watching MSNBC.
DD-Democreep - we have the photos of the men with Epstein with young girls and and young girls in hot tubs. All democrats.
Flight logs - Bill Clinton has the most.
D.D. Driver said...Nope. Lies. Not "everyone" in NY flew around on Epstein's private jet. But Trump did.
Sorry, I missed the part that was lies. Hundreds of people flew on Epstein's planes. Do you know nothing about how Epstein worked?
No soul, Selfish, Cruel = neutral?!
So he made it to 75, eh? Below average in every way, I see.
I'm unfamiliar with this writer's work, but, dollars to donuts, if he ever profiled someone like Angela Davis, Bill Ayers, or Cesar Chavez he would not find these character defects or, indeed, any character defects. If I were given the assignment of writing a thoughtful profile of Mr. Singer, I would discuss at length his troubling lack of insight into how his own prejudices shaped his world view and led to his divorce.
Gosh, if people hate Trump this much, imagine how they'll react to an actual right wing authoritarian megalomaniac who actively opresses the Left, rather than merely reducing their graft, and uses a weaponized government against political foes rather than just calling out actual crimes. That will be something to watch, with a large buttered popcorn while seated in a comfy chair.
You are fucking weird, bro.
And you are terminally butt-hurt. Bro.
"So not a president that throws tantrums for not winning the Nobel Peace prize? Is that what we need?"
Trump is fairly good at skewering entities for their hypocrisies, sometimes, even his own. Try not to take everything so seriously.
Credit where credit is due--the guy had bad TDS well before it was a fashion choice.
Trump was a better writer back then:
"Jeff MacGregor, the reviewer of ''Character Studies,'' a collection of Singer's New Yorker profiles (Aug. 21), including the one about me, writes poorly. His painterly turn with nasturtiums sounds like a junior high school yearbook entry. Maybe he and Mark Singer belong together. Some people cast shadows, and other people choose to live in those shadows. To each his own. They are entitled to their choices."
(italics) BUT! They do keep "flight logs.
Where did the Trump flights go to and from?
D.D.--you long ago provided us with "the goods", in the form of flight logs, on Trump's hitching a ride from Florida to New Jersey on Epstein's jet, along with his (Trump's) then wife, Marla Maples, in the 1990's. It proved just that. I have called you on it numerous times, and it's all you have. You seem to believe that because there was also some other guy on the flight, who at some point worked for Bill Clinton, that this is evidence of something nefarious. It's not. You know that, but keep repeating the claim. It is tiresome.
"...The magician Ricky Jay."
He's a writer for the New Yorker for 50 years and his big splashes were hating Trump and profiling Ricky Jay?
(I confess that until I looked him up I had no idea who Ricky Jay is. I now believe that I may have seen him in some movie or TV show at some point).
Ricky J was an amazing slight-of-hand artist and a uniquely, genuinely, weird person.
Did Trump cash the check or deposit it?
We found Patient Zero for Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Mark Singer can't be all wrong, can he? This one rings true if Iran is in your mind. It may not be the whole story -- let's hope -- but it sure seems to be a part of it.
---- the chairman and largest stockholder of a billion-dollar public corporation who seems unable to resist heralding overly optimistic earnings projections, which then fail to materialize, thereby eroding the value of his investment—in sum, a fellow both slippery and naïve, artfully calculating and recklessly heedless of consequences....
“ I'm sorry to say that Trump is in every post.”
ai: Throughout history, God has consistently chosen deeply flawed, ordinary people to fulfill His greatest purposes. Rather than waiting for flawless candidates, He uses human brokenness, past mistakes, and inadequacies to demonstrate His grace, ultimately proving that the success of His plan relies on His power, not human perfection.“
Notable examples: King David, Moses (not the one in the movie)
The apostle Paul, Peter (sword carrying) and Rahab, a woman a lady of the evening.
ai: “Romans 8:28 is a beloved Bible verse where the Apostle Paul reassures believers that God actively orchestrates every circumstance—whether good or bad—for the ultimate spiritual benefit of those who love Him.”
I’m stranded at Newark Liberty International once again. Weather this time. Or so I believe they are very virtually tight lip about it.
It's kind of amazing how you can see glimpses and flashes through history of how a trump truly became the form of the destructor they choose. Like people hated the guy in the 70s. They hated him in the 80s. But trump, he kept rolling on to become the Stat Puff marshmallow man. There is so some great story there but not one we will ever read.
Billionaire international businessman, iconic American celebrity for 40+ years, top-rated television show star, 3 time winner of USA presidential election...
I wish I was as "deeply flawed" as Donald J Trump.
Who hated Trump in the 70's, 80's or anytime before 2016? Democrat Party celebrities and talk show hosts had been asking Trump to run for president since at least the 90's. All the hate is because he finally ran as a Republican.
You think he'd be classified as "deeply flawed" and "hated" if he ran as a Democrat Party member? Ha! On the contrary, us racist Republicans would be constantly hearing about how many awards he won from the NAACP, Rainbow Coalition, and National Action Network.
Most of you have no idea how steeped you are in libtard Democrat Party propaganda, not even when it's coming out of your own mouths.
He was the writer behind the kimberlin fraud thats how i remember him letting him libel dan quayle got him a get put of jail card
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