Trump and Me by Mark Singer

mind whenever I go channel-surfing, lest I be tempted to alight on CBS.

    *2 Trump’s admirers were not the only ones going nuts. One noteworthy dissenter was the former El Presidente de Mexico Vicente Fox: “I’m not going to pay for that fucking wall!”

    *3 This bouquet is unlikely to endure as Trump’s most judicious ad lib. Having inserted his foot in his mouth, he kept chewing until he was up to his kneecap. “He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured.”

    *4 Trump also concurred with Stern’s insight that “every vagina is like a potential land mine.”

My thanks to:
    Colleagues at
The New Yorker
current and former, including Roger Angell, Peter Canby, Cynthia Cotts, Amy Davidson, Bruce Diones, Jeffrey Frank, Ann Goldstein, Mary Norris, Brenda Phipps, David Remnick, Dorothy Wickenden, and Daniel Zalewski.
    Tina Brown, for the gift that has kept giving.
    For research assistance, Reid Singer (who is like a son to me). Also, Jake Lahut.
    At Crown, Tim Duggan and Will Wolfslau.
    Ian Frazier, Melissa Harris, John McPhee, Jeffrey Posternak, Jeb Singer, Betsy Singer, Timothy Singer, Paul Mailhot-Singer—each of you knows why.
    The many journalists who across the years have assiduously reported about Donald Trump, in the process potentially putting themselves in harm’s way, especially Michael D’Antonio, David Cay Johnston, Timothy O’Brien, and the great Wayne Barrett.

Mark Singer has been a staff writer at
The New Yorker
since 1974. He is the author of
Funny Money
and
Somewhere in America
. He lives in New York City.

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