The soulless life of Donald Trump

Donald Trump's biographer delved into the soul of the now president-elect. Or rather, he didn't.

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Donald Trump: a man "with no interior life whatsoever"
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When Mark Singer set out to write a profile of Donald Trump for The New Yorker 20 years ago, he decided his objective was "to apprehend the person within the persona". In this, he failed. Or rather, he failed in the sense that he found Trump to be a consummate artist, a man with no interior life whatsoever, who seemed to live entirely in the moment. "He [has] aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury," as one of his acquaintances put it, "an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul."

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