Donald Trump’s final scene didn’t go according to script
The former US leader saw himself as the executive producer of his presidency and he wanted to dictate the terms of his departure but in the end, he lost the plot.
Once upon a time, long before Donald Trump began fabricating narratives about his prowess and personal history, he wanted to be a movie producer. He admired old-school Hollywood producers such as Darryl F. Zanuck and Cecil B. DeMille, and considered attending film school in Los Angeles.
Trump’s father marched him into the family real estate business instead. But Trump never lost his fascination with showmanship or his fixation with occupying centre stage. What he decided to do, he later told me, was to “put show business into real estate.”
