Mark Singer: ‘Trump will continue to shoot himself in the foot’

Twenty years after profiling Donald Trump for the New Yorker, the US writer reflects on the tycoon’s presidential election chances

Mark Singer is a staff writer at the New Yorker. In 1996, he was asked by its then editor, Tina Brown, to profile Donald Trump, an assignment that involved spending weeks in the property tycoon’s company. Following Trump’s successful campaign to be the Republican party candidate for president, Singer has now revisited these encounters in a hilariously scathing book, Trump & Me. On its jacket is a blurb from its subject. It reads: “Mark, you are a total loser! And your book (and writings) sucks!”

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