n a joint interview with Politico on Wednesday, Trump biographers Gwenda Blair, Michael D’Antonio and Timothy O’Brien gave some very interesting observations about the president-elect.
“This is all about him completely dominating the news cycles — the use of Twitter to distract from any real questions, emphasis on loyalty, vituperation toward anyone he sees who is disloyal or doesn’t toe his line, and his emphasis on conflict, the notion of setting people against each other,” Blair said regarding the president-elect’s post-election behavior. “Now it’s countries against each other. It’s news organizations against each other.”
The Trump experts all agreed that his combative behavior — picking fights with intelligence agencies, Rep. John Lewis, Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin — has also been quite predictable.
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D’Antonio followed this up by mentioning one of Trump’s biggest fears — namely, that he’s illegitimate.
“One thing I think that we have overlooked as we see Trump trying to delegitimize others is what I suspect is a feeling he has inside that nothing he’s ever achieved himself has ever been legitimate,” D’Antonio said:
