OPINION | “I like to be accommodating,” Donald Trump wrote in his 1987 mega-bestselling book, “The Art of the Deal.” “As long as they want to shoot, I’ll shovel.”
The context of the quote related to Trump’s work renovating Central Park’s Wollman Rink, where he was surprised that so many members of the media wanted to come and take pictures of him performatively shovel some cement onto the ice rink. But it’s also the perfect quote to describe so much of who Donald Trump is, and his sadomasochistic relationship with the media — full of pleasure and pain, love and hate. |
OPINION | For years I thought that my mother was evil.
To the outside world, we appeared to be a normal family. My father worked two jobs, we usually went to Mass on Sunday and my parents seemingly had an ideal marriage. |
