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  9 Playboy interview, March 1990

  What’s going on? What’s going on?1

  Does my family like me?2

  Where are the women?3

  Why is this reporter touching me as I leave news conference?4

  What is in her hand?5

  I don’t know which microphones to hold6

  My hair – should I change it?7

  I’m sort of like, what am I doing?8

  I don’t want to be President. I’m 100% sure9

  1 Press conference, 16 February 2017

  2 Tweet criticising representatives of Victoria’s Secrets’ treatment of Kate Upton, 4 February 2013

  3 Tweet criticising opposition to offensive drawings of Prophet Muhammad, 4 May 2015

  4 Speech in Fresno, California complaining about wildlife protection rules, 27 May 2016

  5 Face the Nation, CBS, 6 December 2015

  6 Tweet about birds killed by wind turbines, 12 October 2012

  7 Deleted tweet, 31 May 2017

  8 Tweet promoting the Donald J. Trump clothing line at Macy’s, 13 December 2013

  9 Tweet referencing trial of Oscar Pistorius, 21 October 2014

  10 Victory rally in Orlando, Florida (referring to the electoral map), 16 December 2016

  11 On being fact-checked about his claim over electoral college victory, BuzzFeed, 14 February 2014

  I don’t know1

  Victoria’s Secret reps2

  Horrible and mocking cartoons of Jesus3

  A certain kind of three-inch fish4

  The guy with the dirty hat5

  “Wing bangers”6

  Covfefe7

  Really beautiful suits and cufflinks8

  Cold blooded murder9

  (Bloody, so red, so red, it’s beautiful)10

  Who knows what’s in the deepest part of my mind?11

  1, 2 Interview with Playboy magazine, 1990

  3 Tweet referencing time at New York Military Academy, 15 August 2013

  4 Speech after winning Michigan and Mississippi presidential primaries, 8 March 2016

  5 Interview with The New Yorker, 19 May 1997

  6 Statement on Facebook, 16 February 2016

  7 News conference with Theresa May, 27 January 2017

  8 Audience at Stornoway airport, 9 June 2008

  9 Transcript from unaired ABC Primetime interview, 1994, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 October 2016

  10 Press conference at Trump Tower following salacious unverified allegations published by BuzzFeed, 11 January 2017

  11 Meeting with the Washington Post editorial board, 21 March 2016

  12 Interview with Time magazine, 24 March 2017

  13 Visit to CIA on first day as president, 21 January 2017

  14 Tweet critiquing outfit choices of Miley Cyrus, 23 September 2013

  15 Vine posted while Miley Cyrus stayed at a Trump hotel, 29 August 2013

  16 Tweet, 14 January 2013

  17 Tweet, 21 July 2014

  18 Republican Party Presidential candidate nomination acceptance speech, 21 July 2016

  19 Interview with Don Lemon on how he prepares for debates, CNN, 28 July 2015

  You have to be everything1

  I can be a killer and a nice guy2

  I can be very military. High rank!3

  I can be more presidential than anybody4

  You gotta say, I cover the gamut5

  I am pro-life6

  I’m a people person7

  I’m a king8

  I am a champion9

  I’m also very much of a germaphobe10

  I’m a counterpuncher11

  I’m President, and you’re not12

  I’m a person that very strongly believes in academics13

  I am a defender of Miley Cyrus14

  (Miley, don’t let them get you down)15

  I am a handwriting analyst16

  I’m the world’s greatest writer of 140 character sentences17

  I am your voice18

  I am what I am19

  Acknowledgements

  A million thank-yous to Paula Amaral, Frankie Leong and Danny Kwong; to the Trump Twitter Archive, the Trump Archive and the American Presidency Project; to Gordon Wise and Niall Harman at Curtis Brown; to Hannah Knowles, Rona Williamson and everyone else at Canongate; and to Belinda Sears, John Sears, Tom Sears, Claire Chesser and Grace McGeoch.

 

 

  Robert Sears, The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump

 

 

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