He wasn't serving up these insults for effect-well, not entirely. And his behavior wasn't carefully calculated; it was tit for tat, and he likely would have said what he'd said even if no one was left standing with him. {This very lack of calculation, this inability to be political, was part of his political charm.} It was just his good luck that the Trumpian 35 percent-that standing percentage of people who, according to most polls, seemed to support him no matter what {who would, in his estimation, let him get away with shooting someone on Fifth Avenue}-was largely unfazed and maybe even buoyed by every new expression of Trumpness.
( Michael Wolff )
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