Perspective: 'Now that the Mueller investigation is over, the president isn’t likely to let it go,' writes marcfisher. Trump is never satisfied with just winning. He has to flaunt it, too.
By Marc Fisher Marc Fisher Senior editor reporting on a wide range of topics Email Bio Follow Marc Fisher, a senior editor, writes about most anything. He has been The Washington Post’s enterprise editor, local columnist and Berlin bureau chief, and he has covered politics, education, pop culture and much else in three decades on the Metro, Style, National and Foreign desks.
Trump already had won the right to tear down the building, but that was not enough. He had to keep hitting back at the preservationists and art lovers who had fought him. In his business life, Trump often refused to settle for good news, insisting on making big, antagonistic gestures to humiliate defeated opponents.
At moments when he might most be expected to “act with compassion, generosity, consideration and forgiveness,” as Tony Schwartz, co-author of Trump’s“The Art of the Deal” bestseller, put it, Trump instead resumed his attacks, showing himself to be “reactive, deceitful, distracted, vindictive, impulsive, and, above all, self-absorbed.
To Trump, winning is not just about cutting down an opponent, but about showing off his victory to the wider world. For all his wealth and power, he has spent most of his life scrapping for respect and climbing back from adversity. At pivotal points throughout his career, his initiatives flopped, his finances tanked and his reputation sagged. Always, he asserted that he would fight to the end. Often, he pushed back hard at those he perceived as enemies.
But Trump prevailed and bought the property for a song after driving the price down by acquiring the beachfront land directly between Mar-a-Lago and the water and then threatening to build a large house to block the ocean view from the mansion.After Trump turned Mar-a-Lago into his club, he reveled in the accomplishment. He chopped down the estate’s hedges to give passersby a clear view. He invited celebrity guests such as Michael Jackson to draw paparazzi.
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