12. CANDIDATE TRUMP

1. Sam Roberts, “In New York, Black and Hispanic Strongholds Become More White,” New York Times, December 15, 2010, A17; Katrina vanden Heuvel, “A Populist Insurgency in New York City: Mayor Candidate Bill De Blasio Would Bring Needed Change to N.Y.C.’s ‘Two Cities,’” Washington Post, August 14, 2013.

2. “Trump’s Castle Is Shifting to Publicly Held Company,” New York Times, June 26, 1996, 2; James Sterngold, “Long Odds for the Shares of Trump’s Casino Company,” New York Times, March 9, 1997, 4; and Floyd Norris, “Worse Odds Than Roulette: Buying Trump Casino Stock,” New York Times, September 24, 1999, C1.

3. Jeffrey Toobin, “The Dirty Trickster: Campaign Tips from the Man Who Has Done It All,” New Yorker, June 2, 2008.

4. “Naked City,” Spy, December 1989, 32.

5. Frank Rich, “Who Doesn’t Want to Be a Millionaire,” New York Times, November 20, 1999, A13.

6. O’Donnell, 62; and Hurt, 53–55.

7. “Giuliani Gets 46 to Clinton’s 43 in New York Senate Race, Quinnipiac College Poll Finds; Voters Say No Thanks to Trump, Beatty, Buchanan,” October 5, 1999, https://archive.is/AnZ3T.

8. Corky Siemaszko, “Trump Mulling White House?,” New York Daily News, July 12, 1999, 4; Tracie Rozhon, “Fred C. Trump, Postwar Master Builder of Housing for the Middle Class, Dies at 93,” New York Times, June 26, 1999, B7; Joel Siegel, “Trump ‘Stump’ Fee—100 G,” New York Daily News, December 2, 1999, 4; Jo Mannies, “Trump Is Still Uncertain About His Candidacy Here,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 9, 2000, B9; Chrisopher Carey, “Success Guru Anthony Robbins Brings National Motivational Tour Here,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 9, 2000, C1; and Adam Nagourney, “Reform Bid Said to Be a No-Go for Trump,” New York Times, February 14, 2000, 18.

9. Donald Trump, “What I Saw at the Revolution,” New York Times, February 19, 2000, A15.

10. Corky Siemaszko, “Trump Slams Bush on Iraq,” New York Daily News, July 9, 2004, 7.

11. Peter Sanders, “Trump to Return over $17.5 Million to Shareholders,” Wall Street Journal, March 29, 2005, A2.

12. Henry S. Farber, “Overworked America: 12 Charts That Will Make Your Blood Boil,” Princeton University CEPS Working Paper No. 171, June 2008; Dave Gilson, “Why ‘Efficiency’ and ‘Productivity’ Really Mean More Profits for Corporations and Less Sanity for You,” Mother Jones, July/August 2011; Rick Ungar, “The Retirement Crisis Is Here for Millions—Income Inequality Now Set to Wreak Its Ugly Revenge,” Forbes, March 19, 2013; John Cassidy, “American Inequality in Six Charts,” New Yorker, December 18, 2013; and Jon Greenberg, “MSNBC’s Melber: Congressional Wealth Climbed While Median American Saw No Change,” Tampa Bay Times, February 11, 2014.

13. Deborah Schooler, L. Monique Ward, Ann Merriwether, and Allison Caruthers, “Who’s That Girl: Television’s Role in the Body Image Development of Young White and Black Women,” Psychology of Women Quarterly 28, no. 1 (March 2004): 38–47; Mike Featherstone, “Body, Image and Affect in Consumer Culture,” Body & Society 16, no. 1 (March 2010): 1193–221; Michael Wolf, The Entertainment Economy (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999), 79; and Ed Shane, Disconnected America: The Consequences of Mass Media in a Narcissistic World (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2001).

13. TRUMP THE TV SHOW

1. January Golab, “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,” Los Angeles Magazine, January 1996.

2. Brian Lowry, “Reality and Voyeurism Heading to Summer TV,” Los Angeles Times, February 4, 2000, F1.

3. Donna Petrozzello, “‘Survivor’ & the City: South Pacific Contest Ends in Central Park,” New York Daily News, May 19, 2002, 3.

4. Bernadette Wegenstein and Nora Ruck, “Physiognomy, Reality Television and the Cosmetic Gaze,” Body & Society 17, no. 4 (December 2011): 27–54.

5. “Economic Trends, 2000–2010,” http://www.decisionanalyst.com. Also, David Weil, The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014).

6. Annaliese Griffin, “A Profile of Matias Reyes,” New York Daily News, April 5, 2013; and Sarah Burns, The Central Park Five (New York: Random House, 2011).

7. Bill Carter, Desperate Networks (New York: Random House, 2007), 277–82.

8. From interviews with Rancic, Burnett, Trump.

9. James Traub, “The Anti-Trump,” New York Times Magazine, December 20, 1998, 62.

10. Matthew Gilbert, “‘Apprentice’ Isn’t Business as Usual,” Boston Globe, January 8, 2004, 1; Suzanne Ryan, “When Race Enters Boardroom, ‘Apprentice’ Really Heats Up,” Boston Globe, January 29, 2004, C1; and Jennifer Pozner, Reality Bites Back (Berkeley, Calif.: Seal Press, 2010), 165–68.

11. Gal Pennington, “Viewers Speak: Enough Already with Reality,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 16, 2004, F1; Brooks Barnes, “Martha Stewart Gets Low Ratings in Show’s Debut,” Wall Street Journal, September 23, 2005, B2; “‘Idol’ Ads Fetch Record Prices,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 25, 2005, 20; “Donald Ducks,” Chicago Tribune, October 21, 2005, 72; “Stewart Hoped to Let Trump Go,” Chicago Tribune, November 1, 2005, 16; Bill Hutchinson, “Donald to Martha, She Signs Off with a Veritably Homeric Paean to Humankind’s Most Trusted Friend, Hubris,” New York Daily News, February 20, 2006; “And Finally,” Chicago Tribune, February 22, 2006, 56; “Stewart’s Show a Mistake for All, The Donald Says,” Deseret News, February 22, 2006, A2; Bill Hutchinson, “Trump ‘Fired’ Up. Rips Martha for Blaming Him for the Failure of Her Show,” New York Daily News, February 22, 2006, 4; Bill Hutchinson, “You Moron, Says Trump,” New York Daily News, February 23, 2006, 10; Don Kaplan, “Poison Penn Calls Trump a Horror Show,” New York Daily News, November 25, 2012, 12; and Patrick Day, “Penn Jillette Speaks His Mind, as Is His Wont,” Los Angeles Times, February 3, 2013, D16.

12. David Pauly, “He’s Fired! Image Can’t Pay the Bills as Real World Gives Reality TV Star Trump the Boot,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 15, 2004, D2.

13. Christina Bikley, “Moving the Market: Trump Hotels Files Chapter 11; Donald Trump’s Stake Will Drop,” Wall Street Journal, November 23, 2004, C3; and David Segal, “He’s the Top; His Casino Business May Be Down, but Donald Trump Is on a Roll,” Washington Post, September 9, 2004, C1.

14. Timothy L. O’Brien and Eric Dash, “Now, Reality for Trump Looks More Like ‘Survivor,’” New York Times, September 24, 2004, C1.

15. “‘Lost’ Cause,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 11, 2005, D2.

16. From Trump’s deposition in Donald J. Trump v. Timothy L. O’Brien. See also Alex Frangos, “Trump on Trump: Testimony Offers Glimpse of How He Values His Empire—Worth Rises, Falls ‘with Markets and Attitudes and with Feelings, Even My Own Feeling,’” Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2009, 1.

17. Troy Graham, “Dismissal of Trump Lawsuit Is Asked: A 2005 Book Cites Sources Alleging ‘The Donald’ Was Not a Billionaire. He Says His Public Image Suffered,” Philadelphia Inquirer, May 19, 2009, B1; and Peter S. Goodman, “Trump Suit Claiming Defamation Is Dismissed,” New York Times, July 16, 2009, B5.

18. “Ivana Weighs In on Donald-Rosie Rhubarb,” St. Petersburg Times, January 25, 2007, 2B; Tom Jicha, “The View’s Ratings Are Coming Up Rosie,” South Florida Sun-Sentinel, January 15, 2007, D1; John Maynard, “Trump Fumbles, but NBC Still Wins,” Washington Post, January 10, 2007, C7; “Trump, O’Donnell Take Off the Gloves,” Chicago Tribune, December 21, 2006, 27; Adam Lisberg, “Donald Rips ‘My Nice Fat Little Rosie.’ Mogul Threatens to Sue ‘View’ Star in Miss USA Storm,” New York Daily News, December 21, 2006, 3; “Adding a Few New Barbs to the Crown; It’s Getting Ugly Fast as Donald Trump and Rosie O’Donnell Spar over the Miss USA Flap,” Los Angeles Times, December 22, 2006, E36; “Quick Takes: Ratings, Conflict Up with O’Donnell,” Los Angeles Times, December 23, 2006, E2; “People,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 29, 2006, A2; and Karen Thomas, “O’Donnell Leads Trump in Unpopularity Contest,” USA Today, January 9, 2007, D2.

14. “THE BEAUTY OF ME”

1. Tina Brown, “Donald Trump, Settling Down,” Washington Post, January 27, 2005, C1.

2. Tom McNichol, “The Art of the Upsell: How Donald Trump Profits from ‘Free’ Seminars,” Atlantic, March 17, 2014.

3. Ben Montgomery, “Trump U in Tampa: inside one-day real estate seminar,” The Tampa Bay Times, June 14, 2008.

4. Ben Montgomery, “Trump U in Tampa: inside a one-day real estate seminar,” Tampa Bay Times, June 4, 2008; Douglas Feiden, “Trump U Hit by Complaints From Those Who Paid Up to 30 G and Say They Got Very Little In Return,” Daily News, New York, May 30, 2010; Tom McNichol, “The Art of the Upsell: How Donald Trump Profits from ‘Free’ Seminars,” Atlantic, March 17, 2014.

5. John Chase and Rick Pears, “The Self-Styled Consumer Advocate Has Run Unsuccessfully for Office for More Than 3 Decades,” Chicago Tribune, February 10, 2006; and Matthew Mosk, “An Attack That Came out of the Ether,” Washington Post, June 28, 2008.

6. For a complete history see Matthew W. Hughey and Gregory S. Parks, The Wrongs of the Right: Language, Race, and the Republican Party in the Age of Obama (New York: New York University Press, 2014), especially 45–48. See also Ben Smith and Byron Tau, “Birtherism: Where It All Began,” Politico, April 22, 2011.

7. Jonathan Zimmerman, “Donald Trump, the ‘Birthers,’ and the GOP’s Moment of Truth,” Christian Science Monitor, April 26, 2011, 23.

8. Jeff Zeleny, “The Caucus: Trump Will Speak at CPAC,” New York Times, February 10, 2011. Quotes from Trump speech via YouTube.

9. Maggie Haberman, “Bill O’Reilly Pounds Birther Donald Trump,” Politico, March 30, 2011.

10. For “Part of the beauty of me” see http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-president-trump-weighs-sheen-palin-obama/story?id=13154163.

11. Tim Jones, “Family Portraits: Strong Personalities Shaped a Future Senator, Barack Obama,” Chicago Tribune, March 27, 2007; and Robert Farley, “Donald Trump Says President Obama’s Grandmother Caught on Tape Saying She Witnessed His Birth in Kenya,” PolitiFact, April 7, 2011.

12. Andrew Peyser, “Reality Intrudes on the Donald Show,” New York Post, April 28, 2011; and Josh Benson and Maggie Heberman, “FAQ: How Did New Hampshire Like Donald Trump,” Politico, April 28, 2011.

13. “Donald Trump to Release Financial, Tax Information at the ‘Appropriate Time,’” ABC News, April 27, 2011.

14. www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/donald-trump-poll-gop-plummet.

15. Ashley Parker, “Road to G.O.P. Nomination Has a Trump Tower Exit,” New York Times, September 27, 2011, 13; Sara Forden, Bloomberg News, “Trump Says He’s Decided ‘in My Mind’ to Pursue the Presidency,” Honolulu Star-Advertiser, May 2, 2011; “Romney Leads GOP Field as Trump Pops Up,” Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2011; Carson Griffin, Brian Niemeitz, and Lisa Lang, “Kids Ask Don: Chill on Bam,” New York Daily News, November 24, 2012, 19; and Tony Hicks, “Donald Trump Drops Suit Against Bill Maher,” Oakland Tribune, April 1, 2013.

15. A NOT-SO-INNOCENT ABROAD

1. Interviews with Balmedie residents.

2. “It is crucial we embrace”: Evening Express, April 15, 2006, 6; and Trump flies in to see golf venue: BBC News, April 28, 2006.

3. Gerard DeGroot, “With Extinction on Its Mind, Scotland Wants Population Growth,” Christian Science Monitor, February 19, 2004, 9; and North Sea oil: facts and figures, February 24, 2014, http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-26326117.

4. “How Jack of Clubs Came Up Trumps for Donald,” Edinburgh Scotsman, May 14, 2006; “Trump Tells McConnell of Scots Business Venture,” Edinburgh Scotsman, October 25, 2005; and http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/216107/0057771.pdf.

5. Martin Ford, “Deciding the Fate of a Magical Wild Place,” Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies 4, no. 2 (Spring 2011).

6. “Trump Threat to Ditch 300 Million Scottish Golfing Resort,” Edinburgh Scotsman, April 1, 2006.

7. Interviews with Forbes, Munro, Milne.

8. Interviews with Griffin and Forbes.

9. Interviews of the Fords.

10. Graeme Baxter, “Open for Business?: An Historical, Comparative Study of Public Access to Information About Two Controversial Coastal Developments in North-East Scotland,” Information Research 19, no. 1 (March 2014).

11. http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/committees/files_meta/802572870061668E802573C50042E4EF/291107isc.pdf.

12. Interview with Ford. See also Martin Ford, “Deciding the Fate of a Magical Wild Place,” Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies 4, no. 2 (Spring 2011).

13. Severin Carrell, “Heir of Stornoway: Trump’s Flying Visit to the Family Home,” Guardian, June 9, 2008. For Leverhulme’s adventures in Lewis see Roger Hutchinson, The Soapman (Edinburgh: Berlinn, 2003).

14. Fred A. Bernstein, “Trump’s Adventures in the Land of Golf,” New York Times, July 6, 2008, BU20. See also David Ewen, Chasing Paradise (Edinburgh: Black and White, 2011), 90–93, 106, 110–12.

15. Sarah Lyall, “Debate on Trump Project Takes the Low Road,” New York Times, May 4, 2009, A12.

16. Carolyn Churchill, “Trump Accuses Menie Estate Landowner of Living in Pigsty,” Edinburgh Herald, May 27, 2010; “Donald Trump Criticises Actions of Councillors Who Opposed Golf Resort Plans,” BBC, April 2009; Severin Carrell, “Donald Trump Issues Abusive Statement Against Golf Course Opponent,” Guardian, November 24, 2009; Severin Carrell, “Film-Makers Arrested on Site of Donald Trump’s Scottish Golf Resort,” Guardian, September 12, 2010; letters from attorney Ann Foulds to Christine Gore, Aberdeenshire Council, dated February 2 and March 9, 2009, http://www.andywightman.com/docs/faulds_gore4March2009.pdf and http://www.andywightman.com/docs/draftCPOorder.pdf; “Trump Accused of Buying Government Expertise,” Edinburgh Herald, September 27, 2009; and “Sarah’s a Trump Card in Donald’s Controversial Golf Development,” Edinburgh Herald, May 29, 2009.

17. Ewen, 193.

18. Andrew Bolger, “Trump Vows to Press On with Scottish Resort,” Financial Times, May 26, 2010; Trump letter dated April 17, 2012; and “Money Talks as Europe’s First £100M Course Hits Its Schedule for Opening,” Edinburgh Scotsman, November 16, 2011.

19. Alastair Robertson, “The Role of Police and Council in Trump Golf Course,” Glasgow Daily Record, May 16, 2016; Peter Woodifield, “Trump’s Spat with Salmond over Scots Wind Turbines Escalates,” Bloomberg, April 24, 2012; Rod Mills, “Donald Trump Pulls Plug on Second Scottish Golf Course in Wind Farm Row,” Glasgow Scottish Daily Express, February 13, 2014; and “Has Trump International Golf Links Failed Scotland?,” http://www.globalgolfermag.com/matthewmooreblogspot/has-trump-international-golf-links-failed-scotland/.