Republican presidential candidate and former US president Donald Trump speaks to guest at a campaign event on December 19, 2023, in Waterloo, Iowa. Iowa Republicans will be the first to select their party’s nomination for the 2024 presidential race, when they go to caucus on January 15, 2024. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)
As he lumbers from trial to trial,Exuding great volumes of bile,He says, “Can’t you see:They’re picking on me.”Self-pity was always his style.
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”