Reject a New York magazine story who said his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 was nearly moribund just over a month after announcing it, Donald Trump subjected the writer to misogynistic slurs.
Olivia Nuzzi, Trump said, was “a wonky, unattractive job.”
The former president too called Nuzzi’s “fake news” story, insisted that “his ‘anonymous sources’ don’t exist (true with many writers)” and said, “I happily fight for our GREAT USA !”
The Guardian, however, has seen posts in which a veteran Trump campaign insider says there’s ‘definite stuff in’ Nuzzi’s article and, when told ‘time is catching up with us all’, replies : “TRUE”.
nuzzi’s story, The final campaign, under a pointed caption: “Inside Donald Trump’s sad, lonely, thirsty, broken race for re-election.” (Which doesn’t mean he can’t win).”
The article quoted numerous anonymous advisers, including one who said, “It’s not there. In this business you can have it and have it so hot and it can last overnight and it’s gone and you can’t get it back. I think we just see he’s gone. The magic is gone.
When these insiders were asked why Trump was running for the White House again, Nuzzi wrote, “Few…are certain of the answers.
“‘It sounds like a joke,’ said a former Trump loyalist, a former White House official. “It feels like he’s going through the stages because he said he would. “
She also said Trump was “sensitive to smallness” and compared his isolation at Mar-a-Lago in Florida to the plight of Norma Desmond, the character played by Gloria Swanson. on Sunset Blvd.a movie Trump is known to adore.
Nuzzi wrote of “a stranded star locked in a 1920s mansion, afraid of the outside world, afraid of being reminded that time has passed”.
Trump faces serious legal danger, since the Jan. 6 inquiry and four House referrals to the Justice Department; the department’s own investigation; an investigation into his electoral subversion in Georgia; investigations into its business and tax affairs; and a rape allegation which he denies.
Nuzzi also wrote that Trump, 76, sometimes leaves his resort – to go to his golf course in the town of Doral, Florida. There, writes Nuzzi, he “regularly meets an impressive and ideologically diverse array of political buffs, diplomats, and political theorists for conversations about the global economy, military conflict, and constitutional law — and I’m kidding. goes to play golf.
“He goes there, plays golf, comes back and fucks himself. He retired to the golf course and to Mar-a-Lago,” an adviser said. “His world has become much smaller. His world is so, so small.
Trump is still questioning Republicans heavily, although he now has a serious rival in the GOP national primary: Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida.
Nuzzi has made headlines multiple times with stories on Trump and his close allies, including, in 2019, a series of surprising exchanges with Rudy Giulanithe former mayor of New York who became Trump’s lawyer and is now in legal peril of its own.
Speaking to CNN On Monday, Nuzzi was asked how she thought Trump would react to her article.
“It’s like an 8,000 or 9,000 word piece,” she said. “I don’t know if he’s going to sit down to read it. I think he’ll probably just look at the cover, look at the headline and think ‘Hey, fake news’, and move on.”
Trump called the piece fake news, but he also resorted to abuse.
Writing on his Truth Social platform, the former president said he accepted an interview with “once very good, but now on his ‘last legs’ and failing”, New York Magazine.
“The reporter was a flimsy, unattractive job, known as ‘tough’ but dumb as a rock, who actually wrote a decent story about me a long time ago. Her name is Olivia Nuzzi.
Monday night, Nuzzi complied, but not with a written rebuttal.
Seemingly responding to Trump’s claim that she was “stupid as a rock,” the writer tweeted two photos of Trump at the White House in August 2017, during a solar eclipse.
Trump was not wearing sunglasses. In both photos, he stared at the sun.
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