Remember, remember the 15th of November: Donald Trump was announcing a second run for the presidency from Mar-a-Lago, his Greco-Baroque slum overlooking the Bahamas. Make America Great Again . . . Again? He had, through his own carelessness and vanity, just flattened Republican hopes in the midterms — but he still thought he could come back.
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The visuals that night were way off. His tan was watery. Trump looked hunched, hulking, heavy. His miserable post-presidential existence was written all over his face. “He just goes, plays golf, comes back, and f***s off. He has retreated to the golf course and to Mar-a-Lago,” one adviser told New York Magazine. “His world is so, so small.”
