Donald Trump And The Existential Fear Of Being A Loser
4 min readSep 24, 2020
There was an article in the days before the 2016 election that described Trump, sitting on his plane, watching the coverage of the race and saying only “I’m going to win.”
That phrase — I’m going to win — seemed to me like the main motivator for Trump. It was the winning that interested him. The role of president, the opportunity to serve, the responsibility to the…