SCOUT· 50%59m·2026-10-12·News PoliticsI Know Just How Bad Trump's Decline Is About to Be
Kurt Andersen and Joanna Coles revisit the Donald Trump that Spy magazine spotted 40 years ago: a blustering New York celebrity who claimed he could master nuclear missiles in an hour and a half. Andersen explains why Trump was a joke then but became president, and why today’s thin-skinned tech billionaires deserve…
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