Why Donald Trump is the way it is, according to your biographer

In an interview to the site survey, the journalist Marc Fisher disassembled the Trump phenomenon and the lessons that this experience can bring to Brazil and the world

– "Make America great again," a provocative motto, daring and slightly presumptuous, but it helped the billionaire Donald Trump to win the unimaginable: to be elected President of the United States After a surprising presidential run in 2016.

The feat is historic. Fond of the spotlight, your mere candidacy caused weirdness and was a laughing stock, especially among more experienced politicians in Washington. However, one by one, Trump knocked down opponents and consolidated as indicated the Republican Presidency, albeit with no experience in politics and even with their air of celebrity.

Since then, the world watches the entrepreneur's management with attention and monitor a movement that promises to endure: the rise of non-politicians in the public sphere. Wherever you look, your personality analysis and its policies are disclosed by specialists of all sorts, psychologists and social scientists. All with the goal of trying to find explanations for the phenomenon Trump.

But they are not simple, but the result of factors that involve especially the populist wave that strengthened in recent years around the world, always leveraged by anti-globalista feeling. In the case of Trump, adds, the taste for the spotlight, the aggressive style of leadership and obstinacy.

But, after all, who is Donald Trump? What are your biggest influences? What motivates you? What lessons the Brazil and other countries can learn from this experience? The EXAMINATION site sought answers in a telephone interview with who knows the American President: your biographer, Marc Fisher, political editor of The Washington Post (WaPo).

Fisher, along with Michael Kranish, also from the WaPo, and a team of 20 journalists, spent the last year interviewing dozens of people (the entrepreneur, inclusive) to write "Revealing Trump: the story of ambition, ego and power of the entrepreneur-turned-President" ( now on sale in Brazil) and assemble a portrait of your personality.

TEST site-since the Manager announced your candidacy, we saw thousands of analyses of personality to your respect. Who, after all, is Donald Trump? And how is it different than Trump President?

Fisher- Is no different. The behavior he has shown as President is absolutely predictable and follows the pattern he has established for 40 years as an entrepreneur.

Is a style and a personality completely unlike anything we've seen in other Presidents of the United States. Trump is a narcissist devoted to promoting your own personality, your ego to make a mark. And this is a first presidential level.

And he is unique in different ways: as you think you always win (and Trump, that's what matters), as he lives in the moment. Don't care about the past and no plans for the future, all you think about is winning in this. In addition, it demonstrates a few values or principles that do not involve him being on top. That's how he conducted his business all my life and this is how it governs.

EXAM-Donald Trump is a complex man, hard to read and your book shows how it is the result of different influences. Who were the largest of them?

Marc Fisher- Well, I think there are two people who were the largest. First, your father, Fred, a businessman who also had a taste for advertising and the media.

With him, Trump learned about business and how to create a consumer demand for your brand. This idea of using your character and personality as mark came from the father. However, he also saw how a man who had no ambition, so sometimes I thought Fred wasn't strong enough.

That strength and aggressiveness in the business world and your behaviour were learned with another mentor, lawyer Ray Cohn, who represented Senator McCarthy in 50 years, in times of persecution against the Communists.

Cohn became one of the greatest directors of Trump. Taught him to jump over the press with aggressiveness, trying to win it at any cost and advertising to sell their businesses and ideas. It was also him who Trump went on to use the justice for your benefit, processing, refusing to pay bills, pressing who criticized.

Exame – Their political movements are difficult to interpret. If you could place him in a political spectrum, which would place him?

Fisher- Ideologically, he is incoherent. Tends to be vaguely liberal, but not sticks to no vision specifies, does what you think it takes to win. Trump your party affiliation changed six times, and since last year come pretending to be conservative, despite its central position as President be anything but conservative.

The idea of the wall on the border with Mexico, for example, is deeply opposed to internationalism we see Republican in recent years. Its position regarding trade is also contrary to Republican tradition. When you talk about social issues, sounds like a liberal Democrat.

Already in topics such as diplomacy and economy, Trump has little knowledge about them, then, takes the stance that his aides consider the most popular.

EXAMINATION-In a recent article, you talked about Trump have built your leadership over uncertainties, using this as a tool to keep the banks open in your management. What's your style and how it is applied in the White House?

Fisher- Trump likes to be startling, provocative, to dominate the narrative in the press. During your life, he saw your success from the perspective of marketing Wizard that he is, and he is a genius at that point.

Trump pays little attention to the day-to-day business as well as it does in politics. On the other hand, are interested in image, has a huge ability to read what is going on, a good understanding of what people expect of him and can deliver it. His desire to please others and have them showing your adoration for him is almost childish. And that's what's driving their decisions as President.

He is someone who does not have an ideological background and don't know much about the principles of policy-making and relies on his instincts. And he said this clearly in one of our interviews, about how to make decisions according to your intuition. Want to absorb public positioning and administering the country according to your perception.

– EXAMINATION within six months of the Presidency of Trump, what was your biggest surprise?

Fisher- I can't say that there is some kind of surprise. I mean, he even tries to surprise, but the reality is that your behavior is consistent that he demonstrated throughout your life: see a situation and tries to emerge victorious.

Now, something being different than we imagined is that he doesn't really understand the difference between Government and business. Trump told us several times that he intended to run the country like a company, but now is realizing that things don't work that way and he doesn't have the authority to send in people.

The power of the President is that of persuasion, something he never struggled, and we see that the defeats he suffered recently were the result of it. The votes of your health project to repeal the Obamacare, for example.

Their policies don't come out of the place because he's not persuaded anyone, are voters, the opposition or the media. This always sounded too aggressive. And good Presidents can walk through persuasion, but this is something that Trump has never been able to.

Exame – the phenomenon behind Trump, that "trumpismo" is not something that will happen anytime soon. That legacy can we expect from your Ascension to the Presidency?

Fisher- It's a little early to talk about legacy, but today he looks like someone who's trying to fold the foundation that led him to the Oval Office. So, we see how a person who tries to keep the base intact, but that made few efforts to try to win over the people and other sources of power in Washington.

Now, a huge legacy that is developing is the dramatic damage in the levels of influence of the United States in the world. And that's something that doesn't make you happy, of course. However, to pose as a nationalist, a populist, he must use the antagonism from other countries to your advantage.

But, I think what we will find is what we saw in Nixon (President of the United States between the years of 1969 and 1974): your basis will fortify itself and the voters will continue supporting him, but everyone else will be rejected and ignored by him.

EXAMINATION-In Brazil, we keep our eyes open for the Presidency of Trump, speculates that one of the possible candidates of the presidential elections of 2018 is a person with the same profile: entrepreneur, aura of celebrity, little experience in public office, private management discourse in the public sphere.

Fisher- I think what is important to understand in Trump, and that can be applied not only to Brazil, but other countries who are living this the rise of non-politicians, is that there is a confusion between celebrity and politics. And Trump really exercises your power as President with the understanding that it will be judged as a celebrity.

He has said things that would end with any politician in an election, but the Americans judge him that way and forgive just like they do with the famous. We hope celebrities behave badly, because they still amuse us. And Trump, as the star of reality show that is, understood that and managed to become almost "Bulletproof", despite your bad behavior.

EXAM-You expect him to win the election of 2016?

Fisher- Yes, believed it all the time. People called me being stupid, laughed, but for me it was clear that Trump would win, especially for this "Bulletproof cloak" of celebrity he has and then I realized that everything what had shocked people in your behavior does not hurt your candidacy.

Another thing that made me believe this win came after going to campaign events for Hillary Clinton and Trump. In the Republican campaign, I noticed a deep enthusiasm for him, his constituents wanted to see him in Washington in every way, wanted him to be there to turn things upside down.

Already in the events of Hillary, even among his biggest supporters, the reactions were lukewarm about your respect and your constituents have always known that things would improve with her as President. This difference in enthusiasm among voters persuaded me to see that he possibly would enshrine as winner. And this happened.