““To all outward appearances, Trump had just been brutally dispatched—his dignity snatched away from him, his foray into politics swiftly cut short, the preening, grasping interloper who had barged into a world where he didn’t belong sent crawling back to his rightful station: a tawdry world of bimbos, pink marble, reality TV, and “Page Six.” This is what all of Washington understood to have happened, for years afterward: Trump had made another of his absurd periodic displays of pretending to contemplate a run for president, ventured too far in his quest for publicity, and suffered a terminal humiliation. Now the universe had snapped back into balance and ejected him. Only that wasn’t what had happened at””
![“I said this man [Donald Trump] is peeling back the onion of White civility; and every level of that onion that he peels back, more and more of the nakedness of rancor and hate and bitterness is coming up out of the followers. This is one of the most interesting of all of the political presidential…” quote by Louis Farrakhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a2a/louis-farrakhan-1264_bitterness_i-said-this-man-donald-trump-is-peeling_1508140.jpg)
![“[Donald Trump] ran an extraordinarily unconventional campaign and it resulted in the biggest political upset in perhaps modern political history. American history.” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e2a/barack-obama-17_american-history_donald-trump-ran-an-extraordinarily-unco_2198538.jpg)
