Trump Dynasty, a three-part documentary that aired this week on A&E, features an interview with Reason Contributing Editor J.D. Tuccille, whose father wrote the first biography of Donald Trump (published way back in 1985). After seeing the final product, Tuccille wishes producers would have incorporated more perspective on the general business world Trump came up in. That would have made an already interesting examination of the current president of the United States that much more useful, Tuccille writes.
Trump really is, in many ways, an exemplar of the New York way of doing business—in the past, when his family was coming up in the world of real estate, but also continuing in the present, suggests Tuccille. It’s a world in which business people pay off politicians for permission to move forward with projects and for placing roadblocks in the way of competitors. And this is the world from which Trump emerged, and where he acquired the habits and attitudes he’s brought to national political life.
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