I spoke to Michael Kruse for his POLITICO Magazine piece on former President Trump’s gift for image-making in light of the iconic photos from this weekend’s attempt on his life.
“Visuals matter more than words,” former House speaker and Trump ally Newt Gingrich wrote in his book called Understanding Trump in 2017. “How you look is more important than how you sound,” Stone told me in 2018. “He has,” Republican strategist Liam Donovan said to me on Sunday, “a handful of instincts and impulses that have served him well, but the primacy of aesthetics and image-making really is the core.”
Read the full piece here.