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Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race - in a press conference attended by paid actors, in which he slandered Mexican immigrants -- he has dominated headlines, becoming the unrestrained id at the center of one of the most bizarre and alarming elections in American history.

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´Hilariously scathing´ Observer

New Yorker reporter Mark Singer´s blisteringly funny, close-up profile of President-elect Donald Trump - mogul, showman, braggart, unrestrained id and now leader of the free world - is the ultimate portrait of the man who has everything, except an inner life.

´Gets under the skin of Trump ... An amusing but also terrifying portrayal of a narcissist, with only a fleeting grasp of reality´ The Times

´One of the best pieces of writing about Trump ... a classic of the genre´ Vice

´Offers clearer insight than any of the detailed biographies written over the years ... very funny ... excellent at describing the disturbing strangeness of Trump´s existence´ Daily Telegraph

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A lot of laughs ... A viciously entertaining demolition of the branding savant with the peach pompadour who was to become the Republican party nominee for the most powerful elected office in the world Hari Kunzru Guardian

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Mark Singer has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1974. He is the author of Funny Money and Somewhere in America. He lives in New York City.

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