The world is waiting to see which Donald Trump shows up on inauguration day, the troublemaker or the dealmaker. He is trying on both roles for size, threatening revenge on those he regards as the “enemy within” and making nice playing footsie with new friends and old foes who are willing to cosy up to him. It’s all going swimmingly.
“The first term, everybody was fighting me. In this term, everybody wants to be my friend,” Trump said at a news conference on Monday at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort. “I don’t know, my personality changed or something.” That’s hardly likely. In Trumpworld, as Michael Corleone says, it’s not personal, it’s business. But there’s also a recognition that Trump earned his victory.
