Donald Trump Has Always Been Obsessed With Status—Even If He Had to Borrow It

In an excerpt from their new book Lucky Loser, Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig recount how an adolescent Trump craved undeserved praise and authority at the New York Military Academy, where he mysteriously rose through the ranks despite habitually shirking his duties. “His father was rich,” one classmate recalls, “and he was protected.”