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What Drives Donald Trump? Fear of Losing Status, Tapes Show
[The Run-Up]

Michael Barbaro

THE RUN-UP OCT. 25, 2016

By any measure, Arsenio Hall was a Hollywood success: He had starred in popular films, packed houses as a stand-up comic and hosted a hit late-night television show bearing his name.

Donald J. Trump saw it differently by the mid-2000s. In his eyes, Mr. Hall was nothing.

“Dead as a doornail,” was his assessment of Mr. Hall in a previously unreleased interview from two years ago. “Dead as dog meat.”

Why such a harsh judgment? Because in Mr. Trump’s eyes, Mr. Hall had suffered the most grievous form of public humiliation: His celebrity had waned. His star had dimmed.

It was, in short, Mr. Trump’s worst nightmare.

“Couldn’t get on television,” Mr. Trump said with disgust. “They wouldn’t even take his phone call.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/us/politics/donald-trump-interviews.html?ref=politics