Trump Is No ‘Tough Guy’

The pattern goes back to childhood. Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio describes young Donald as “a bullying and out-of-control little boy” so embarrassing to his father that at age 12, he was pulled out of his private school in Queens and shipped off to the brutal New York Military Academy, where, far from reforming, he latched onto an abusive drill sergeant as a role model. He’s been a bully ever since. And like most bullies, he likes to pick on people he thinks are too weak to fight back.