What Trump Was Like Before 2016 According To People Who Knew Him

9. Mark Bowden – He’s A Dick

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The former writer for Playboy didn’t have much of an opinion of Trump after meeting with him for a piece on Trump’s comeback in the late 1990s. Bowden found the billionaire both vain and dishonest, with several of his stories not matching reality.

“Time after time the stories he told me didn’t check out, from Michael Jackson’s romantic weekend at Mar-a-Lago with his then wife Lisa Marie Presley (they stayed at opposite ends of the estate) to the rug in one bedroom he said was designed by Walt Disney when he was 18 (it wasn’t) to the strength of his marriage to Maples (they would split months later),” Bowden wrote.