Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

Mr. Trump Is Ready for His Close-Up. Always.

He's the world's biggest movie star, and don't you ever forget it. He won't.

June 9, 2016 at 9:00 AM UTC

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

He's got some scores to settle.
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Donald Trump tapped my arm as we flew to Los Angeles on his jet and, between bites of Oreos, confided a little something: “Clint Eastwood is the greatest star ever,” he said. “All those Sergio Leone westerns. Nobody was cooler.”

This wasn’t entirely true, I suspected. Deep down inside, Trump has always believed that he’s the greatest star who has ever existed.