Justin Fox, Columnist

No, Trump Isn't 'Normal.' That's Sort Of the Point.

He created -- and conquered -- a brand-new category of politics.

January 17, 2017 at 6:53 PM UTC

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

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This isn’t normal. It’s a statement we’ve been hearing a lot since Donald Trump was elected Nov. 8. We may hear it even more after he is inaugurated on Friday.

It happens to be true! An orange-haired Manhattan real estate tycoon turned reality TV star with no political experience becoming president of the U.S. is in fact not normal, and Trump’s behavior during and since the presidential campaign has been pretty anomalous, too.