Michael cruz, what can we learn about donald trump from reading the art of the deal . We can learn a lot, i think, and we should. When you are studying donald trump and i think everybody in this country should be studying donald trump, the art art of the deal was a foundational document and at this point it reads in wreck tropes backed like a Campaign Playbook. I think he is selling fantasy and he is doing that using hyperbole. Those are his words not mine. His words are that he plays to peoples fantasy fantasy. People may not think big themselves but they can still get very excited by those who do. Thats why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular and i call it truthful hyperbole. I think thats exactly what he is doing. Thats what he does. Ive worked for him his whole life. I wrote an article for the wall street journal and asked him if this was his playbook hiding in plain sight and he first was a