This compulsion on the part of many writers to first acknowledge Trump's "faults" always frosts me. ALL human beings have faults, or flaws, or whatever negative word one chooses to use. ALL of us...not a single one is without flaws. One of life's greatest challenges is to overcome our weaknesses to live with goodness, honesty, decency, and kindness. There are times when we all fail, but a good person picks himself up and keeps trying. President Trump is a good person.
Back in his New York real estate heyday of the 1980s he went out of his way to make sure he was a fixture in the gossip pages of the NYC tabloid newspapers.