As a child, Donald Trump displayed both an all-consuming need for attention and an impressive knack for getting it. If you invited him to a birthday party, he’d show his gratitude by throwing cake. At Kew-Forest, the elementary school he attended in Queens, the faculty members he hurled erasers at were the lucky ones; he punched one second-grade teacher in the eye. “I punched my music teacher because I didn’t think he knew anything about music,” he recounts in The Art of the Deal. “Even early on I had a tendency to stand up and make my opinions known in a very forceful way.” Not surprisingly,
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