Trump became a celebrity in spite of an almost uninterrupted string of failures: six bankruptcies, a laughable football team, a fraudulent university, and a board game no one wanted to play. Once a wrestler steps into the ring, the audience asks to be fooled. But how did someone as blundering as Donald Trump ever get into the ring? His fame has been with us for so long that it’s become one of life’s certainties, like death and hiding taxes.
