The Art of the Donald

He is still pudgy. His brown belt bites gently into soft flesh under a white polo shirt and white pants. His square pink face is widening bottomward like a baobab, slackening from chin to sternum, easing into Churchillian jowls. Blond eyebrows spray up on the famous low brow, over small pale-blue eyes. The famous world-by-a-string smirking playboy face has gained gravitas. Last June, the Donald turned 50. Wunderkind no more.In The Art of the Donald , Mark Bowden takes us inside the Donald Trump’s private quarters (and private jet), painting an intimate portrait of the mogul at mid-life, a picture that includes lots of bacon, marble, and a morbid fixation with falling planes.The Art of the Donald was originally published in Playboy , May 1997.Cover design by Adil Dara.