Latest Issue. Past Issues. I nDonald Trump made plans to purchase the Menie Estate, near Aberdeen, Scotland, aiming to convert the dunes and grassland into a luxury golf resort. Griffin recalls that Trump was a hard-nosed negotiator, reluctant to give in on even the tiniest details. It was as if the golden-haired guest sitting across the table were an actor playing a part on the London stage. There was something unreal about it. The same feeling perplexed Mark Singer in the late s when he was working on a profile of Trump for The New Yorker. Singer wondered what went through his mind when he was not playing the public role of Donald Trump. What are you thinking about, Singer asked him, when you are shaving in front of the mirror in the morning?