For weeks after he first won the White House in late 2016, Donald Trump held court at Trump Tower, his Fifth Avenue skyscraper in Manhattan that perfectly embodied the man’s public image: a wealthy, gaudy titan of real estate and fixture of the New York tabloids. Wearing heavy overcoats as they came in from the cold, a parade of potential Cabinet appointees, members of Congress, and famous figures—from Bill Gates to Kanye West—strode past the array of cameras in the gold-covered lobby of Trump Tower to see the president-elect.
Michael Warren is a politics editor at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he was an on-air reporter at CNN and a senior writer at the Weekly Standard. When Mike is not reporting, writing, editing, and podcasting, he is probably spending time with his wife and three sons.
