The Trump Legend What is the Trump story? It will be quite different for followers and detractors. I believe the reason that so many people can have completely opposite views of the same person and events lies in great part to our American, and perhaps human, myths. I had occasion once to be watching a televangelist in the company of some fundamentalist in-laws. Seeing this person crying while singing a hymn, I thought he was the phoniest person I had ever seen. But one of my wife's aunts turned to me and said, "Isn't he the most sincere person you've ever seen?" I didn't answer, but it occurred to me that we were sitting in the same room watching the same event with completely opposite views. I love studying history, but I am now more careful to try and research the historian. Some of us like to believe in heroic leaders following their "gut instincts" despite evidence to the contrary. Television characters