The last thing Donald Trump ever wants to be seen as is weak or vulnerable.

Faced with a bullet grazing his head, he still strikes a defiant pose in the aftermath lest anyone interpret the act of being shot as a vulnerable moment. It is a side of Trump that he hopes no one will ever see or notice.

Yet there are rare moments when this side reaches the surface, and it can feel quite startling, as if he has maybe revealed too much of himself.

Times when he has spoken about his brother Fred, for one, whose alcoholism led to an early death that greatly influenced the trajectory of the younger Trump. Glimpses into his personal grief are fleeting, but they expose a man who, beneath his bravado, is deeply shaped by his fear of being rendered powerless.

Think of all the great art we'll get from a Trump win…

But there’s an even stranger instance of Trump revealing his vulnerable side, and it’s when, in 2002, he reviewed his favourite film – the 1941 Orson Welles-directed Citizen Kane.

It’s not hard to see why the film resonates so much with Trump. Its portrayal........

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