I'm Kelly McEvers and this is Embedded, an NPR podcast where we take a story from the news and go deep.

And this time, what a crowd.

We're going to talk about a man you hear a lot these days.

We will build the wall. We will build the wall.

The fake news and the crooked media.

Fake, fake, fake.

I'm not finished fake news.

We will never forget our favorite slogan of them all.

Make America great again.

In a way you might not have heard yet.

Have you seen exhibit 912 before?

Yes, I assume so. I mean, again, I can't because I know it gets amended every once in a while.

But the inside stories of what the president and some of his closest advisors were doing

before they got to the White House, from the people who were there.

People who helped make a new kind of reality show.

We told a story. We went with beginnings and middles and ends and villains and protagonists.

And that's when the producers, that's when you see editing come in like, no, you have to love his

apartment. He had a gold toilet, a gold toilet. He's a hustler and I love him.

I love that he's a hustler. He hustled himself a TV show. He hustled himself a gig.

And I had, I continued to go, wow.

People who were there when he built a golf empire.

There's been flagpoles put in without permission. Trees put in without permission.

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