A shock outsider when he was first elected president eight years ago — and a pariah when he left office — Donald Trump appears to be the most popular person in America as far as the rich and powerful are concerned.
Tech tycoons, US politicians, foreign leaders and even some in the media have been lining up to kiss the ring of the 78-year-old Republican ahead of his return to the White House in January.
“In the first term, everyone was fighting me. In this term, everybody wants to be my friend,” Trump mused to reporters at his luxury Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday.
“I don’t know, my personality changed or something.”
