Tuesday's Trump Files...

It's a mixed bag for the Trump Olive Oil Company today, as Kerry Singe reports the "Trump Organization" has lost interest in buying The Point Lake and Golf Club due to member disarray and indecision. Shocking, that people of means can't agree on selling to other people of means.

Eric Trump, son of real estate mogul Donald Trump, flew to Charlotte Monday to meet with Crescent and club board members.

On Wednesday morning, Trump said, he called the board to say he was no longer interested.

"There's a lot of confusion at the club. A lack of direction," Trump told the Observer. "It's a great asset, and with a lot of capital could have been terrific. But we don't want to get bogged down with a deal that has a lot of different parties all moving in different directions at the same time."

Meanwhile, SI's Michael Bamberger watched the new "You've Been Trumped" documentary at the Miami Film Festival and came out of it feeling that filmmaker Baxter portrays Trump as a bully and blowhard, yet Bamberger finds The Donald "weirdly charismatic."

The Trump that appears in Baxter's film is a bully and a blowhard, and he comes off the same way in my friend Mike Tollin's ESPN film "Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?" (Trump! At least, that's Mike's considered view.) I don't doubt that Trump can be a bully and a blowhard, but I have a different take on him. I found Trump to be smart, open and weirdly charismatic.

But the thing I liked best about him is that he didn't take himself too seriously, or not overly so. When I was doing my reporting on Trump, he had an ugly, ongoing feud with Rosie O'Donnell. Three days a week or so there was a "Page Six" item about their Seinfeldian war over nothing. I said to Trump, "This thing with Rosie, you're loving it, aren't you?" He said, "Michael." (If you meet him and you can help him, he will learn your name and use it often.) "Rose O'Donnell is the gift that keeps giving." In other words, she kept his name in the paper, and he likes that. More recently, I've abandoned my old view. I now think Trump takes himself very seriously.

No, really? You sure Mike?

You've heard him talk about running for president and questioning Obama's birth records.

Unfortunately.

There was no wink in any of that, not that I saw. He used to talk to me about golf-course construction as a hobby, the way gardening is for other people. Now I think golf has become something more for him.