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https://politicalwire.com/2021/06/15/publishers-snub-trump/Publishers Snub Trump
June 15, 2021 at 6:44 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Its unheard of for a former U.S. president to struggle to score a major book deal after leaving office. And the absence of Trumps own words from the literary world is made even more pronounced by the fact that several of his top aides and former Cabinet officials are writing books of their own.
tanyev
(42,566 posts)So there's the first untruth.
usaf-vet
(6,189 posts)Chainfire
(17,549 posts)I can't imagine a book written by someone who brags about not reading books. Of course, for his cult, it would be required decoration so it would certainly sell. It would most likely be titled My Struggle.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts)Ohio Joe
(21,756 posts)WTF? That moran can't read much less write.
ck4829
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Critical Race TheoryGoodRaisin
(8,924 posts)he would enlist someone to write it for him and then feed that person the lies. It could then be published as "fiction".
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)See Donald piss and moan. See Donald lose the presidency, house and senate by millions of votes.
GoodRaisin
(8,924 posts)See Ivanka. See Ivanka grift. Grift Ivanka grift.
calimary
(81,317 posts)See Ivanka grift. Grift, Ivanka, grift!
I wish that whole shitty family would GO AWAY. Preferably to jail or prison. Either one works.
bbernardini
(9,938 posts)Could a publisher be held liable if they publish the book and one of his cult members is inspired to act out in a terroristic fashion after reading the falsehoods in it? (Or more likely listening to the audiobook.)
machoneman
(4,007 posts)idiot!
Liber T.
(13 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)elected but he won the scam/ratfucking. Let's never forget that.
Haggard Celine
(16,846 posts)he's going to have to self-publish, probably. Maybe he could write (or have written, most likely) an internet book. He could charge $10 per download and all his little MAGAts would buy it. Yet another way to milk his followers!
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)and sadly, there are a lot of Trumpists who would spend the money.
Tree Lady
(11,474 posts)All of them not just Trump bought up thousands of books to put it on best seller list.
He has no campaign money to do that so publishers know they would be stuck with a loser book.
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)on the best seller list and he's not going to spend his own money. Today, it is more profitable to self-publish and go digital whenever possible. No one gets stuck with a bunch of "bargain books" that way.
Meanwhile, I don't think the world is crying out for a book by Trump and most of his followers don't read anything longer than a Tweet or a Facebook post.
calimary
(81,317 posts)PatSeg
(47,501 posts)before some of these fools figure out they've been conned. Oh well, they'd probably just spend that money on booze and ammo.
cutroot
(875 posts)I am still waiting for some Nixon people to come around.
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)to learn, but there are always some who never do. It tends to be human nature to not want to admit you are wrong, but for some people, it is pathological.
Xoan
(25,321 posts)and Trump's own words is a non-sequitur
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,321 posts)Response to babylonsister (Original post)
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brooklynite
(94,596 posts)From the very start, Regnery has been a major force within the conservative movement, publishing such authors as Russell Kirk (The Conservative Mind), William F. Buckley Jr. (God and Man at Yale), Whittaker Chambers (Witness), and many other giants of American conservatism. Regnery has also led the modern resurgence of conservative publishing over the past couple decades. Our list of authors reads like a whos who of conservative thought and action, including Ann Coulter, David Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, Dinesh DSouza, Newt Gingrich, Mark Steyn, Mark Levin, Ed Klein, David Horowitz, Laura Ingraham, Donald Trump, and many more. Regnery has boasted one of the best batting averages in the publishing businessplacing more than fifty books on the New York Times bestseller list, including numerous books at #1.
keithbvadu2
(36,828 posts)But! But! But! Donald was appointed/anointed by God.
bucolic_frolic
(43,182 posts)Trump couldn't put together a book for idiots.
bucolic_frolic
(43,182 posts)So FG45 is not very into this project either.
plimsoll
(1,670 posts)The underlying fear is that whatever Trump would write wouldnt be truthful. Literally LOL. Theres nothing to fear, it wont be truthful so just go with it. Put it under Fiction, itll be a best seller no doubt. The RNC will buy millions just to make sure. I encourage it, our best bet at this point is to keep encouraging the GOP to spend as much of their money as possible propping up the Potemkin President.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,181 posts)Or, as it would come to be known, "The Little Orange Book".
George II
(67,782 posts)calimary
(81,317 posts)Publish whatever he writes on a roll of toilet paper!
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,011 posts)spooky3
(34,458 posts)As he is convicted.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,504 posts)Working title: My Version of Truth.
ZenDem
(442 posts)...saying something to the tune of "two unexpected publishers have offered deals" but "he's too busy planning something" but "still writing like crazy, anyway" and "if he wrote a book it would be the greatest story every told" or some bullshit shit like that?
Idiot. Gross, egomaniacal, heartless, sociopathic, fucking jackass.
calimary
(81,317 posts)Like what, donald? A sequel to January 6th?
I will ALWAYS assume the worst of this bastard.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)He couldn't write a cogent paragraph much less a book.
rurallib
(62,423 posts)let alone 'covfefe'
Ford_Prefect
(7,901 posts)edhopper
(33,587 posts)it would be a big multiple liable suit for any publisher. Not worth the trouble.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)who never reads books. Perfect.
Mar-ma-lardo was the former home of Marjorie Post, of the Post Cereal fame. She spared no expense in building and furnishing the mansion. She filled the library with rare first editions and the greatest books ever written. Trump has never picked one up and read it. Never.
Think about that. All the collective knowledge in the world at his fingertips, and he's never read any of it. Probably because there's a paucity of pictures and articles about him. How could these be the greatest books in the world if they're not about him, right?
There will never be a Donald J. Trump presidential library. What would they put in it? "The Art of the Scam"? Printouts of his tweets?
Trump is the most shallow, egotistical president in history. There is nothing to be learned from him beyond greed and self- serving narcissism.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)blogslug
(38,002 posts)Blue Owl
(50,423 posts)yonder
(9,666 posts)There's something hilarious about that line - I can't quite place it. Sarcastically incongruous? Insanely satirical? Dunno.
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)Y'now: the guy who referred to him as a "colorful guy" in an NBC-TV interview.
Of course, Pootie would try to embed tracking chips along the book's spine. Or -- for eBooks -- he could encode it to take control of the "smart" device and launch another cyber-attack on our nation.
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)Whether its truthful or not would be the least of my worries, because you know it wont be. A message inside the front cover making it clear that the words in this thing are his and we had nothing to do with them would keep the legal wolves away. I would probably go so far as to print on a digital press and make his people lay the book out; when the attorneys for the people he maligned came knocking, we have no idea whats in this book; we autoflowed it into an imposition and pushed the print button, and weve never even read it would be sufficient defense.
Given that, if this book wasnt sufficiently fawning over Fearless Leader, the Proud Boys, Boogaloo Boys, militias, etc., etc., etc. (you know, the guys who would have been thrown out of Malheur for insanity) would be coming after your ass. Look at what theyre doing to election officials who didnt give 2020 to Trump. I mean, who cares if 25,000 more people voted for Biden?
Blue Owl
(50,423 posts)IcyPeas
(21,889 posts)the guy's never read a damn book in his life.
twodogsbarking
(9,759 posts)Wait for it.
Cha
(297,309 posts)own Shithole.
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)any ghost writer that helps him.
Harker
(14,024 posts)laundered money, and copies will be "bought" by the truckload so he can have his name on another useless "bestseller."
Reagan's official biography was fiction.
Same here, only much worse.
Joinfortmill
(14,429 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)with KKK sheet, torch, pistol.
BigmanPigman
(51,609 posts)he always does.
WarGamer
(12,449 posts)More money to publish it himself or through a second tier publisher.
colorado_ufo
(5,734 posts)"Vladimir P."
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)He needs to become the Orange Outcast he deserves to be until hopefully his fat rear end gets thrown in Jail.
LudwigPastorius
(9,155 posts)The Wizard
(12,545 posts)if they publish information on how to commit crimes, and someone becomes a victim of crimes outlined in the publication.