Trump "somewhat prides himself" on his "many best selling books" which he did not actually write

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After having written many best selling books, and somewhat priding myself on my ability to write, it should be noted that the Fake News constantly likes to pour over my tweets looking for a mistake. I capitalize certain words only for emphasis, not b/c they should be capitalized!

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Trump biographer: Trump didn't write any of his books http://hill.cm/aXLT1eA

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[Gothmog]

1. From Lawrence O'Donnell

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[smirkymonkey]

6. I hate that fucking face!

[Initech]

15. Easily punchable shit eating grin.

[smirkymonkey]

16. Backpfeifengesicht!

It's actually not a "new" German word, it's just suddenly become popular in this country because of this fuckwit and many others.

[madaboutharry]

2. I think that his mental illness leads him to believe he wrote those books.

Reporter: "What can you tell me about Tony Schwartz?"

Trump: "Tony Schwartz? I never heard of the guy!"

[demtenjeep]

3. what a dumbass

a narcissist dumbass

[matt819]

4. Of course

It’s pore over, not pour over

[Aristus]

5. You beat me to it.

Trump is to the English language what the Enola Gay was to Japanese architecture.

[smb]

8. Trump Is To Logic What Sunken R'lyeh Is To Human Architecture nt

[area51]

7. Really, Trump?

So what does "Melanie" have to say about this?

[Scurrilous]

9. K&R

[struggle4progress]

10. Trump biographer: Trump didn't write any of his books

BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN - 07/03/18 06:05 PM EDT

A biographer of President Trump hit back at Trump’s tweet touting himself as the author of “many best selling books,” saying that ghostwriters had written all of the president’s books.

“President Trump didn’t write any of his books. Ghostwriters on all of them,” author Tim O’Brien tweeted Tuesday ...

Trump is credited as the author of more than a dozen books. Almost all of them acknowledge the use of a ghostwriter or co-author ...

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/395464-trump-biographer-trump-didnt-write-any-of-his-books

[struggle4progress]

11. Book club exactly what you would think it would be

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 11:14 PM ET, Mon May 7, 2018

... Trump has started a book club of sorts -- recommending no fewer than seven books to his Twitter followers.

... The common thread isn't a policy perspective or even a political viewpoint. It's Trump. These are all people who like Trump, and so he likes them. When they write a book, he tweets about it ...

... So why is this ... so strange? Because Trump is a notoriously disinterested reader ...

In May 2016, in a sitdown with then Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly, Trump said ...

... I would love to sit down and read a book, but I just don't have the time ...

... most people who aren't super into books don't make a habit of recommending books to their 51 million closest friends ...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/07/politics/donald-trump-book-club/index.html

[struggle4progress]

12. I just binge-read eight books by Trump

By Carlos Lozada
July 30, 2015

... In it, Trump, then 41, explains the power of psychology and deception — he calls it “bravado” or “truthful hyperbole” — in his early real estate acquisitions. Before he was a brand name, he had to convince people that he was worth their time. It was small things here and there. Like asking his architect to gussy up the sketches for a hotel so it seemed like they spent huge sums on the plans, boosting interest in his proposal. Or having a construction crew drive machinery back and forth on a site in Atlantic City so that the visiting board of directors would be duped into thinking the work was far along. “If necessary,” he instructed a supervisor, “have the bulldozers dig up dirt on one side of the site and dump it on the other.”

“I play to people’s fantasies,” Trump explains ...

... Trump’s books are sprayed with insults, like he’s trying to make sure we’re still paying attention. He trashes a former Miss Universe for gaining weight. When he meets a one-star general, he asks, “How come you’re only a one-star?” ...

Streaks of insecurity run through the books ... Everything he owns is the best, biggest, hottest. His apartment: “There may be no other apartment in the world like it.” His yacht: “probably the most beautiful yacht ever built.” His living room: “While I can’t honestly say I need an eighty-foot living room, I get a kick out of having one.” And his third wife, Melania: “considered by many, including me, to be one of the most beautiful women in the world” ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2015/07/30/i-just-binge-read-eight-books-by-donald-trump-heres-what-i-learned/?utm_term=.3d771fa17055

[struggle4progress]

13. Is Trump Ruining Book Sales?

By MORGAN JERKINS
July 26, 2017

... “I was sort of jokingly told that any books that weren’t political, dystopian, or both, weren’t really selling.” Trump’s Presidential win has sent a rippling effect through the book publishing world, affecting authors, booksellers, editors, agents, and publicists: In a world where reality has become stranger than fiction, actual books are no longer selling ...

... the news cycle has sucked the air out of the room. The disastrous and almost comically incompetent Trump presidency has both frightened the reading market away from popular books and functioned as a kind of mass entertainment with which it is difficult to compete, with Senate hearings and official testimonies becoming must-see TV ...

As far as older books go, the reports are telling. Leigh Altshuler, the Strand’s Director of Marketing and Communications, found that consistent bestsellers of 2017 were The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984—decades-old dystopian works that are receiving new attention ...

https://newrepublic.com/article/144029/trump-ruining-book-sales

[fescuerescue]

14. He's dishonest so I'm sure he used ghost writers

That's what dishonest people do.