Donald Trump's photo memoir is revisionist history and old grudges

[left-of-center2012]

By Ron Charles - Book critic - Washington Post

“Yesterday, I received my official copy of the former president’s recently published picture-book memoir, ‘Our Journey Together’. It was launched last year by Donald Trump Jr. and former Trump campaign aide Sergio Gor.
The publisher gushes that every photograph has been handpicked by the President.”

It’s remarkable how effectively this presentation captures Trump’s wandering mind and self-sabotaging bitterness. Early in the book, there’s a two-page spread showing men repairing a grandfather clock: “After eight years of President Obama,” Trump writes, “we needed to make the White House GREAT again.”

Some comments beneath included photos:

1. A spread shows Trump talking from a podium about his historic tax cut with “some conservative patriots and some weak RINOs.”

2. A photo in the Oval Office of Trump speaking to John and Cindy McCain says, “John McCain visited me in the White House, asking for a job for his wife. I am smiling, but I didn’t like him even a little bit.”

3. Below a photo of an intimate dinner party that includes Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Mark Zuckerberg, Trump writes, “Mark Zuckerberg would come to the White House and kiss my ass.”

In short, this is a memoir spun from the thin gruel of musty propaganda and cherished grudges. Turning these pages is like watching an old man dust his Hummel figurines and whine about the neighbors.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/02/11/donald-trump-memoir-our-journey-together/

[BigmanPigman]

1. I saw the photos when I Googled it and they are elongated

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216330215

to make him appear thinner. The publisher is another joke. Their name is "Winning Team Publishing".

[Demovictory9]

2. pathetic

[Delphinus]

3. It used to be

you could believe things if they were actually published in a book.

[tblue37]

9. Donald Trump Jr is the co-founder of Winning Team Publishing. It was

launched just last year by Trump Jr. & former Trump campaign aide Sergio Gor.

[BigmanPigman]

11. Nobody else on the planet would have a publishing

company with that cheesy name. He is the most classless and tacky creature dead or alive. I think ordering a well done steak and eating it with ketchup says everything you need to know about how unsophisticated he is.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Wow, what an excellent sentence!!!

....this is a memoir spun from the thin gruel of musty propaganda and cherished grudges."

[ashredux]

5. Your last sentence is a classic. Well done.

[spanone]

6. What a pathetic piece of shit.

[7wo7rees]

7. Good lord!! It is all I've got!!

Just, Good Lord!!

Lately I've just been feeling somewhat fortunate we barely survived the "reign of terror". Just upside down.

Ms.7wo7rees

Hang in everyone!! It is going to be a bumpy ride!!

[Brainfodder]

8. Sounds like a hilarious read though?

Of course I wouldn't pay a nickel for a copy, if I want laughs Monty Python movies are our go to.

[tblue37]

10. How telling that his memoir is a picture book with so little text.