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Judi Lynn

(160,620 posts)
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 12:22 AM Jan 2020

Trump announces plan to acquire a book - about himself


President said Thursday – while announcing a rollback of environmental regulations – that he plans to read Donald J Trump: An Environmental Hero

Matthew Cantor
@CantorMatthew
Thu 9 Jan 2020 22.12 ESTLast modified on Thu 9 Jan 2020 22.23 EST

Donald Trump is going to acquire a book.

The book in question, as Gizmodo reported on Thursday, is titled Donald J Trump: An Environmental Hero, by Edward Russo. And the shocking news emerged as the president announced a rollback of environmental regulations at the White House, taking an ax to the environmental review process required for infrastructure projects. The move, which he pitched as a way around “endless delays” to various projects, poses a new threat to the climate and is likely to face legal challenges.

The president’s war on the environment is nothing new. His plan to bury his nose in a book is.

Trump isn’t known for his literary bona fides. Though the bestseller The Art of the Deal helped make his name, it was ghostwritten by Tony Schwartz – who deeply regrets his work on the book. Ghostwriters have been involved in most, if not all, of his many other volumes. “He doesn’t read books and he doesn’t write them,” Schwartz told the Independent in 2018. (The late night host Samantha Bee has developed a conspiracy theory that Trump can’t read at all.)

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/09/donald-trump-book-environmental-hero
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Trump announces plan to acquire a book - about himself (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2020 OP
I think Samantha Bee may be right. murielm99 Jan 2020 #1
Because........he's.......... AZ8theist Jan 2020 #2
I could probably survive a dictatorship in the United States, but.... AZ8theist Jan 2020 #3
Since his lips move even when he looks at pictures, could it be a pop-up book? CaptYossarian Jan 2020 #4

murielm99

(30,761 posts)
1. I think Samantha Bee may be right.
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 01:13 AM
Jan 2020

I think his reading level may be below that of a fifth grader. He may have a learning disability. Everyone here seems to be sniping about adderall, but it may be just as likely that he misreads the teleprompter.

AZ8theist

(5,492 posts)
3. I could probably survive a dictatorship in the United States, but....
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 03:34 AM
Jan 2020

Did they have to make the dictator the DUMBEST MOTHERFUCKING IMBECILE ON THE PLANET??????

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
4. Since his lips move even when he looks at pictures, could it be a pop-up book?
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 09:39 AM
Jan 2020

There are rumors that he sodomized a 15-year old girl provided to him by Epstein, so he may be dyslexic. That's not an excuse because his IQ is a couple of deviations under par.

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