Before Trump’s presidency, when he was a businessman who only flirted with politics; various books, magazine articles, news articles, news videos, and whatnot were made about Donald Trump. The best one was probably a book entitled, “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald,” by Timothy L. O’Brien (originally published in 2005 Oct 26). The author interviewed Donald Trump and his various associates. The author concluded Trump was a big, fat fraud. Trump sued the author and his publisher for defamation, but Trump lost the lawsuit in 2009 and its appeal in 2011. During this lawsuit, Trump was forced to admit his wealth was based on his feelings. If he felt like a billionaire, then he was a billionaire. If he did not feel so well, then his wealth declined. Feelings, nothing more than feelings . . . (check out Morris Albert for the rest of the lyrics).
During Trump’s presidency, a seemingly record number of people (including former members of the Trump presidency, Trump family business, and Trump’s miscellaneous associates) wrote books that admonished, ridiculed, and censured (a) Trump’s decisions as a person, businessman, and politician, and (b) Trump’s family members and professional associates. See below for an incomplete collection of these highly critical books.
“Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America” by Nancy MacLean (2017 Jun 13)
“Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” by Michael Wolff (2018 Jan 5)
“A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership” by James Comey (2018 Apr 17)
“Everything Trump Touches Dies” by Rick Wilson (2018 Aug 7)
“Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House” by Omarosa Manigault Newman (2018 Aug 14)
“Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House” by April Ryan (2018 Sep 1)
“Whose Boat Is This Boat?: Comments That Don’t Help in the Aftermath of a Hurricane” by the staff of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2018 Nov 6)
“Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump” by Rick Reilly (2019 Apr 2)
“Siege: Trump Under Fire” by Michael Wolff (2019 Jun 4)
“Fear: Trump in the White House” by Bob Woodward (2019 Sep 10)
“The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays” Bandy X. Lee and 30 contributors (2019 Mar 19; original was published in 2017 fall)
“Kushner, Inc: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump” by Vicky Ward (2019 Mar 19)
“The Best People: Trump’s Cabinet and the Siege of Washington” by Alexander Nazaryan (2019 Jun 18)
“American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump” by Tim Alberta (2019 Jul 16)
“House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia” by Craig Unger (2019 Sep 3)
“Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits” by James D. Zirin (2019 Sept 24)
“Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America” by Christopher Wylie (2019 Oct 8)
“A Warning” by anonymous author who was allegedly a senior White House official (2019 Nov 19)
2020 Oct 28 Wed: Miles Taylor (former official of Homeland Security under the Trump White House) revealed he was the anonymous author.
“Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump” by Neal Katyal (2019 Nov 26)
“American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power” by Andrea Bernstein (2020 Jan 14)
“Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump--and Democrats from Themselves” by Rick Wilson (2020 Jan 14)
“A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America” by Philip Rucker (2020 Jan 21)
“Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump’s War on the World’s Most Powerful Office” by Susan Hennessey (2020 Jan 21)
“Sinking in the Swamp: How Trump’s Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington” by Lachlan Markay (2020 Feb 1)
“Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction” by David Enrich (2020 Feb 18)
“The Toddler in Chief: What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency” by Daniel W. Drezner (2020 Mar 25)
“Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy” by by David Frum (2020 May 26)
“Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth: The President's Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies” by the Washington Post Fact Checker Staff (2020 Jun 2)
“The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump” by Mary Jordan (2020 June 16) -- an unofficial biography of Melania Trump and her superficial marriage with Donald Trump.
“The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir” by John Bolton (2020 Jun 23)
“Separated: Inside an American Tragedy” by Jacob Soboroff (July 7, 2020) -- a book about the lousy living conditions inside immigration detention centers at America’s border states of California, Arizona, and Texas.
“Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” by Mary L. Trump (a clinical psychologist and Donald Trump’s niece) (2020 July 28)
On 2020 July 7 Tue, the US mainstream media got early copies of Mary Trump’s book, which claimed the following:
(a) Trump was too dumb to take the SAT, so Trump bribed another student (most likely a Jew) to take the SAT for Trump. Other sources claimed that Trump still got rejected by University of Pennsylvania, so Trump went to a lower ranking university. Trump's father made a donation to the Univ of Penn to help Trump obtain a transfer into the Univ of Penn, where Trump's fellow students and professors said Trump appeared to be a delinquent student or an average-at-best student.
(b) Trump rarely attended church, and, when he did, he did so only for marketing purposes to sucker in Christian customers and voters.
(c) Members of the Trump family used lawsuits to silence Mary Trump’s testimonies against Donald Trump and to block the publication of her book, because her book allegedly violated the privacy rights of the Trump family. During a family dispute over Fred Trump’s will, Mary Trump signed a nondisclosure agreement (NDA), but the overall situation with Fred Trump’s businesses and personal finances was filled with fraud based on a New York Times investigation of Fred Trump’s business records. Thus, Mary Trump said the NDA should be illegal or canceled. At the same time, Donald Trump said Mary Trump’s book was based on lies.
(d) Mary Trump leaked documents to the New York Times about the Trump family’s history of nonstop financial fraud. On 2018 Oct 2, the New York Times published a paper about this fraud. This resulted in an investigation about Donald Trump’s oldest sibling and sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, who was a federal judge. The federal investigators ended the investigation, because she retired early with a $200,000 per year pension.
2020 July 10 Fri: Trump boasted he “aced” a cognitive test with “unbelievable” scores. The test was provided by the White House medical doctors. Trump did NOT provide details about this test’s questions and when it was taken. In 2018, Trump took a simple medical test to ensure he was not suffering from major mental problems (dementia, Alzheimer’s, etc). The simple test asked him to identify pictures of commonly known animals, count backward from 100 by subtracting with 7, and other easy questions. On 2020 July 19 Sun, Trump went on a Fox News interview by Chris Wallace, and Trump insisted this dummy test was actually difficult.
On July 14 Tue, Mary Trump’s book was officially open for public sales , but the book was available for presales lasting around 2 weeks. During this time period, “Too Much and Never Enough” sold 950,000 copies of physical copies and electronic copies, according to the book’s publisher Simon & Schuster. This sales number was a record high for the publisher. The publisher’s previous sales record of 750,000 sold copies was held by Bob Woodward’s 2018 September book, “Fear: Trump in the White House.” Mary Trump’s book averaged very good to excellent reviews and was a #1 best seller or top 10 seller for Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other bookstores for at least 2 weeks. Books based on facts usually have much lower sales than fictional books. The top fictional books like Harry Potter books could sell 1 to 10 million copies within 1 sales day.
After 1 week of official sales plus ~2 weeks of presales, Mary Trump’s book sold 1.35 million copies at full price (at least $14.99). That number is larger than the lifetime sales for Donald Trump’s most famous book, “The Art of the Deal,” which was ghost-written by Tony Schwartz, who greatly regretted writing the book. After 32 years of sales, “The Art of the Deal” sold 1.1 million copies, and many copies were sold with large discounts for many years.
As of 2020 July 31 Fri, “Too Much and Never Enough” was still the #1 best-selling book for Amazon’s nonfiction section, and this #1 rank was 5 weeks in a row.
As of 2020 Aug 15 Sat, Mary Trump’s book was the #3 best-selling book for Amazon’s nonfiction section.
2020 July 17 Fri: Trump used his Twitter account to claim Mary Trump’s book was based on violating the NDA agreement, “untruthful things,” stealing and leaking his private records, and other unproven accusations. Trump also tweeted that Mary Trump was “a seldom seen niece who knows little about me”.
Before the book was officially sold to the general public, the White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said, “It’s ridiculous absurd allegations that have absolutely no bearing in truth. Uh, have yet to see the book, but it is a book of falsehoods.” After the book’s first sales day, McEnany continued to claim the book was based on lies.
I bought Mary Trump's book, "Too Much and Never Enough," and it was a good book consisting of 14 chapters plus an epilogue. Many of its stories were reinforced by decades of news articles, court records, testimonies by Donald Trump’s business partners + tenants + customers + students + contractors + politicians + bureaucrats, video records, audio records, government records, etc. The book was NOT only about the psychopathic businessman named Fred Trump and the sociopathic con-games of Donald Trump. The book was also about why Mary Trump's father, Freddy Trump, became fatally alcoholic, even though he was a good pilot with excellent career opportunities in America's early jet-powered airliners. The book talked about all of Fred Trump's kids and other relatives.
For example, Fred Trump wanted all 3 of his sons (Freddy, Don, and Robert) to eventually take control of Fred Trump's humongous real estate empire, which was based on cronyism, nepotism, government investments/contracts, insider deals, revolving doors, bribery, ripping off customers, tax evasion, and other scams. Freddy wanted a more honest business model or a totally different career, thus, Freddy was neglected plus emotionally and verbally abused by his father. Donald learned from the negligent and abusive relationship between Freddy and Fred, thus, Donald mimicked his father's treacherous ways, but Donald lacked his father's work ethic and technical skills, thus, Donald essentially became an inferior and more grotesque version of his father.
Fred Trump was an egotistical control freak, a skillful cheater and liar, and a man with narrow-minded, close-minded, and nearsighted values that worshiped the accumulation of money through real-estate deals/scams. Fred Trump learned these trashy, simplistic values from his father, Frederick Trump, who migrated to Canada and the US to avoid Germany’s military draft. Frederick Trump tried to return to Germany, but he was rejected for being a draft dodger, thus, he returned to the US. Frederick Trump made his wealth by owning hotels, restaurants, and lower-class whorehouses in Canada and the US. Frederick Trump’s original surname was spelled Drumpf or Trumpf.
Fred Trump dedicated his life to making his relatives, employees, and tenants mindlessly and/or faithfully dependent on him for money, housing, transportation, jobs, social circle, social hierarchy, education, hobbies, and any other aspect of life. Fred Trump was a cold-hearted bastard toward dissenters and independent-minded people, who he considered to be losers, idiots, and nobodies. He wanted everyone to be sycophantic toward him, or stay out of his way. He saw society as a simplistic hierarchy of who has more, who has less, who deserves more, who deserves less, and he was the ultimate judge-king-decider.
Mary Trump inherited her late father's more independent mind, higher intelligence, and stronger moral backbone. Her father was neglected, abused, and wrecked by the Trump family, but he eventually got the last laugh, because his daughter came back with vengeance, and history has exposed the con-games of the Trump family. Mary Trump's recently released book, "Too Much and Never Enough," sold very well for at least 1 week of pre-order sales and at least 1 week of official sales.
“Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth,” Brian Stelter (2020 August 25)
This book was written by a CNN journalist who provided various perspectives about Donald Trump from journalists who worked for the US mainstream media, especially Fox News, which favored the Republican Party and became a propaganda outlet for Trump.
“Melania and Me: My Years as Confidant, Advisor and Friend to the First Lady” by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff (2020 September 1)
Based on Stephanie W. Wolkoff’s book and interviews plus other sources, Melania was a highly privileged woman, but she did a simplistic, ditsy job of explaining her political viewpoints. Melania was additional proof that wealth and social influence did not guarantee an environment that cultivated intelligence. The entire Trump family (plus the Kushner family) going back 4 generations was proof of this. Trump’s marriage with Melania allowed her to use chain migration (e.g., bring over her parents into America), but both Trump and Melania criticized, ridiculed, slandered, neglected, and abused other migrants (especially from Latin America) who legally or illegally entered America with or without chain migration. The illegal immigration from Latin America to the USA was an overpopulation problem that was afflicting the entire planet, and people in the more worse areas flee or migrate to the less worse regions. In addition, other nations were worsened by America’s foreign policy of regime changes with proxy rebels and puppet leaders to control other nations’ natural resources and labor. However, the entire government and major corporations of the Zionist US empire, especially the Trump presidency, were way too dumb and arrogant to understand this and create an effective solution over the short-term to long-term and from one location to widespread regions.
“Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump” by Michael Cohen (2020 Sept 8)
On 2020 Aug 16 Sat, Michael Cohen’s future book already had lots of presales. The book was the #1 top seller for Amazon Internet store’s category of “political leader biographies”.
On Twitter, Trump accused his former long-time attorney Michael Cohen of being a “convicted lier” [sic].
Trump cultists’ response to Michael Cohen’s book: Michael Cohen could not be trusted, thus, Michael Cohen's book slandered Trump, even though Trump hired Michael Cohen as Trump's close attorney for many years. This was the type of magically nonsensical mindset that was needed to support the narcissistic con-artist and to worship Zionist Christianity's Biblical superstitions.
2019 Feb 27: During Congressional interviews regarding scams committed by Trump and Trump’s associates, Congressional Republicans tried to persuade or pressure Michael Cohen to promise or guarantee that he would not write a critical book about Donald Trump. Michael Cohen refused to yield to Congressional Republicans.
2020 July 21 Tue: Michael Cohen sued Trump’s Attorney General Bill Barr, because Cohen accused Barr of sending Cohen back into prison to prevent Cohen from publishing a critical book about his career as Trump’s personal lawyer. Cohen was sent to a 3-year prison term for financial fraud, tax evasion, and lying to authorities (all of which involved Donald Trump). Then he was sent to house arrest to minimize the spread of COVID-19 inside prisons. Then he announced he was almost done with his book, and then federal agents told him he was NOT allowed to publish this book. Then he violated his house arrest by eating at a restaurant with relatives and/or friends. Then he was sent back to prison. Then he was sent back to house arrest.
However, Michael Cohen was sent to a low to medium security prison with amenities for Jewish prisoners (e.g., Kosher meals and Shabbat services). The prison was named Federal Correctional Institution, Otisville (FCI Otisville). This prison was considered by various sources as one of the nicest prisons in America. In other words, Michael Cohen was lightly punished for all of the various scams he performed with Donald Trump. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Michael Cohen and other prison inmates were spread out (instead of the typical setup of using a large hall where all prison inmates slept), thus, many inmates were sent to solitary confinement, and these solitary prison cells could have lousy to zero air conditioning and heaters, inoperable toilets and sinks, and minor insect infestations.
2020 July 24 Fri: A judge said Michael Cohen was wrongfully sent back to prison to suppress his 1st Amendment rights, thus, Michael Cohen was re-released back into house arrest.
“Rage” by Bob Woodward (2020 Sept 15) -- This book was based on Bob Woodward interviewing President Donald Trump, testimonies by Trump’s White House staff, and claims made by other people connected to the presidency (other politicians, bureaucrats, and other journalists). For solid evidence, Bob Woodward had audio records of his interviews with Trump. This books portrayed Donald Trump as habitually dishonest, egotistical, recklessly impulsive, and other awful traits unfit for the leadership of any sizeable organization or project.
“Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation,” by Andrew Weissmann (2020 Sept 29 -- Weissmann was a top lawyer for the 2017 to 2019 FBI Mueller investigation about the Trump campaign’s public and secret cooperation with Russia during the 2016 presidential election. He admitted the obvious: Trump used his presidential powers to obstruct the investigation. For example, the president had the power of promoting, demoting, laying off, firing, and restricting FBI investigators. The president could use the pardon to protect his partners-in-crime, keep them silent, and allow them to tell lies. Trump also warned the FBI that investigating Trump’s finances was a red line.