1. Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man
maria l trump
This dynastic tale of a trained psychologist authoritatively diagnoses Trump’s disease: Donald, as his niece Mary calls him with casual disdain, is a damaged individual, emotionally stunted and morally warped by his upbringing, who has infected the United States. United with their own “toxic positivity”. Aware of her evil uncle’s revenge, Mary says that if he is re-elected, she intends to apply for a British passport. Let’s hope she is not driven to such an act of reckless desperation.
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2. how trump thinks: his tweets and the birth of a new political language
peter oborne and tom roberts
Published shortly after the inauguration, this anthology of trump’s bird-brained tweets harkens back to the early days when, as a door-to-door salesman too lazy to leave the house, he used twitter to promote the shoddy merchandise that he and melania were trading on the commercial network. oborne and roberts helpfully recall trump at his most naively tasteless, while preserving some cherished illiteracy. i love the moment when he berates the chinese for committing an “unpresidential act” by seizing a us navy drone. US, a precedent for your own imminent impeachment?
3. American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
tim alberta
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This anatomy of moral cowardice and seedy self-interest watches Republicans disregard their principles as they give in to Trump’s hostile takeover of their party and make “a deal with the devil.” obsequious mike pence once told his friends that he “hated trump”, and lindsey graham aptly defined him as “a xenophobic and racially harassing religious fanatic”; then they and their cronies began to lick each other’s boots like slaves. it will be fun to see them debunk his lies when he loses.
4. fire and fury: inside the trump white house
michael wolff
Starting gossip, wolff is deliciously viperous, and on his publicity tour he added to the already scandalous record by implying, without any evidence, that trump and nikki haley used air force one as their flying motel room. To his credit, Wolff is astute and a little embarrassed in discussing the collusion between Trump and the journalists he officially denigrates. trump wants publicity, hackers want copy: the two sides have a stinky dependency on each other, and no one gets away without being smeared.
5. a very stable genius: donald j trump’s test of america
philip rucker and carol leonnig
A while ago, updating his claim to being a genius, trump invited us to admire his “magnificently brilliant” answers in a television interview; he preferred to trust his former secretary of state, rex tillerson, who saw him as “a fucking asshole”. This book is the blackest of comedies, nihilistically hilarious in its documentation of Trump’s incompetence. Rucker and Leonnig also give us a glimpse of his sulphurous cynicism when he mocks the fools who voted for him. “I’m a total act,” he told his communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, “and I don’t understand why people don’t get it.”
6. beautiful country burns again: democracy, rebellion and revolution
ben font
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Of all the haters, as Trump smugly calls his critics, the fountain is the deadliest. his descriptions of the man are an exercise in black magic, and each metaphor is a graphic curse: battering ram head, garbage-eating raccoon eyes, hair sculpted by a flamethrower, verbal slime like mush. but the anger is justified by underlying pain. Derived from articles commissioned by The Guardian, the source book reflects on an ideal United States that Trump has desecrated and debased, perhaps irreparably.
7. full disclosure
stormy daniels
A hollow machismo was always crucial to Trump’s belligerent brand, and Stormy Daniels nimbly pierces his virile pose. she laughs at trump’s unimpressive entrance, deplores her lack of coital stamina and winces at the puddle she leaves on her belly. worst of all is his whiny plea for a second date. Trump told journalist Bob Woodward that he wanted to be feared, which is the hope of all would-be autocrats; the way to take him down, as stormy realizes, is not to flinch with alarm but to tremble with incredulous glee.
8. shadow: a tale of two presidents
pete souza
souza, obama’s official photographer, compiles here a hagiographical gallery of the past president lighting up the world, quietly communicating with colleagues, or just doing his job. Lavish trump quotes or tabloid headlines about his antics are placed on the opposite pages, so that he hides in obama’s shadow. here’s the ultimate insult to this obese retired popinjay: the book renders him invisible, as if tossing him into oblivion.
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