# After leaving the White House, will Trump publish a presidential memoir? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 13, 2020, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-leaving-the-white-house-will-trump-publish-a-presidential-memoir/855583 "2020-06-13T02:12:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-leaving-the-white-house-will-trump-publish-a-presidential-memoir/855583/21 "2020-06-14T19:31:27Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > You mean like [this](https://www.123rf.com/photo_9949172_single-orange-crayon-isolated-on-a-white-background.html)? šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-leaving-the-white-house-will-trump-publish-a-presidential-memoir/855583/22 "2020-06-15T17:05:40Z")
If thereā€™s money to be made from one, and there will be, hell yes heā€™ll write a memoir! Will it be readable, or worth reading? Almost certainly not. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-leaving-the-white-house-will-trump-publish-a-presidential-memoir/855583/23 "2020-06-15T21:34:23Z")
To write a book you kinda have to know what one is, and itā€™s value. He does not strike me as someone who is well-read. His digital excrescences will likely be more than enough to solidify his legacy, since anything online is there forever. How can a written ā€œbookā€ be any better than that? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-leaving-the-white-house-will-trump-publish-a-presidential-memoir/855583/24 "2020-06-15T22:30:15Z")
Hopefully, he will be to busy in court to do so. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-leaving-the-white-house-will-trump-publish-a-presidential-memoir/855583/25 "2020-06-15T22:36:21Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > You think he tweets a lot now wait till heā€™s out of office. There will be no shutting him up. Heā€™ll be a free as he feels to tweet crazy, racist, conspiracy bullshit non-stop without a care in the world. And all the media sources wonā€™t be able to resist giving him the stage to do it since crazy, racist, conspiracy bullshit from an ex-president makes for great ratings. > Why waste your time with a book when you have all the countryā€™s media sources at your beck and call whenever some screwball thought comes to mind ready to spread it everywhere. Exactly. Thereā€™s a reason why he uses Twitter now, and that reason isnā€™t going to change. Heā€™s mentally lazy and an attention whore. Twitter works for that. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-leaving-the-white-house-will-trump-publish-a-presidential-memoir/855583/26 "2020-06-15T22:42:10Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > And all the media sources wonā€™t be able to resist giving him the stage to do it since crazy, racist, conspiracy bullshit from an ex-president makes for great ratings. > > Why waste your time with a book when you have all the countryā€™s media sources at your beck and call whenever some screwball thought comes to mind ready to spread it everywhere. I would dispute this. Crazy rantings from a President is newsworthy. Crazy rantings from a guy who used to be President is not. Once Trump leaves office, heā€™ll get as little media attention as any former President gets. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-leaving-the-white-house-will-trump-publish-a-presidential-memoir/855583/27 "2020-06-15T23:21:04Z")
A book? Memoir? Like the last 10 minutes? He will try to start the anti Hillary/Biden channel that will out FOX FOX. That is if he has any money left at all. And hopefully, between courtroom appearances. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-leaving-the-white-house-will-trump-publish-a-presidential-memoir/855583/28 "2020-06-16T03:36:49Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Speaking of which, when was the last presidential memoir that \*\*\*was \*\*\*all (or mostly) written entirely by the ex-president himself? > > Clinton? Bush Sr.? > Carter? Bill Clinton wrote his own book ā€œMy Lifeā€. Didnā€™t he? ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-leaving-the-white-house-will-trump-publish-a-presidential-memoir/855583/29 "2020-06-16T15:31:00Z")
You all seem to think heā€™s going to prison. He is not. His lawyer will successfully argue that his advanced dementia precludes trying him. Of course, there will be a book. Anything for a buck. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-leaving-the-white-house-will-trump-publish-a-presidential-memoir/855583/30 "2020-06-16T15:38:30Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > It will be in coloring book format. Flesh colored crayons included at no extra charge. Colouring book? I was thinking more along the lines of a pop-up book. The surprise on every page would help hold his attention. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-leaving-the-white-house-will-trump-publish-a-presidential-memoir/855583/31 "2020-06-16T18:17:14Z")
Sure - a text book of conspiracies to form the basis of his Right Wing TV channel. Chapters like: The Deep State Obama the Foreign Born President The Obama Raids The Emails How Hillary Stole the Popular Vote Public Enemy Number One - The Media The Mueller Fiasco The Perfect Call The Unconstitutional Impeachment My Total exoneration My Beautiful COVID19 Response The Greatest Economy in History How I won the 2020 Election Epilog - The Triumph of my Will Stuff like that ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-leaving-the-white-house-will-trump-publish-a-presidential-memoir/855583/32 "2020-06-16T18:45:35Z")
The book would read like listening to your second cousins unemployed loser husband going on and on about how he dropped out of school and quit all his jobs because all those around him failed to recognize his genius. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-leaving-the-white-house-will-trump-publish-a-presidential-memoir/855583/33 "2020-06-16T19:06:33Z")
> [@Crane](#): > > Sure - a text book of conspiracies to form the basis of his Right Wing TV channel. Chapters like: > > The Deep State > Obama the Foreign Born President > The Obama Raids > The Emails > How Hillary Stole the Popular Vote > Public Enemy Number One - The Media > The Mueller Fiasco > The Perfect Call > The Unconstitutional Impeachment > My Total exoneration > My Beautiful COVID19 Response > The Greatest Economy in History > How I won the 2020 Election > Epilog - The Triumph of my Will > > Stuff like that A great list! I would add: Kim Make me an Elder Statesman Hiring and Firing Only the Best ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-leaving-the-white-house-will-trump-publish-a-presidential-memoir/855583/34 "2020-06-18T01:57:53Z")
> [@Kimera757](#): > > I think Trump will write a memoir, if only to complain how the election was ā€œstolenā€ from him. Parts will be ghost-written, the rest will look like a collection of his tweets. What an optimistic thread! The memoir will explain how the evil, now disbanded, liberal media said he lost, but brave GOP legislatures, like in Florida and Pennsylvania, recognized the cheating and sent a list of Trump electors to Washington. 46th U.S. President Donald Trump Jr. will order it printed by the Government Printing Office and distributed to every American home. Do I really think this will happen? No, but it is all too possible. When your President talks like a dictator, you shouldnā€™t assume he wonā€™t act the way such leaders normally do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-leaving-the-white-house-will-trump-publish-a-presidential-memoir/855583.md?page=1)