It’s June of 2015 and bored, with a few hours to kill and a dead cell phone, you pick up a copy of “Trump: The Novel” which effectively is a novelization of everything that happened from his announcement in July 2015, onward. Sitting down, you start reading…
What type of book would you classify it? Spy thriller? Political drama? Surreal comedy?
At what point did you toss the book to the side, saying “Bullshit. There’s no way. Anything that happens after this point is really irrelevant because in The Real World, this wouldn’t happen.”?
I would classify it as “political theatre of the absurd.”
I thought it was a really entertaining novel but I could not continue to suspend my disbelief after he won the Republican nomination. However, I am still reading it because I’m dying to see how it ends. I think it was written by either Sidney Sheldon, Joseph Heller, or Kurt Vonnegut. Maybe all three.
a/ Wildean political comedy, sophisticated satire.
b/ NA: when the dems ran their equally ridiculous champion, there was no way he could lose. Obviously he resonates with many millions of Americans and is whom they identify the nation.
I will say that the pure personal quaintness of these two insanely self-regarding candidates may not be appreciated for a 100 years.
Oh no no no, “Trump: The Novel” would have to start in his early life being raised as a boy jerk of a jerk father, and move through his early adult life as a joker in the New York social scene, through his mob/money laundering cum “real estate tycoon” years, then TV personality, then into politics. Personally, I threw it away back when Spy magazine called him out as a “short fingered vulgarian”. At that point I said, “This can’t be real.”
(Since then it’s been a decades long O M F G slow motion train wreck.)
I’d say the author was a liberal who was going too far in caricaturing the kind of politician he imagined conservatives would elect. Sure, the Republicans have elected a string of bad Presidents but keep it realistic. A candidate who has no political experience and was a reality TV star, who brags about sexual assault, who openly makes racist statements, who fills his administration with family members, and who works for the Russians? Who’s going to believe all that?
Political satire/comedy. Like the movie “Idiocracy”.
Throw it away? Are you kidding? This is hilarious! I can barely put it down.
Well, I’m only part way through the book, so there’s two possible endings.
The electorate of the in the book just don’t care, and this is the beginning of a political family legacy. Book ends with Ivanka Trump elected president. At this point you realize that it actually is a supervillain/horror origin story!
The people and the politicians finally agree that they just can’t allow this to happen to their country that they love. Trump is offered a backroom deal to resign. Trump does and then speaks very publicly about how he really wanted to make America great again, and would have succeeded even after such a short period of time, but the deep state wouldn’t let him. He’s very sorry to everybody that believed in him, but his health just cannot let him continue. Oh and he’s keeping all your contributions but he will continue to fight the deep state. In fact, you can donate here and he promises not to steal from this fund for his own personal use, even though the losers and haters claim that he’s stolen from his charities before.
1. What type of book would you classify it? Spy thriller? Political drama? Surreal comedy?
Bad satire.
2. At what point did you toss the book to the side, saying “Bullshit. There’s no way. Anything that happens after this point is really irrelevant because in The Real World, this wouldn’t happen.”?
The part where the other side manages to respond in a dignified and rational manner, and in a way that is best for the whole country.
I’m up to the part with the Russians in Trump Tower. It reads like a spy thriller, but the Cold War callbacks really take me out of the story. Between that and all the napping, I keep expecting to find out that Trump is really Reagan reincarnated.
It began with him being a lousy businessman with no political experience, little native intelligence, and an inability to learn complicated things. I was either going to throw it out after the first 3 pages or just go with it. Nothing has been out-of-bounds since.
Trump not just merely getting more than 5% of the vote, but in fact *besting *the Electoral-College performance of Bush, Dole, Bush, Bush, McCain, and Romney.
I was convinced the Republican party would wise up and never let a tv huckster be their standard bearer. So that is the point when I would have said “now you’ve gone too far”. . .boy, was I wrong!
I’m waiting for the last page, as Trump and The trumplings, Kushner, Bannon, Manafort, Pence etc are all cuffed and walked into Leavenworth, Ivanka cackles as she watched it all on TV from the penthouse tower of her new real estate empire.