Publishers Snub Trump

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2021/06/15/publishers-snub-trump/

Publishers Snub Trump
June 15, 2021 at 6:44 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

Politico: “Almost five months after leaving office, major publishing houses still are wary of publishing a book by Trump, even though a post-White House memoir would almost assuredly be a best-seller. Their reluctance is driven by several factors, though the underlying fear is that whatever Trump would write wouldn’t be truthful.”

“It’s unheard of for a former U.S. president to struggle to score a major book deal after leaving office. And the absence of Trump’s own words from the literary world is made even more pronounced by the fact that several of his top aides and former Cabinet officials are writing books of their own.”

[tanyev]

1. Well for one thing, he wouldn't be writing any of it himself.

So there's the first untruth.

[usaf-vet]

20. And anything he wrote would be in Black Sharpie or crayon in the original manuscript.

[Chainfire]

28. Isn't that the truth

I can't imagine a book written by someone who brags about not reading books. Of course, for his cult, it would be required decoration so it would certainly sell. It would most likely be titled My Struggle.

[maddiemom]

36. Hah! I got that...

[EarnestPutz]

38. Yep. It would be even better if he wrote it from a prison cell, like Adolph did.

[Ohio Joe]

50. Yup, exactly my first thought on seeing the OP

WTF? That moran can't read much less write.

[ck4829]

2. Huh, there is no Trump Publishing? What's up with that, right?

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Critical Race Theory

[GoodRaisin]

3. Trump is incapable of writing a book over the first grade primer level, so

he would enlist someone to write it for him and then feed that person the lies. It could then be published as "fiction".

[3catwoman3]

19. See Donald. See Donald whine.

See Donald piss and moan. See Donald lose the presidency, house and senate by millions of votes.

[GoodRaisin]

31. LOL. See Donald. See Donald Lie. Lie Donald lie.

See Ivanka. See Ivanka grift. Grift Ivanka grift.

[calimary]

49. A whole new twist to "Stop the Steal," 'eh?

“See Ivanka grift. Grift, Ivanka, grift!”

I wish that whole shitty family would GO AWAY. Preferably to jail or prison. Either one works.

[bbernardini]

4. I don't know much about the law, but...

Could a publisher be held liable if they publish the book and one of his cult members is inspired to act out in a terroristic fashion after reading the falsehoods in it? (Or more likely listening to the audiobook.)

[machoneman]

24. Yes, they could be held liable. Even if found not guilty, they won't take a chance with the village

idiot!

[Liber T.]

62. The bible ?

[empedocles]

5. Might be fear of what trump crimes may unfold in the coming year?

[abqtommy]

6. I'm offended to read former fascist guy described as "former U.S. president". He was never

elected but he won the scam/ratfucking. Let's never forget that.

[Haggard Celine]

7. If he wants to have his memoir published,

he's going to have to self-publish, probably. Maybe he could write (or have written, most likely) an internet book. He could charge $10 per download and all his little MAGAts would buy it. Yet another way to milk his followers!

[PatSeg]

23. Yes, that sounds like Trump's style

and sadly, there are a lot of Trumpists who would spend the money.

[Tree Lady]

26. I always thought the campaign of these idiots

All of them not just Trump bought up thousands of books to put it on best seller list.

He has no campaign money to do that so publishers know they would be stuck with a loser book.

[PatSeg]

32. Yeah, that is such a cheesy way to get

on the best seller list and he's not going to spend his own money. Today, it is more profitable to self-publish and go digital whenever possible. No one gets stuck with a bunch of "bargain books" that way.

Meanwhile, I don't think the world is crying out for a book by Trump and most of his followers don't read anything longer than a Tweet or a Facebook post.

[calimary]

51. Yep. Soak the Scum.

[PatSeg]

56. I wonder how long

before some of these fools figure out they've been conned. Oh well, they'd probably just spend that money on booze and ammo.

[cutroot]

61. Don't hold your breath

I am still waiting for some Nixon people to come around.

[PatSeg]

65. Yes, many people are slow

to learn, but there are always some who never do. It tends to be human nature to not want to admit you are wrong, but for some people, it is pathological.

[Xoan]

8. Literary world ...

and Trump's own words is a non-sequitur

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. The Forner Guy is not capable of telling the truth

[brooklynite]

11. What does it say that Regnery won't touch this either?

Welcome to Regnery Publishing, the country’s leading publisher of conservative books. Since Henry Regnery founded the company back in 1947, we’ve focused on publishing books that challenge the status quo, books that spark a debate, and books that get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country.

From the very start, Regnery has been a major force within the conservative movement, publishing such authors as Russell Kirk (The Conservative Mind), William F. Buckley Jr. (God and Man at Yale), Whittaker Chambers (Witness), and many other giants of American conservatism. Regnery has also led the modern resurgence of conservative publishing over the past couple decades. Our list of authors reads like a “who’s who” of conservative thought and action, including Ann Coulter, David Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, Dinesh D’Souza, Newt Gingrich, Mark Steyn, Mark Levin, Ed Klein, David Horowitz, Laura Ingraham, Donald Trump, and many more. Regnery has boasted one of the best batting averages in the publishing business–placing more than fifty books on the New York Times bestseller list, including numerous books at #1.

[keithbvadu2]

34. But! But! But! Donald was appointed/anointed by God.

But! But! But! Donald was appointed/anointed by God.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Known Ghostwritten books are not marketable or believable

Trump couldn't put together a book for idiots.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Never been a Miranda before like "anything you write may be used against you"

So FG45 is not very into this project either.

[plimsoll]

14. That was hysterical.

“The underlying fear is that whatever Trump would write wouldn’t be truthful.” Literally LOL. There’s nothing to fear, it won’t be truthful so just go with it. Put it under Fiction, it’ll be a best seller no doubt. The RNC will buy millions just to make sure. I encourage it, our best bet at this point is to keep encouraging the GOP to spend as much of their money as possible propping up the Potemkin “President.”

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. Just collate his tweets. "Quotations from God-Emperor Donald".

Or, as it would come to be known, "The Little Orange Book".

[George II]

16. He'd have to wait until after the pandemic, there's still a shortage of toilet paper.

[calimary]

52. Now THERE'S an idea!

Publish whatever he “writes” on a roll of toilet paper!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

17. Kindle Direct Publishing?

[spooky3]

18. A shame--now they won't be able to throw his own book at him

As he is convicted.

[OAITW r.2.0]

21. It certainly would be a work of fiction.

Working title: My Version of Truth.

[ZenDem]

22. Wait...didn't he just send out a "statement"...

...saying something to the tune of "two unexpected publishers have offered deals" but "he's too busy planning something" but "still writing like crazy, anyway" and "if he wrote a book it would be the greatest story every told" or some bullshit shit like that?

Idiot. Gross, egomaniacal, heartless, sociopathic, fucking jackass.

[calimary]

53. "...too busy planning something"???

Like what, donald? A sequel to January 6th?

I will ALWAYS assume the worst of this bastard.

[SoonerPride]

25. It would be written by someone else anyway

He couldn't write a cogent paragraph much less a book.

[rurallib]

40. probably couldn't spell 'hamberders' by himself

let alone 'covfefe'

[Ford_Prefect]

27. Undoubtedly his former staff and cabinet members will be equally factual, no?

And the absence of Trump’s own words from the literary world is made even more pronounced by the fact that several of his top aides and former Cabinet officials are writing books of their own.

[edhopper]

29. Because

it would be a big multiple liable suit for any publisher. Not worth the trouble.

[SergeStorms]

30. A book written by a guy.....

who never reads books. Perfect.

Mar-ma-lardo was the former home of Marjorie Post, of the Post Cereal fame. She spared no expense in building and furnishing the mansion. She filled the library with rare first editions and the greatest books ever written. Trump has never picked one up and read it. Never.

Think about that. All the collective knowledge in the world at his fingertips, and he's never read any of it. Probably because there's a paucity of pictures and articles about him. How could these be the greatest books in the world if they're not about him, right?

There will never be a Donald J. Trump presidential library. What would they put in it? "The Art of the Scam"? Printouts of his tweets?

Trump is the most shallow, egotistical president in history. There is nothing to be learned from him beyond greed and self- serving narcissism.

[BobTheSubgenius]

33. Good! Let him know that he is as irrelevant as a person as he will soon be as a politician.

[blogslug]

35. lol

[Blue Owl]

37. The Art of Utter Failure

[yonder]

39. "And the absence of Trump's own words from the literary world."

There's something hilarious about that line - I can't quite place it. Sarcastically incongruous? Insanely satirical? Dunno.

[Fritz Walter]

41. He could always ask his Vladdy Daddy to publish it

Y'now: the guy who referred to him as a "colorful guy" in an NBC-TV interview.

Of course, Pootie would try to embed tracking chips along the book's spine. Or -- for eBooks -- he could encode it to take control of the "smart" device and launch another cyber-attack on our nation.

[jmowreader]

42. His followers would be my real concern

Whether it’s truthful or not would be the least of my worries, because you know it won’t be. A message inside the front cover making it clear that the words in this thing are his and we had nothing to do with them would keep the legal wolves away. I would probably go so far as to print on a digital press and make his people lay the book out; when the attorneys for the people he maligned came knocking, “we have no idea what’s in this book; we autoflowed it into an imposition and pushed the print button, and we’ve never even read it” would be sufficient defense.

Given that, if this book wasn’t sufficiently fawning over Fearless Leader, the Proud Boys, Boogaloo Boys, militias, etc., etc., etc. (you know, the guys who would have been thrown out of Malheur for insanity) would be coming after your ass. Look at what they’re doing to election officials who didn’t give 2020 to Trump. I mean, who cares if 25,000 more people voted for Biden?

[Blue Owl]

43. Suck it Donny you fucking piece of shit

[IcyPeas]

44. the words "trump" and "literary" don't even belong in the same sentence.

the guy's never read a damn book in his life.

[twodogsbarking]

45. Soon he will be pre-selling the book.

Wait for it.

[Cha]

46. POS Psycho Dug himself into his

own Shithole.

[Mr.Bill]

47. Publishers should blackball

any ghost writer that helps him.

[Harker]

48. Some phony cabal will publish it, funnel him an obscene amount of

laundered money, and copies will be "bought" by the truckload so he can have his name on another useless "bestseller."

Reagan's official biography was fiction.

Same here, only much worse.

[Joinfortmill]

54. Maybe they're waiting until after the trial. Just saying.

[NCjack]

55. The "book" will become DVD collection of his rallies,

with KKK sheet, torch, pistol.

[BigmanPigman]

57. He'll find another way to rip off his supporters,

he always does.

[WarGamer]

58. He would have never gone through a publishing house...

More money to publish it himself or through a second tier publisher.

[colorado_ufo]

59. Maybe he should consider writing it under a "nom de plume," a "pen name," such as

"Vladimir P."

[colsohlibgal]

60. Good

He needs to become the Orange Outcast he deserves to be until hopefully his fat rear end gets thrown in Jail.

[LudwigPastorius]

63. "...the underlying fear is that whatever Trump would write wouldn't be truthful."

[The Wizard]

64. Publishers can be found at fault

if they publish information on how to commit crimes, and someone becomes a victim of crimes outlined in the publication.

[Vinca]

66. Whatever happens, they should wait until the next toilet paper shortage.