Book bombs: Trump aide tell-alls fail to sell

[kpete]

A number of top aides to the 45th president churned out books after his presidency ended. The public isn’t buying.

“A year after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows released a tell-all book about his 10 months in the White House that promised to be a ‘frank, candid account’ of running Trump’s chaotic West Wing,” Politico reports.

“The buzz around it was heavy. But in the publishing world, it was a bust. The Chief’s Chief has sold only 21,569 books… And it’s not the only book by an ex-Trump aide that has failed to fly off the shelves.”

“The memoir of Deborah Birx, the Covid response coordinator under Trump, has sold fewer than 6,000 copies; Dr. Scott Atlas’ book sold 27,013 copies; Dr. Ben Carson’s book sold 21,786 copies; former White House press secretary turned Trump critic Stephanie Grisham sold 38,249 books; counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway has sold 42,273 books since it was published in late May; and former defense secretary Mark Esper sold 20,900 books.”

“Former attorney general Bill Barr sold 64,103 books. But the one Trump post-White House book sales that did best appears to be Peter Navarro’s, whose In Trump Time has sold 80,218 copies of his book so far.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/23/trump-aides-book-00041620
https://politicalwire.com/2022/06/23/books-by-former-trump-aides-bomb/

[msfiddlestix]

1. Well, what should a publisher expect? Trump Cultists are not known as being literate.

of course there is the audio format, but still.. Do Trump Cult followers Read anything other than their twitter feeds?

I see very little evidence of literacy connected to that segment within the U.S. national population.

[hatrack]

2. Oh,look! A pile of shit! Let's stare at it for hours!

Let's see what it has to say, and what it thinks, and what its motivations were during The Critical Hours Of Defecation!!

[Blue Owl]

3. 3rd-dimensional grifting

[spanone]

4. K&R

[irisblue]

5. I don't buy books by crooks

[Justice]

6. They aren't "tell all" books - they attempt to sanitize themselves and what Trump et al did.

Navarro was probably too dumb to sanitize very well.

I have heard pundits say that Bob Woodward and Robert Costa's book Peril is remarkably accurate - as events have played out.

[mopinko]

7. so my curse is working. mwwahahahaaaa.

[zuul]

9. Good job, mopinko! Keep it up!

[zuul]

8. What, the RNC isn't buying up copies to make them look good?

While TFG was squatting in the White House, the RNC was happily buying up copies of right-winger books to save face.