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11. Book club exactly what you would think it would be

Tue Jul 3, 2018, 11:29 PM

Jul 2018

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 11:14 PM ET, Mon May 7, 2018

... Trump has started a book club of sorts -- recommending no fewer than seven books to his Twitter followers.

... The common thread isn't a policy perspective or even a political viewpoint. It's Trump. These are all people who like Trump, and so he likes them. When they write a book, he tweets about it ...

... So why is this ... so strange? Because Trump is a notoriously disinterested reader ...

In May 2016, in a sitdown with then Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly, Trump said ...

... I would love to sit down and read a book, but I just don't have the time ...

... most people who aren't super into books don't make a habit of recommending books to their 51 million closest friends ...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/07/politics/donald-trump-book-club/index.html

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