4 books about Fucktard Trump.

The Washington Post

Summer reading: President Donald Trump outside St. John's Church in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky); Simon & Schuster; Simon & Schuster; Simon & Schuster. President Trump doesn’t like to read books, but this month he’s being overwhelmed by them. In the beginning, was the Bible. On June 1, his photo op with the Good Book in front of St. John’s Church required first driving away peaceful demonstrators with tear gas and pepper spray. The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington was outraged by the president's stunt, and the resulting scandal grew so ugly that even Pat Robertson winced (story).  Then came “The Art of Her Deal,” by Washington Post reporter Mary Jordan, which revealed that the president’s latest wife is not a “good-hearted princess who needs to be saved from her rapacious and bullying husband” (review). Instead, Jordan says, Melania Trump is a crafty strategist who revises her past as creatively as her husband does and leveraged his election to renegotiate her prenup (excerpt).  And then came news that the president’s niece, Mary L. Trump, is about to publish a scathing exposé titled “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” (story). Mary is a clinical psychologist, which could make her book the most interesting pairing of author and subject since Freud analyzed the Rat Man.   And finally, the pièce de résistance: Despite months of threats, denunciations and stalling tactics by the White House, former national security adviser John Bolton is moving ahead with his damning tell-all, “The Room Where It Happened.” The official release date is June 23, but Bolton’s anecdotes about Trump’s malfeasance have already poured out (details), and the book is No. 1 on Amazon based on pre-sales. Washington Post reviewer David Ignatius writes, “As much as you think you know about the arrogance, vanity and sheer incompetence of Trump’s years in the White House, Bolton’s account will still astonish you” (review).  Trump’s efforts to squelch the book have served as an advertising campaign so lavish and effective that I suspect the president is on Simon & Schuster’s payroll. On Tuesday, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit to stop the book's release and to claim that the government deserves any money Bolton might earn from it (story). On Wednesday, the Justice Department took a more extreme tack and sought an emergency order to block its release (story). I think Bolton will eventually lose his profits on the grounds that he breached his contract with the government, but there’s no chance a judge will recall hundreds of thousands of copies of his book.