The Making of President Trump

It was a cold winter morning, January 21, 2021 at 12:01 pm, the fifth anniversary of the swearing in ceremony of our 45th president, President Donald J. Trump. Our nation’s capitol is covered with more than three feet of snow and it is a blistering 45 degrees below freezing in Washington D. C. The crowd estimated to be numbering in the millions, have braved this blistering cold afternoon to purchase the First Edition of President Trump’s  just released “new and improved version” of The Art of The Deal, Part Two. President Trump is in his warm cozy suite at the Trump International Hotel with his black super-size Sharpie in his hand, standing at the ready, awaiting the first 1000 individuals who have survived the long cold morning and have the $20,000 entry fee to have their personal copy of their book signed by him. A movie deal has just been completed and the movie, The Making of President Trump, has been produced and directed personally by President Donald J. Trump. The movie will not be released until the book sells reach 60 million copies sold.

Trump recently gave his upcoming book and movie a thumb’s up in his press conference last week from the Oval Office. ” It’s the best book, the best book ever written,” Trump informed the waiting press. “It is better than Gone With The Wind and the movie will be better, much much better than Birth of A Nation. Trump has pledge to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth on how he planned to ascend to the presidency back in 1985 and reveal his sources and methods in his successful effort to become the “greatest, greatest president of all time. “Greater than President Abraham Lincoln, greater than President George Washington.” as he gestures with his fingers. Shortly after Trump’s statements one of the reporters from CNN asked why he did not included President Barack Obama in his comparison. “Obama was born in Kenya.” Trump blurted out as his face became as white as snow. “In my book and the movie, I explain how I used the birther thing and rode this lie all the way to the White House. Trump refers to Obama as the “Manchurian President and sated he should have never been in the White House in the beginning. “What about the Mueller investigation?” shouted out MSNBC reporter, Katy Tur. “The investigation that lasted twenty two months and indicted over 30 individuals.” Trump face turns apple red when he responded to the question. “No collusion, no collusion!” I explained this all in the book and the movie. Buy the book and the movie will be out after we reach our goal of 60 million copies sold.” said Trump. “This Rush-cher Thing was all a part of fake news and everybody knows the press is the enemy of the people.

A female reporter from the New York Times asked how he managed to survive the Hollywood Access Tapes and the #MeToo Movement. “Will that be revealed in your book and the movie? Trump faced turned blue with as he was angered by the question but responded. “Bill Cosby went to the Big House. I went to the White House.” Trump reminded the press reporters that he has a “large brain” and how he graduated at the top of his class. Without any warnings, the lights in the Oval Office went totally dark and when the lights finally came back on, Trump was gone. I immediately woke up when the alarm went off at 5am. It was a dream, only a dream, however sometimes dreams come true.

Trumpism Being Trumped

“Rich people who don’t read are a**holes and poor people who don’t read are f**ked!”….Sherman Alexie

Donald J. Trump has been our president, without releasing his taxes, for more than 100 days, whether you like it or not. President Trump has brought a level of excitement and resentment to our national consciousness that is impossible to avoid. As president, he has dominated not only the daily news cycle of the United States but the entire world, and there exist little doubt that he is enjoying every moment. The rise of Donald J. Trump can easily be traced back to 1987 with the success of his book, The Art of the Deal, reportedly written by Trump and “ghostwriter”, Tony Schwartz. This best selling book that spent forty-eight weeks on The New York Times best-seller list, eventually gave rise to the television show, The Apprentice, in 2004.

While waiting in the doctor’s office I ran across the July 25, 2016 edition of The New Yorker. Before I knew it I was drawn toward this portrait of the backside of Donald Trump and the story written by Jane Mayer called Trump’s Boswell Speaks .Schwartz reportedly came up with the title, The Art of the Deal but was quoted as saying if he wrote the book today he would call it “The Sociopath.” Schwartz takes credit for writing The Art of the Deal and the former head for Random House, Howard Kaminsky,  the publisher of the book, confirms Schwartz’s claim stating that “Trump never wrote a postcard for us”. Once Schwartz was informed that Trump was running for president, he revealed how the real and true Donald J. Trump was a stark difference from the Trump depicted in The Art of the Deal. Schwartz appeared on all of the major television and cable outlets long before Trump’s ascension to the White House and basically took credit for being the “Dr. Frankenstein” that created Trump.

As America waits on our 45th president to “pivot”, to start acting “more presidential” and dignified as president of the free world, it is becoming  obvious with every passing day that “Trump is Trump” and not only will he not change but it is possible he is unable to changed. Before Trump’s decision to run for president, America “knew” he had the propensity to lie and distort the truth. As he rode the “Birther Train” from Trump Tower to the White House, we are still waiting on his “investigators to return from Hawaii with the goods on former president Barack Obama. Schwartz  stated that “Lying is second nature” for Trump. America has witness this fact for ourselves over the past 20 months as many of the lies that Trump has espoused continue to go round and round as the print and mass media goes from one rabbit hold to another chasing down what apparently is a lie. It has been said that a “lie has wings but no legs” so it just flies and flies unable to land. I prefer Dr. Martin Luther Kings assessment of lying lips, “Truth crushed to the earth, shall rise again”.

President Trump has a penchant for “gold” and several golden nuggets were gleaned from The New Yorker article as observed by Schwartz, who basically had to become a “fly on the wall” in his efforts to produce The Art of the Deal: Trump’s is pathologically impulsive and self -centered; Trump views everyone as a scummy loser, liar, or you are the greatest; Trumps has no attention span; his lack of a vocabulary and not liking to read; and the list goes on and on. Many of the traits “we”((at home and abroad) have observed and can confirm the above character traits and many more. Schwartz’s statement about “lying is second nature” for Trumps goes on to say that Trump “has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at a given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true”.

D. Watkins, the author of The Beast Side, subtitle, Living and Dying While Black in America. called Trump a “hustler.” Watkins reported that his former lifestyle as a “hustler” coming up in Baltimore, Maryland gave him the insight to know a hustler when he saw one. Watkins introduced me to Sherman Alexie who is quoted (with some clean- up) at the beginning of this article. To date President Donald J. Trump has managed to keep America in the “dark” as it relates to his taxes and his domestic and foreign agenda for this country and maybe even the world. The Washington Post quote on it Website is most appropriate, “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”