Trump’s ‘lazy’ $99 coffee table book includes 10 pages of him with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un
Donald Trump made a handsome profit from the sales of his last two books — so he’s released another, which critics are calling “lazy” and “glorious gibberish.”
“Save America” — a 300-plus-page photo book that promises to provide an “unparalleled look into his four years” and a “roadmap for the future” — offers little new insight into the Trump administration, but instead relies on familiar ground to relay his usual talking points, reviewers say.
“Save America” is also the name of Trump’s super-PAC, and the captions mimic the wording and sentiments — including awkward capitalization — of his Truth Social messages. New York Magazine decried the photo book as “lazy” while the Washington Post described the captions as akin to a “fascist Emily Dickinson.”
In one familiar refrain, Trump focused on crowd size in a caption beside a photo of his inauguration: “Democrats tried to disparage Crowd size, knowing that this was the Largest Inaugural Crowd EVER — See for yourself!”
Trump also appeared to use some phrases nearly verbatim from his campaign rallies when discussing immigration.
“The entire World is emptying out their Prisons, Insane Asylums, and Mental Institutions — America is being turned into a DUMPING GROUND for the Hannibal Lecters of the Third World. We have to stop it now,” he wrote.
At aWisconsin rally last week, Trump told the crowd: “You take a look at the crime statistics, you take a look at the jail statistics, the jails are being emptied out. The mental institutions are being emptied out and insane asylums…A representative of people that are coming into our country. Dr Hannibal Lecter, he will have you for dinner.”
Trump also has a lot to say about his international friends and enemies in his book. “Save