I admittedly don’t know much about French President Emmanuel Macron, but he pulled a great line on Trump and even if It turns out he kicks babies for fun, I’ll still find myself having a bit of admiration for the guy. You see, by all accounts, while Trump was asking Macron to help convince the EU to the trading table as opposed to retaliatory tariffs against the US, Macron validated those actions by regurgitating the Art of the Deal back at Trump, which…I mean it’s the classiest, most elegant burn I could ever imagine. I don’t know that I could have ever thought to do that, and I have to wonder how Trump responded to that. Because I honestly don’t know how that confrontation ended, which is the real tragedy.
Donald Trump recently put out a tweet defending his writing prowess. Not before everyone had a field day with his spelling error which caused him to remove and fix the mistake. I personally found the spelling error less funny than the content of the tweet. Trump suggested that he doesn’t Tweet anything without considering every word, every capital letter. While the media “pours” over his tweets, looking for mistakes, he claims they will find none, because he is a genius writer. As he reminds us all, he has written many books, and those books, by his estimation, are groundbreakers. All of them. Hmmm…even, if we accept at face value that his books are any good, the level of credit he can really get for writing them is…questionable AT BEST. We know, for a fact, that he had little to do with actually constructing art of the deal. Tony Schwartz, the “co-author” has gone on record about the process of how that book came into existence. Most of the story involves Donald Trump rambling incoherently, Schwartz trying to make sense out of what he could, then basically making up the rest as he went along. The idea that Donald Trump is some gifted writer is a bigger fib than his claims that his Access Hollywood tape was just “locker room talk.”
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