Fake President
Decoding Trump's Gaslighting, Corruption, and General Bullsh*t
Published on 22. September 2020
216 pages
978-1-5107-5113-2 (ISBN)
Description
"Read Fake President….This book can help us replace Trump with truth."
-Gloria Steinem
"Terrific new book. Fake President informs as it entertains."
--Laurence Tribe
An incisive, witty roadmap into the disinformation and betrayals of President Trump-just in time for the impeachment hearings and the 2020 election.
Donald Trump was lawfully selected as the US president...but is still a "fake" president because he simply lacks the integrity, intelligence, and stability to perform the duties of the office as the Constitution intended. "If you spend so much time golfing, tweeting, and seething," write Green and Nader, "it's understandable that a POTUS doesn't get around to appointing one-third of all agency inspector generals...Might as well expect a surgeon to be an opera singer."
As the House Impeachment Inquiry unfolds based on a similar premise, Fake President decodes many of his worst scandals and "twistifications" (a Jefferson coinage). And it's bound to get even worse as the House gets closer to actual Articles of Impeachment and the Fall election approaches. Since it's nearly impossible to keep track of Trump's "daily lava of lies," two of America's foremost public advocates do that work for you. This is your one-stop shop that explains what the Lyin' King means to our democracy.
It's a cheeky, deadly rebuke of Trump's incorrigible "fakery"...from his dishonesty about foreign policy to blatant ignorance about the environment to his messianic narcissism.
Fake President is an essential guide to help you understand the two biggest news stories of the coming year-impeachment and the 2020 presidential election.
-Gloria Steinem
"Terrific new book. Fake President informs as it entertains."
--Laurence Tribe
An incisive, witty roadmap into the disinformation and betrayals of President Trump-just in time for the impeachment hearings and the 2020 election.
Donald Trump was lawfully selected as the US president...but is still a "fake" president because he simply lacks the integrity, intelligence, and stability to perform the duties of the office as the Constitution intended. "If you spend so much time golfing, tweeting, and seething," write Green and Nader, "it's understandable that a POTUS doesn't get around to appointing one-third of all agency inspector generals...Might as well expect a surgeon to be an opera singer."
As the House Impeachment Inquiry unfolds based on a similar premise, Fake President decodes many of his worst scandals and "twistifications" (a Jefferson coinage). And it's bound to get even worse as the House gets closer to actual Articles of Impeachment and the Fall election approaches. Since it's nearly impossible to keep track of Trump's "daily lava of lies," two of America's foremost public advocates do that work for you. This is your one-stop shop that explains what the Lyin' King means to our democracy.
It's a cheeky, deadly rebuke of Trump's incorrigible "fakery"...from his dishonesty about foreign policy to blatant ignorance about the environment to his messianic narcissism.
Fake President is an essential guide to help you understand the two biggest news stories of the coming year-impeachment and the 2020 presidential election.
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Persons
Mark Green (R-Tennessee) is currently serving as chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security. Raised in Mississippi, he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army for several years before going to medical school, and returned to it after completing a residency in emergency medicine.
After leaving the army for good, Green founded a healthcare company and is currently serving his third term in Congress. He and his wife, Camilla, reside in Clarksville, Tennessee, and have two grown children.
After leaving the army for good, Green founded a healthcare company and is currently serving his third term in Congress. He and his wife, Camilla, reside in Clarksville, Tennessee, and have two grown children.
Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Authors' Note and Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Faking It
- Essay by Ralph Nader: Donald Trump vs. Our Democracy
- Your Own Bullshit Detector: 21 Favorite Trump Tricks to Distract, Deflect, Deceive
- 1. Health Insurance: "Obamacare is dead." (No, it's not.)
- 2. Climate Violence: What, Me Worry?
- 3. Women: When not "grabbing them by the pussy," Trump maintains that "Nobody has more respect for women than me. Nobody."
- 4. Race: "I am the least racist person in the world."
- 5. Crime & Guns: Less Crime! More Guns!
- 6. The Rule of Law(Lessness): "A Shocking Pattern of Illegality"
- 7. Appointees: Ethics, Schmethics
- 8. Dumb & Dumber: Contagious Incompetence
- 9. Age of Rage: "Knock the crap out of them, would you?"
- 10. Media: "The Enemy of the People"
- 11. Secrecy: "We're the most transparent administration ever, by far."
- 12. Bully's Pulpit: Teddy Roosevelt: "Bully!" Donald Trump: a Bully
- 13. War and Peace: He's No Metternich
- 14. Putin: And His Siberian Candidate
- 15. Springtime for Dictators: "Under Article II, I have the right to do whatever I want as president."
- 16. Allies: Diplomacy by Frenemy
- 17. Immigration: "And some, I assume, are good people."
- Epilogue: "On Betrayal," by Ralph Nader: "Dear Trump voter, if you're listening."
- Endnotes
- Postscript
- About the Authors
