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Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All
I was a little surprised to discover that no one had made a thread for this yet. My friend messaged me the link half a week ago, but I was mostly off-the-grid until last night. This was published on July 25th in what is generally regarded as the preeminent high-society cultural magazine in the USA: The New Yorker.
Now this ghostwriter is making the rounds on leftist media such as his recent appearance on the Bill Maher show. It turns out that-- yet again-- Trump is a fraud, and what is generally regarded as his greatest achievement (among those who don't regard his personal $4bn valuation as that) isn't even his. Is anyone surprised at this point?
Understand that this isn't your typical business book ghostwriter. It's fairly typical for personalities who don't have a background in writing to hire someone to help them write their auto-biographies or other books, but the practice of true "ghostwriting" where this person isn't given any credit had gone out of fashion until the rise of reality TV personalities; understandably, this has always been best suited to people like Snooki who want to capitalize on the book market despite that they are themselvse barely literate.
Rather, these people are generally attributed co-authorship, and everyone understands that their primary function is to help the person structure his or her thoughts for better flow and polish of speech. In its best form, IMO, the person writes the rough drafts himself and this other person will do a re-write that functions as an effective editorial reworking of the person's thoughts. Though Tony Schwartz, the man who wrote The Art of the Deal, was given a byline in such a fashion it becomes clear that Trump had virtually nothing to do with the composition of this book that is regarded as an all-time classic in the field of business:
This would amount to pure identity politics except that he exposes-- yet again-- the hollow lack of truth to Trump's boasts about how he actually achieved his business success which his father enabled with political connections and occasionally multi-million dollar subsidies or loans. It's yet one more study (in testimony) that exemplifies he's never been the business maestro he claims to be.
But I don't think I could distill Trump's lack of character and dishonesty more acutely than by this fact. The article ends by relating a phone call Trump made to Schwartz upon learning that Schwartz had chosen to go public with this negativity.
I was a little surprised to discover that no one had made a thread for this yet. My friend messaged me the link half a week ago, but I was mostly off-the-grid until last night. This was published on July 25th in what is generally regarded as the preeminent high-society cultural magazine in the USA: The New Yorker.
Now this ghostwriter is making the rounds on leftist media such as his recent appearance on the Bill Maher show. It turns out that-- yet again-- Trump is a fraud, and what is generally regarded as his greatest achievement (among those who don't regard his personal $4bn valuation as that) isn't even his. Is anyone surprised at this point?
Understand that this isn't your typical business book ghostwriter. It's fairly typical for personalities who don't have a background in writing to hire someone to help them write their auto-biographies or other books, but the practice of true "ghostwriting" where this person isn't given any credit had gone out of fashion until the rise of reality TV personalities; understandably, this has always been best suited to people like Snooki who want to capitalize on the book market despite that they are themselvse barely literate.
Rather, these people are generally attributed co-authorship, and everyone understands that their primary function is to help the person structure his or her thoughts for better flow and polish of speech. In its best form, IMO, the person writes the rough drafts himself and this other person will do a re-write that functions as an effective editorial reworking of the person's thoughts. Though Tony Schwartz, the man who wrote The Art of the Deal, was given a byline in such a fashion it becomes clear that Trump had virtually nothing to do with the composition of this book that is regarded as an all-time classic in the field of business:
Perhaps more embarrassingly is Schwartz's confirmation at the most intimate level of what so many psychiatrists have said about his public personality: that there is no "private" Trump, but only the one, and he is indeed a sociopathic narcissist.
This would amount to pure identity politics except that he exposes-- yet again-- the hollow lack of truth to Trump's boasts about how he actually achieved his business success which his father enabled with political connections and occasionally multi-million dollar subsidies or loans. It's yet one more study (in testimony) that exemplifies he's never been the business maestro he claims to be.
But I don't think I could distill Trump's lack of character and dishonesty more acutely than by this fact. The article ends by relating a phone call Trump made to Schwartz upon learning that Schwartz had chosen to go public with this negativity.
The final lie to ice the cake; in fact, he is suing Schwartz.
