GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2024 12:53 pmThe grift just never ends.
https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1841870980416729314
... CNN did not sign the agreement....
'The Dictator's Wife' Author Reviews Melania Trump's Memoir And… Oof!
It's not the only blistering critique of the former first lady's book.
... Reading the memoir, titled “Melania,” is “to pass through the looking-glass,” Freya Berry wrote in a literary assessment published Wednesday by The Daily Beast.
“Trivial things are important. Important things barely register,” and “there’s no sense of self-awareness that there might be slightly more at stake when, say, she spends a whole chapter on her White House renovations,” Berry said.
The book’s “main tone is of a press release,” and some sections sound “like a sales pitch,” Berry added, noting one paragraph in which Trump’s “work for scholarships for foster children segues into a plug for her own memorabilia, in a whiplash that actually had me staring at the page, agape at its audacity.”
Berry has recently said that Trump “inspired the antiheroine” in her novel, which centers on the “beautiful, enigmatic wife of a feared dictator,” according to a product description. Berry wrote in a Tuesday article for the British outlet inews.co.uk that she penned “The Dictator’s Wife” after following Trump on the 2016 campaign trail and becoming “fascinated by her moral ambiguity.”
Berry is not the only person to offer a scathing critique of Trump’s memoir.
A review by Vanity Fair’s Keziah Weir bluntly said, “Amid the glitter, though, the book is bad.” Weir described Trump at times as having “the narrative instincts of a hound in a fish store, following her nose from one exciting scent to the next, beginning anecdotes only to abandon them.”
Yikes, they really don't like the book or it's "author".Britain’s Telegraph outlet slapped a one-star review on the book, calling it “deeply weird” and “hard to believe.” And The New York Times described it as “a brazen whitewash of a presidency” that is “full of obfuscations.”...
"Oof!" is the best and most succinct descriptor of Dolt .45's family.
OOF: Donald Trump Jr.’s Bold 'Hitler' Claim Gets Thrown Instantly Back At Him On Live TV
The son of the former president was given an awkward reminder after the vice presidential debate.
Junior should have learned by now that quality journalists are ALL better informed and smarter than he is.
... Vance was once a vocal Trump critic and got candid during a 2016 chat on Facebook with a friend.
“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler,” Vance wrote.
He has also called Trump an “idiot” and a “total fraud,” and called himself a “Never Trump guy.”
“I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place,” Vance told NPR in 2016....
