I’ve posted in the past about how Donald Trump does not read books: http://schatjesshelves.blogspot.ca/2016/08/american-presidents-and-presidential.html. Ironically, he has inspired novels (http://schatjesshelves.blogspot.ca/2017/03/trump-inspired-novels.html) and lists of books to be read during his presidency (http://schatjesshelves.blogspot.ca/2017/02/what-to-read-during-trumps-presidency.html).
On March
15, in an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, Trump stated that he loved
to read: “Well, you know, I love to
read. Actually, I’m looking at a book, I’m reading a book, I’m trying to get
started. Every time I do about a half a page, I get a phone call that there’s
some emergency, this or that. But we’re going to see the home of Andrew Jackson
today in Tennessee and I’m reading a book on Andrew Jackson. I love to read. I
don’t get to read very much, Tucker, because I’m working very hard on lots of
different things, including getting costs down. The costs of our country are
out of control. But we have a lot of great things happening, we have a lot of
tremendous things happening.”
Using this
statement as inspiration, Katy Waldman wrote this comic scenario in Slate magazine: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/low_concept/2017/03/donald_trump_tries_to_read_a_book.html. Check it out and have a chuckle.
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