A grifter’s grind.

(Illustration found here).

In a world gone near-mad with shitstorms festering all over — war in Ukraine, democracy in peril, crazy-ass truckers are closing down cities, and now T-Rump has a literary grift with the same inept, lazy and fact-free menu like all of anything he’s involved with or is around. A memoir of sorts, a big,coffee-table photo book of all the greatest accomplishments and wonders he performed as president — shit on a stick.
Published originally in December, “Our Journey Together” is getting notice from the sane side of the tracks.

Book critic Ron Charles received his ‘official copy‘ yesterday and relayed some thoughts about it at The Washington Post this afternoon — it’s not pretty at all:

Images are the perfect lexicon for Trump to articulate a fantastical revision of his four chaotic years in office. Freed from the complexities of language or the context of history, the former president spins a dreamscape of adulation and triumph.
A shot of his inauguration crowd spread out across the Mall doesn’t have to contend with his administration’s first official alternative fact.

It’s remarkable how effectively this presentation captures Trump’s wandering mind and self-sabotaging bitterness. Early in the book, there’s a two-page spread showing men repairing a grandfather clock: “After eight years of President Obama,” Trump writes, “we needed to make the White House GREAT again.”
No moment, no matter how celebratory, can calm this author’s need to lash out at his perceived enemies. Another spread shows Trump talking from a podium about his historic tax cut with “some conservative patriots and some weak RINOs.”
Even death can’t quell the man’s bile: A photo in the Oval Office of Trump speaking to John and Cindy McCain says, “John McCain visited me in the White House, asking for a job for his wife. I am smiling, but I didn’t like him even a little bit.”
Below a photo of an intimate dinner party that includes Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Mark Zuckerberg, Trump writes, “Mark Zuckerberg would come to the White House and kiss my ass.”
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, shown negotiating in a conference room, is “f—ing CRAZY — hence the name Crazy Nancy!” (That is one of the few captions written in Sharpie, and it hovers over an image of the presidential seal.)

In short, this is a memoir spun from the thin gruel of musty propaganda and cherished grudges. Turning these pages is like watching an old man dust his Hummel figurines and whine about the neighbors.
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What’s most striking, though, is the book’s sterility, its determined lack of intimacy.
Although many photos feature his family, the majority of pictures appear to have been drawn from official ceremonies, public appearances and work duties. Only a handful of photos across more than 300 pages show Trump without a tie.
He notes a celebration of his birthday by showing a full-page photo of the official dinner menu.
Trump closes the book with three double-spreads in a row of large crowds of fans. The last photo is a close-up of Trump alone, looking solemnly to the side. Then there’s a Sharpie note: “America, our journey continues. Together we will take our country back. We will WIN!”

Supposedly, they already sold about 200,000 copies, low on the memoir scale (Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” became the best selling book of 2018 after the first 15 days and reportedly some 15 million copies sold to this point)

Unrelated this afternoon, though it should be and is a continual pisser:

Someone tell Merrick Garland. https://t.co/rIJBOlE4mx

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) February 11, 2022

Garland is a baby and needs to get off his ass and go to freaking work!. As tengrain quipped this morning: ‘Can someone hold a mirror under AG Garland’s nose, just to check that he’s actually breathing, please?‘

Yet here we are once again…

(Illustration out front is of a New York state high-school student exhibit: ‘The piece was displayed during student-driven art show at Shenendehowa High School. It consisted of at least 12 identical black-and-white pictures of Donald Trump. There was also a sign above the pictures that read, “Draw on Me.” Using markers from the art classroom, some students opted to scribble critical messages and profanities on the pictures‘ — and found here).