American Tantrum: The Donald J. Trump Presidential Archives

by Anthony Atamanuik, Neil Casey, Howard Fineman (Foreword by)

Overview

A devastatingly hilarious satire that cuts closer to the truth of than any nonfiction account: The creator and star of Comedy Central’s acclaimed The President Show opens the vault and imagines Donald J. Trump’s presidential archives, exposing documents from his childhood in Queens to his toddlerhood in the Oval Office.

The Presidential Archives. Every other president has made a mess of it. Barack Obama is currently spending millions of dollars (probably trillions, if you want to know the truth) building a monument to himself. And they don’t even charge admission at these places! No wonder this country is a zillion dollars in debt. And what’s the point?!: These guys are already out of office and old news. We hate to say it, folks, but the presidential library is totally broken and needs to be made great again.

America, we herewith present the FIRST AND ONLY presidential library to be released in real time, while the president is still in office. (Why delay?) But wait, THERE’S MORE! Who wants the hassle of having to go to some boring building in the middle of nowhere? (The Eisenhower Library is in Abilene, Kansas – yikes!) What if you could have your favorite president’s library delivered to your home, today! THAT’S NOT ALL! What if you could carry that library with you EVERYWHERE!

Introducing THE DONALD J. TRUMP PRESIDENTIAL ARCHIVES: VOLUME 1. It’s all here: the 45^th U.S. president’s letters, diaries, Oval Office recordings, Moscow hotel tapes, grand jury testimony, sealed indictments, financial records, subpoenas, dossiers, Michael Cohen recordings, AND SO MUCH MORE! Never has wisdom been so accessible!

It’s the last book you will ever need to buy. Or maybe just the last book published, period. Get yours NOW before the first amendment is abolished!

Don’t miss VOLUME 2: THE PRISON YEARS – coming soon! Hopefully!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062851918
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/22/2019
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Anthony Atamanuik can be seen as the host/“President Trump” on Comedy Central’s The President Show. Anthony has been performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York for seventeen years. He recurred on 30 Rock as “Anthony” and recently appeared on Difficult People (Hulu), Broad City (Comedy Central), and Tracey Breaks the News (BBC One). Additionally, he wrote for the series Time Traveling Bong on Comedy Central. Selected as one of Variety’s 2016 Comics To Watch, he has received critical acclaim and acquired a fervent new fan base with his pitch-perfect Donald Trump impression, which has also been featured heavily on The Howard Stern Show. Anthony can be seen in the upcoming final season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. He is a WGA Award nominee for his work on season 1 of The President Show.

Neil Casey is an actor, writer, and proud member of the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild. He has written for Saturday Night Live, Inside Amy Schumer, Kroll Show, Mystery Science Theater 3000, and The President Show, and appeared in Ghostbusters, A Futile and Stupid Gesture, Silicon Valley, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and The President Show.

Table of Contents

Foreword Howard Fineman xi

The Project 1

Archivist's Note: Introducing the Presidential Pocket Library 3

First Interview with President Donald J. Trump 11

The Donald 19

Early Life 25

Map: Mary Trump's Screaming Places 30

A Leader Comes of Age 41

The View from the Top 55

The Campaign 85

The Presidency 109

Birth of a Statesman 118

Winning Sickness 178

Lawyers, Sons, and Money 214

Which Hunt Is Witch 257

The Future 275

Epilogue 291

Acknowledgments 297

Editorial Reviews

Anthony Atamanuik did a fantastic job writing this hilarious book! His book has my Complete and Total Endorsement!

MARK HAMILL

Thankfully, for our nation and our world, we have a brilliant improv comic, impressionist, sketch artist, Comedy Central star, and now author to help us understand, survive, and laugh our way through Trump’s epic American Tantrum. His name is Anthony Atamanuik and IMHO he is a genius.” — HOWARD FINEMAN

“Anthony Atamanuik did a fantastic job writing this hilarious book! His book has my Complete and Total Endorsement!” — MARK HAMILL, via Twitter

“Quick-witted. … Well-executed, whip-smart. … Expertly skewers a disastrous presidency in action.” — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

Thankfully, for our nation and our world, we have a brilliant improv comic, impressionist, sketch artist, Comedy Central star, and now author to help us understand, survive, and laugh our way through Trump’s epic American Tantrum. His name is Anthony Atamanuik and IMHO he is a genius.

HOWARD FINEMAN

2018-09-02

A quick-witted stand-up comedian parodies the ringleader of the presidential three-ring circus.

As a fitting companion piece to actor/comedian Atamanuik's weekly Comedy Central Trump-lampooning The President Show, this snarky sendup caricatures the president's precarious and outrageous antics before, during, and after his election. The book is divided into sections easily digested individually or altogether but preferably before a rapt crowd of politically savvy dinner guests. Our narrator is fictitious veteran columnist Kelsey Nelson, a former editor at Golf & Stream magazine. While on the green at Mar-a-Lago, Nelson befriended Trump and inspired him to commission the creation of a first-ever Presidential Pocket Library while still serving his first term in office. They hoped to pre-emptively crash-publish this "living document," particularly before Obama was able to open his library (after all, "his time is done"). The resulting series of egocentric, self-congratulatory interviews, lurid telephone transcriptions, damning indictments, life snippets from childhood to military service to his "first love," Mar-a-Lago, and the unpatriotic histrionics at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. are uniformly appalling and rollicking. While the author's material is (just mildly) exaggerated, it is a depressingly accurate reflection of the president's clumsy legacy. Highlights include an imagined Trump Tower rental application ("name of daughter, mistress, or awful son who will technically own property"), scandalous Miss Universe Moscow and North Korea Summit itineraries, official calls to Area 51 ("what if an alien picks up?"), a 2020 re-election plan, a debate prep session with Roger Ailes (Trump: "Let's bring a black baby to the debate! He can sit in the front row and then we'll kick him out"), and riffs on Michael Cohen and Robert Mueller. Trumpisms and buffoonery abound throughout the well-executed, whip-smart narrative, and it's all fun and games until readers realize just how unerringly close to the bone Atamanuik's material cuts.

Readers who haven't yet reached Trump burnout status will enjoy this spoof, which expertly skewers a disastrous presidency in action.

Kirkus Reviews