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What is it about Trump that has 'inspired' so many to write books about him?

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As the article notes, every president has books written about them, their acts, their personalities, their quirks, but Trump is in a whole new field.
Trump books keep coming, and readers can’t stop buying

Since it was released in May, the latest book in the Hunger Games series, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” has sold 1.3 million copies, a home run of a bestseller by publishing’s standards.
Mary Trump’s memoir about her uncle, “Too Much and Never Enough,” outsold it in its first week.

Books about politicians and government are not considered surefire commercial hits. But since President Donald Trump entered office, books about his campaign, his administration, his family, his business, his policies, even his golf game have poured out of publishing houses big and small.
(. . .)
In the last four years, there have been more than 1,200 unique titles about Trump, compared to around 500 books about former President Barack Obama and his administration during Obama’s first term, according to an analysis by NPD BookScan. There have been so many high-profile books about the Trump era that there’s even a forthcoming book about all the Trump books: “What Were We Thinking,” by The Washington Post book critic Carlos Lozada, who surveys some 150 titles that try to explain how Trump won and has governed, and what his presidency tells us about the country that elected him.

Also driving the unusually high volume and sales of Trump books is the churn of turnover in the West Wing, accelerating the normal timeline for insider accounts, which usually arrive after a president has left office. Trump has expressed his outrage over some of the books, responding with irate tweets and legal complaints that drive even more news coverage and further sales boosts.
 
I think trump sometimes brags to the wrong people, like authors.
 
As the article notes, every president has books written about them, their acts, their personalities, their quirks, but Trump is in a whole new field.
There are trillions at stake.
 
As the article notes, every president has books written about them, their acts, their personalities, their quirks, but Trump is in a whole new field.

Humans love a train wreck. Novels that are shocking and disturbing sell.

Trump's life is a garbage heap of every seamy, vile, disgusting thing imaginable.
 
To answer the OP, one word. Money.
 
What is it about Trump that has 'inspired' so many to write books about him?

Trump's efforts to bend the country toward autocracy which is the ultimate expression of Minority Rule which coincidentally is what the GOP is all about. Thats it in a nutshell.
 
As the article notes, every president has books written about them, their acts, their personalities, their quirks, but Trump is in a whole new field.
$$$
 
Humans love a train wreck. Novels that are shocking and disturbing sell.

Trump's life is a garbage heap of every seamy, vile, disgusting thing imaginable.

I have eight or nine books that are all anti-Trump. I like to read negative books about him because I despise Trump so much and it supplies me with more ammo to destroy him in discussions.
 
The real question is how many people have to write books saying the same thing about the man until his supporters start thinking that hey this stuff is probably true?
 
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