Former President Donald Trump launched a book of letters he received from global stars on Tuesday evening with a lament for the golden age of stage and screen. ‘Letters to Trump,’ includes messages from presidents, politicians and Hollywood superstars such as Kirk Douglas, golfing legend Arnold Palmer, music star Michael Jackson as well as Princess Diana and Oprah Winfrey. It is priced $99, although fans can get a signed copy for $399.
Trump’s Letters to Trump was explicitly marketed as a coffee-table book out for revenge. Donald Trump Jr., who co-founded Winning Team Publishing, promised that the collection of his father’s correspondence with famous people would expose his enemies’ hypocrisy. One of the pictures in the book consists of Monica Lewisnky and Bill Clinton posing.
Donald Trump comments on Jeb Bush
“The Bush family and I didn’t get along well, to put it mildly,” Trump notes in the book. Accordingly, there are jabs at the political clan throughout the book, though Trump pretends to take the high ground.
First, Trump complains that he personally did not understand one of President George H. W. Bush’s famous phrases. “He kept talking about ‘A Thousand Points of Light,’ and nobody really knew what the hell he was talking about,” Trump writes. “What did it all mean?”
He complains that former First Lady Barbara Bush “thought I was very mean to her sons,” when in reality the feud was their fault. But, he says magnanimously, “that was okay. I gave up on them a long time ago.”
Trump says former President George W. Bush “got us into the Middle East quicksand. After twenty-one years, millions of people dead, trillions of dollars spent, and the Middle East totally obliterated, we got out. It was a bad decision by him and probably a bad decision that was forced by Dick Cheney, a disastrous Vice President.” Okay, that’s fair. But then Trump makes quite the pivot, concluding, “In any event, I wish them all well. Lots of luck!”
While all of the other captions list the Bush family members’ titles and full names, W.’s younger brother is listed as simply “JEB!”
