Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

This is a satirical look at what would happen if Trump was sabotaging himself so Clinton got elected.   The forward, which is written by the author and in his own voice, sets the scenario up logically: why else would Trump shoot himself in the foot so often?   Add to this the fact that he's made contributions to the Clinton's in the past (although on Google I can only find contributions to the Clinton Foundation), and if you look at Trump's claims that business does better under democrats than republicans, it makes sense for him to want a democrat in office.  

I'm not saying that this is really the case, but rather showing that the author did research, and put together a factual argument for this being the case, rather than just writing crackfic, and putting together an outrageous premise and running with it.   I'm not saying crackfic doesn't have it's place, and done properly, it can be a whole lot of fun.   I'm not even looking down on crackfic, but given the tone of this book which mimics Trump pretty perfectly, I think that the research and reasonableness add to the mimicry to make this seem more real.    More solid.   One or the other wouldn't make sense, but together, this comes together to make a perfect book. 

The rest of the book is Trump's confession on sabotaging the republicans.   It's a humorous, unofficial 'memoir' that skewers Trump's whole race.   It's clever, and it's subversive of the memoir genre, and this election in general.  It's actually fare more classy than I expected, too.   I downloaded almost everything that was free about Trump, not expecting much from any of them, and then this came along.  

Trump's smarminess ooziness throughout this book.   He's the best, he could have won, no doubt, if he'd wanted to.   He's just aware that what he's saying is stupid and racist and he's looking down on those who agree with him.   See, he wants to make America great again, he just has to show everyone how stupid and ignorant they've gotten first.   This is all just a huge prank!

It works on a couple different levels for me.   It's funny to know Trump would be pissed off if he knew about this book, and it also calms my anxiety about him potentially winning.   Also, as a role-player, I obsessed over speech patterns.  I would watch the shows again and again to nail it.  The author here does that.   He plays around with it a little: a whole book, no matter how short, in Trump's rambling, incoherency would be painful.   He curbs that, even erases it, but uses enough of the short sentences, overconfidence, bravado, and other quirks in Trump's speech that it still smacks of authenticity. 

I laughed out loud more than I have during this election.   Thanks, book.   Thanks, author.  I needed this, so much that I looked up if he had any other books.   He does, but it's about Lil' Wayne.   I'm intrigued, but I know so little about Lil' Wayne.   I've had a couple songs I liked where he's been singing along with the main artist, but I don't really know his body of work.   I'm impressed enough with this short freebie to make it a point to listen to some of Lil' Wayne's work before I decide on if I want to read a whole book about him. 

By the way, I also tweeted the author about loving this book.   It's going to be free for a couple days longer - four yesterday and closer to three, maybe three and a half - today.   Here's the link to download it.   It's my favorite thing to come out of this election cycle so far.