Question submitted to the Micosoft AI Copilot on 1/4/2025....
Me: According to the ghost writer of "the art of the deal", he interviewed donald trump a few times, then wrote the book. Given this, couldn't it be categorized as fiction? I don't think it's donald trump's advice on business, it is only presented as such. Yet he seems to take full credit for "writing" it. When his imput was minimal. That's my understanding, at least. I've seen the author talk about it on tv.
Copilot: You're right about Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of "The Art of the Deal." He has openly discussed how he wrote the book based on a few interviews with Donald Trump and his own observations. Schwartz has expressed regret over his involvement, stating that he took on the project for the money and that he now views the book as "blood money". [1] [2].
Schwartz has also mentioned that he believes the book should be categorized as fiction because it presents an idealized version of Trump that doesn't align with reality [3]. Despite this, Trump has taken full credit for the book and often references it as a testament to his business acumen.
It's an interesting situation where the lines between fact and fiction are blurred, and it raises questions about authorship and the portrayal of public figures.
Video: Nov 4, 2016. Tony Schwartz discusses The Truth About Trump at an Oxford Union Q&A. He has publically renounced "the art of the deal".
Video: Jan 22, 2021. Jennifer Palmieri sits down with the ghostwriter for Trump: The Art of the Deal, Tony Schwartz, to discuss what he feels is going in Trump's mind during the final days of his presidency.
Video:. Jan 13, 2024. Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen. We welcome back to the show, Tony Schwartz. A former columnist for The New York Post, and associate editor at Newsweek, he was also a reporter for The New York Times and a staff writer at New York Magazine and Esquire. In 1985, Schwartz began interviewing Donald Trump to ghostwrite Trump: "The Art of the Deal" for which he was given co-author credit. Art of the Deal was published in 1987; some say it sold Trump to the public as a successful businessman. Today, Tony will help us understand more fully who Trump was back then and who he has become.
At 45 minutes into the first video, Tony Schwartz says, "...when he came down from that escalator to announce his candidacy and he said, you know, "the people streaming in from Mexican from Mexico are rapists" -- that was not spontaneous. He'd been planning that line for a long long time. And he had figured out quite some years earlier that he could stoke the fears and interest of a certain constituency by creating a polarized world and setting up, in this case, Mexicans but subsequently Muslims and blacks and women and, you know, virtually everybody but white men, as the enemy. So I do think that there was a lot of conscious thinking about this.
What's interesting to me, over the last six weeks since Steve Bannon has taken over his campaign... Steve has been, and is a you know, leader of the what's now called the alt-right but you know in the old days would have been called the Ku Klux Klan.
Bill Ayers, the Weather Underground Terrorist and Ghost writer of Obama's "Dreams from My Father", was writing a fiction? Who knew? It's a good thing that Bill simultaneously launched Obama's political career or Barack'd still be a toady for Tom Ayers philanthropic corporate boards in Chicago spreading money around Far Left causes with him.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame Bill never got co-author credit and missed out on all those royalties!
Deleteps - Bannon ran Trump's campaign from prison? That must have been quite the trick.
Delete"Dreams from my father" wasn't ghost written by anyone. Barack Obama wrote it himself. And the info about Bannon is from 2016, not 2024. Was Steve Bannon in prison in 2016 too?
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