Tag: Tony Schwartz

‘Art of the Deal’ co-author wants Trump’s 1987 to be reclassified as fiction: ‘I put lipstick on a pig’

Back in 1987, Tony Schwartz served as co-author for Donald Trump’s book, “The Art of the Deal.” And following this week’s New York Times report detailing the major financial losses Trump suffered between 1985 and 1994, Schwartz is wishing Trump’s memoir were no longer in circulation.

On May 8, Schwartz tweeted, “Given the Times report on Trump’s staggering losses, I’d be fine if Random House simply took the book out of print. Or recategorized it as fiction.”

That same day, Schwartz was interviewed by CNN’s Anderson Cooper and said of the president, “He has no guilt. All he wants to do is make the case that he would like to be true. While I do think he’s probably aware that more walls are closing around him than ever before, he does not experience the world in a way that an ordinary human being would.”

View the complete May 9 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.

‘Art of the Deal’ co-author: Trump would act like Kim Jong Un if he had the same powers

The following article by Max Greenwood was posted on the HIll website June 16, 2018:

Tony Schwartz, the author who ghostwrote President Trump‘s famous 1987 book “The Art of the Deal,” said Saturday that the president would act like North Korean leader Kim Jong Un if he were given the same authority.

Schwartz, who has been highly critical of Trump’s political career, accused the president of possessing the “lack of conscience,” “sociopathy” and “inner sense of emptiness” to go down the road of a dictator if he were permitted to do so. Continue reading “‘Art of the Deal’ co-author: Trump would act like Kim Jong Un if he had the same powers”