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County Dublin, Ireland.
One of Donald Trump’s stated priorities is to preserve American culture, yet he told New Republic he only skims ‘passages, areas, chapters’ and otherwise ‘doesn’t have the time’ to read. His ignorance of the American art world’s growing multiculturalism makes sense.
The 1987 book Trump purportedly authored, The Art of the Deal, was actually ghost-written by Tony Schwartz, who came to regret his role as Dr Frankenstein in popularising Trump’s incarnation of the American Dream. Afterwards, Schwartz said he preferred the title, The Sociopath, considering the staggeringly dangerous, primarily self-aggrandising protagonist, who’s likely to trigger nuclear war and introduce press censorship and martial law. Though well remunerated, the deplorable experience of working on the book spurred Schwartz to reassess his own values and switch career. The election result dismayed him.
Trump convinced media outlets including CNN of his ongoing church attendance as a Presbyterian Protestant. He said he regularly attended the Marble Collegiate Church of the Reformed Church denomination. It shares location on Fifth Avenue in New York with Trump’s HQ in his fifty-eight story tower. Founded in 1628, its most famous preacher, self-help movement pioneer who wrote The Power of Positive Thinking, Dr Norman Vincent Peale, presided for half a century till 1984. Trump claimed he saw him and was impressed.
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