The Artlessness of the Trumpian Deal
In the beginning... Towards the end of the Reaganomics era, The Art of the Deal revealed many details of Donald Trump, including an 11-step formula for business success. While the release party took place at Trump Tower, he started dabbling in national politics 2 months beforehand. A full-page advertisement in major newspapers in September 1987 laid into Washington for helping fund allies' defence spending. " There's nothing wrong with America's Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can't cure." The "Draft Trump" movement was meant to be promotion for the book along with its political overtone/undertone. Publishers Weekly called it a "boastful, boyishly disarming, thoroughly engaging personal history." Journalist John Tierney observed that Trump "appears to have ignored some of his own advice due to well-publicized problems with his banks." Some have seen him as having been a "poster child for the '...