![]() ![]() ![]() The spokespeople for those imprints did not return a request for comment on the record. Trump could potentially work with one of the major publishing houses with imprints that have worked with Trumpworld figures, like Center Street at Hatchette, Threshold at Simon & Schuster, or Broadside Books at HarperCollins. 6, although his book was then picked up by conservative imprint Regnery.Ī spokesperson for Regnery, Lauren McCue, said in a statement: “We are happy to speak with President Trump when he is ready to publish his book.”ĭonald Trump holds up his 1987 book, "The Art of the Deal," as he speaks during a campaign stop Nov. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who objected to the election results on Jan. 6 insurrection and his peddling of election falsehoods since last November have made him radioactive in the Manhattan publishing world. “Any editor bold enough to acquire the Trump memoir is looking at a fact-checking nightmare, an exodus of other authors, and a staff uprising in the unlikely event they strike a deal with the former president.”īesides the factual issues that publishing a book would bring, Trump’s role in inciting the Jan. ![]() “It doesn’t matter what the upside on a Trump book deal is, the headaches the project would bring would far outweigh the potential in the eyes of a major publisher,” said Keith Urbahn, president and founding partner of Javelin, a literary and creative agency. None of the sources said they had heard about such potential book offers, and most said they wouldn’t touch a Trump project when he does start shopping a book around. POLITICO reached out to top publishers and editors at the “Big Five” publishing houses - Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan Publishers, and Simon & Schuster - to see if they had heard anything about any such deals Trump had been offered. But after the fact, they will stand by and say, ‘Let’s go.’” “And they sure wouldn’t admit it before the fact. ![]() “No morals, no nothing, just the bottom line,” he added. “If my book will be the biggest of them all, and with 39 books written or being written about me, does anybody really believe that they are above making a lot of money? Some of the biggest sleezebags on earth run these companies.” “That doesn’t mean I won’t accept them sometime in the future, as I have started writing the book,” the statement read. But in a statement on Monday afternoon to POLITICO, he insisted that “two of the biggest and most prestigious publishing houses have made very substantial offers which I have rejected.” Trump didn’t reveal who the two publishers were. In a statement last Friday, he said he had received two offers “from the most unlikely of publishers” but turned them down because he did “not want to do such a deal right now.” Trump has insisted that he has suitors for a book too. But his spokesperson Jason Miller insisted that he was “fine with it” and had “no issues.” There have been rumors and a report that Trump is privately angry over Pence’s book deal. Former Vice President Mike Pence scored a seven-figure deal for two books with Simon & Schuster - a decision that sparked some employees of the company, well-known Simon & Schuster authors, and others to circulate a petition accusing the storied book house of promoting bigotry. And the absence of Trump’s own words from the literary world is made even more pronounced by the fact that several of his top aides and former Cabinet officials are writing books of their own. president to struggle to score a major book deal after leaving office. ![]()
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