You Can’t Spell America Without Me:

You Can’t Spell America Without Me:  The Really Tremendous Inside Story of my Fantastic First Year as President Donald J. Trump (A So-Called Parody) by Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen      

 Audio Book:  5hrs, 57mins        Paperback Book 384pgs.                                  

If you like political comedy you will enjoy this book.    Historical History meets tongue in cheek humor in this sometimes biographical sometimes spot on humorous comments that the Donald has made and ones that it is quite possible he was thinking about saying.    Nothing is off-limits in this hysterical send up and truly it is so funny.    From poking fun at Trump wanting to buy the white house and lease it back to the government to calling Trump towers the North White House and  Trump’s Miralago the Southern Whitehouse to referring to the Royal Family as the Queen and all those others, to explaining his riding in a golf cart filled with secret service while all the other world leaders in the group walked to their destination without body guards –“it’s not like anyone would want to assassinate them.”   This is such a hilarious spoof that is so true to character using Trump’s own words that are often funny on their own, “That Kim Jong-un is one tough cookie.”       Jabs are taken at Hilary Clinton, President Barack Obama, Chris Christie, German Prime Minister, Angela Merkel,  no person in politics is safe from becoming the butt of serious political humor.    From Fake news to often referring to his brilliant uncle, John Trump from MIT, to that Russian stuff, to his Slovenian current wife, Melania who was born and raised in Yugoslavia when it was still a communist regime before it became Slovenia which is probably why Melania and Putin had so much to talk and laugh about over dinner.    Totally irreverent about as politically correct as a certain President’s tweets – oh yeah, the tweets are brought up, too.   All that is the Donald is played with in this fun book.    I really enjoyed it, I highly recommend it for light hearted folk who love a laugh and for the politically oriented that allow a bit of fun poked at both sides under their radar.   I don’t think younger folks would get as much a kick out of the jokes as adults, but if you like Saturday Night Live (SNL) you will get the humor here.

 - Shirley J