The Art of the Deal

If Books Could Kill

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

Arts, Politics, Books, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Before Donald Trump became America's most prominent politician and birth certificate inspector, he spent his days making everyone in New York City slightly uncomfortable. Michael and Peter discuss "The Art of the Deal," Trump’s 1987 bestseller chronicling his exploits as a celebrity slumlord.

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0:00.0	Michael?
0:02.0	What do you know about the art of the deal?
0:03.0	All I know is that I'm ready to confirm my suspicion
0:06.0	that staging a coup is roughly half as bad as being a New York real estate developer. All right I am going to send you the cover of this book. Well actually why don't you why don't you describe to me what it says?
0:31.0	Honestly, I sort of hate how like good the graphic design is.
0:35.7	It's a black background and gold letters of course
0:38.9	and it just says in huge font, Trump,
0:41.6	the art of the deal. Yeah yeah and then the author is Donald J Trump with
0:45.9	Tony Schwartz and it's a photo of Trump in front of like Vermont in November or something
0:52.2	that is Central Park.
0:53.8	Oh, really?
0:54.7	Come on.
0:56.6	I don't know.
0:57.8	They don't have trees in New York.
0:59.8	Have you heard of Donald Trump?
1:01.4	We know. You deciduous motherfucker is over there.
1:04.8	I have no idea what anything looks like.
1:06.4	So it's funny because it's this, the book says Trump in big letters at the top.
1:10.7	And I just sort of thought that was because Trump is the author and he was putting his name big but actually what's happening is that the full title of the book is Trump the art of the deal.
1:19.0	I'm pretty sure it's Vermont though Peter I see tall buildings in the background. A lot of New Yorkers make that mistake.
1:23.4	The book comes out in 1988, co-authored by Tony Schwartz, who's basically like a business journalist.
1:28.8	Pretty obvious that he's doing all of the writing here. It's not in Trump's voice. It doesn't have that Trump
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