Trump Admits He Is Depressing

“I don’t think you’ll enjoy it. You’ll be very depressed when you read it, but we want to have it down for historic reasons.” So says Donald Trump about his planned book The Crime of the Century, which will address “the greatest hoax, heist … one of the greatest crimes in the history of our country.” It should go without saying that few details are available, except that it’s being put out, unsurprisingly, by Winning Team Publishing, which was co-founded by Donald Trump Jr. The imprint has published all of Trump’s post-presidential literary output to date—that is, a picture book.

Although Trump claimed last year to have “turned down two book deals,” the industry is skittish, to put it mildly, about signing him on as an author. “Books about Trump, his time in power and his refusal to admit defeat continue to be bestsellers,” noted The Guardian. “But Keith Urbahn, an agent behind many such books, told Politico: ‘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. Any editor bold enough to acquire the Trump memoir is looking at a factchecking nightmare, an exodus of other authors and a staff uprising.’”