The world is crashing in on Donald Trump. Arraigned on a 34-count indictment accusing him of falsifying business records to cover up hush money paid to a porn star, Trump also faces an investigation into his handling of classified documents after leaving office, a lawsuit claiming that he lied to insurers by wildly overvaluing his assets, and an investigation into his attempts to interfere with the 2020 election results. Trump needs something, anything, to help him claw back a scrap of dignity from the jaws of certain destruction. Luckily, he has just the thing: a 12-year-old Post-It note from Jay Leno reading, “Yo Donald! You da man!”
The Leno Post-It constitutes an entire double-page spread in Letters to Trump, an expensive, improbable, vainglorious, unintentionally hilarious, and potentially illegal book of correspondence spanning the last four decades of Donald Trump’s life. Released this week, priced at $99 (or $399 if you want it signed), Letters to Trump would easily qualify as the most nutso get-rich-quick scheme of Trump’s career were it not for the fact that he literally just released an NFT of himself dressed up as a superhero, and there is no way on God’s green earth that this book will ever make him rich.
