"...my favorite kind of satire; wonderfully observed and bitingly funny. It cuts so close to the bone, you'll think you're a staffer on the campaign. It's the perfect tonic to help you through these insane times."
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Rob Reiner, actor, director, producer
Nine-time Emmy Award-winning writer/producer Ed. Weinberger, known for his work on such legendary comedies as
The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi,
and
The Cosby Show
, imagines an alternate Trump 2020 presidential campaign in this hilarious new novel.
In
GOTCHA!
Weinberger creates a chaotic world inhabited by America's 45
th
President where cheating at golf is taken for granted; Fox anchors are valued advisors; and hydroxychloroquine is promoted as a COVID-19 cure.
Spanning the critical period from March 5, 2020 to January 24, 2021,
takes readers into Trump's private world as he meets with his re-election committee, has a hush-hush dinner with Laura Ingraham, makes an angry early-morning call to Don, Jr., and asks Melania whether his bullet-proof vest makes him look fat. Trump tries to rush through a COVID-19 vaccine; attempts to build rapport with African Americans; and even gets away with shooting a protester on Fifth Avenue-an incident applauded by the NRA.
With an entertaining mix of fiction and satire, this provocative novel looks into the corrupt, three-ring-circus that is Washington in the new normal.