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Donald Trump Thinks Cheney’s Book is “Very, Very Angry and Nasty,” Won’t Be Reading It

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In today’s episode of “From The Desk Of Donald Trump,” Donald Trump reviews the book that’s got everyone talking — without having even read it! He knows how he feels, though, and he thinks that Dick Cheney‘s memoir, In My Time, is “very, very angry and nasty” and he doesn’t plan on reading it. It’s hard to say if this is Trump’s attempt at literary criticism, media criticism, or if it’s just an ad hominem attack against Cheney.

Noting the way Cheney frames the sticky parts of his book — like the time they decided to go into Iraq — with “As I remember it”‘s, Trump suggests that maybe the whole thing is just a lie because, “when someone says that to me, they are lying.” Which is actually an interesting close reading of the book! Truth is often murky in memoir, and as outlets scramble for new and newsworthy revelations in the 576 pages of this book, it seems that that’s often been forgotten. To call the whole book a lie might be harsh, but Trump’s skepticism seems healthy — for those of us who have read the book and those of us who have just followed coverage of it alike.

Mostly, though, Trump’s problems with the book seem to stem from pre-existing issues he has with the former vice president. “I didn’t like Cheney when he was a vice president and I don’t like him now,” Trump says, making clear that most of the problems he has with the book are really problems he has with the man who wrote it.

He gets down to it in the end, saying, “Here’s a guy who did a rotten job as a vice president, nobody liked him, tremendous divisiveness, and he’s gonna to make a lot of money on the book.” Which, well, actually: maybe Trump’s just jealous.

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  • Johnjguy

    Well, it will be interesting to hear what the range of reviewers have to say on the topic. I wonder will peoples’ response to Cheney have changed much over the years…

  • Anonymous

    Hmmm. Wonder how “Thuh Donald” would have reviewed “Heart of Darkness”? You know, if he just didn’t like Conrad ’cause he was Polish, and all.

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    Tea Party Christians like Donald better when he talks about Obama’s birth certificate and Kenyan roots.

  • Anonymous

    Donald, you’re irrelevant, nobody gives a flying ____ what you think or will or will not be reading. Go away!!!

  • ElJeffyBovido

    Felix is just about to tell us how the Donald is a creation of the LBRUL media.

    Right, Felix?

  • gordonbloyershow

    Trump has never read a book. He has no idea what he is talking about.

  • Popcorn2525

    I agree with Trump for once he got this right. Chaney is a horrible man and how anyone can buy this book after the millions he made from Iraq war is beyond me. I hope in drowns in his OIL. and hungry.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    Are wrong if you don’t care about Donald Trump then don’t click the headlines. And Trump is right about Cheney and I will not be reading the book either Cheney is going about it all the wrong way and I don’t by for a second that Powell was forced out of the job as cheney claimed in his book. I believe that it was agreed to that Powell would serve Bush for 1 term and be done.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    And your claim is a lie you have no idea what your talking about so your wrong.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    Donald Trump is right about Dick Cheney I haven’t liked what Cheney has said in the media arounds about Powell and Condi Rice. I don’t for second by Cheney’s claim that Powell was forced out I believe that Powell & Bush agreed he would only serve the one term. And I have no interest in reading Cheney’s book.

  • Anonymous

    Birther says what?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Donald Trump is funny.

  • Sharpo

    by your own logic, you are a creation of LBRUL media.

    why are you a coward?

  • Nature Freak

    The Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump was hilarious! I give the Donald credit. He sat through some vicious jokes at his expense.

  • ganymede

    Some of these Mediaite headlines are very satirical and remind me of The Onion headlines. Donald Trump who recently suggested we should take over the Libyan oil fields has a problem with someone even more stupid and venal than he.  I find it impossible listening to Cheney being interviewed about his book and Trump is a complete waste of time. What I’d like to see is Trump or another puffed up idiot saying that maybe Cheney should be yanked into court and have to answer for his lies and other immoral acts like needlessly destroying a country (Iraq) and being responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people along with the many young Amereicans slaughtered and maimed in this crazy misbegotten war.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Smith/100001741334953 Gregory Smith

    Nice going, Donald. The left always hated you and now the right hates you to. Even I, someone who used to defend you, hates you. Here’s some advice, how about you try reading a book before you trash it? Is that too much to ask? 

  • Nature Freak

    Ironic, isn’t it.
    Donald himself seems to have a deep neo-con streak, yet he disdains Cheney.
    Boggles the mind.
    I still find Trump entertaining on occasion. At least the Donald is just talk. Dick Cheney actually did immoral acts overseas.

  • Anonymous

    Mind explaining how Cheney made million from the Iraq war?  Just curious.  

    Perhaps it’s Chaney who is a horrible man – don’t know him.

  • Anonymous

    He was was he now.  Do tell….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

    I have a book he wrote on the art of making a deal.  Ghost written?  I don’t know.

  • Anonymous

    It is funny that Trump rips into Cheney over being divisive; full of negative comments about people; and making millions from writing a book about how great a job he did.  Ironically, the people of Alaska would say exactly the same about Sarah Palin.

  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    How does he know it is “very, very angry and nasty” if he has never read it?  And is this guy really calling someone else nasty?

  • Stoogedude

    If Donald Trump doesn’t like it when people are “very, very angry and nasty”, he’s definitely not going to like what one Donald J. Trump has had to say about Obama recently.

  • Anonymous

    ‘ HE’S BACK ‘. Too bad he’s back as a weasely liberal who will do or say ANYTHING if he or she believes it might garner some favor, or votes. 

    These words coming from Leona Helmsley’s male counterpart is laughable….at best.

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like war within the Bush Administration, no wonder it was a disaster.   After reading Paul O’Neil’s book I learned the Bush administration was one big joke.  

  • Bob

    Still waiting on Trump the Liar to release his tax returns, as he promised. And for him tell us what ‘amazing stuff’ his super-secret birther task force investigators found in Hawaii.

    Until he does both, no credible media outlet should bother having him as a guest.

  • Alexandra

    Ol’ 5 Vietnam deferments Cheney sure fluffs up his chicken hawk feathers and sticks out his chicken hawk chest when he gets to send others flippantly into war.

  • Anonymous

    He is out of date..
    http://www.oyunarus.com

  • Glutton

    What the heck is going on? For the first time in my entire life, I’m finding myself siding with Dick Cheney. Why did the Donald decide that it was a good idea to get into politics? Whatever respect I had for this man is now lost. Every time he talks politics he ends up looking like a fool. Just stop it Donald, you’re destroying your image the same way Hugh Hefner destroyed his image after doing “the Girls Next Door”. Epic PR fail!

  • Lizbeth

    He made millions off of Iraq by assigning a little energy vendor called Halilburton, to restore Iraq’s oil industry.  A company that Cheney previously served as CEO and still had financial assets in.  Funny how they didn’t allow other companies to bid on that major government contract. 

  • JohnJGuy

    ..

  • Anonymous

    DONALD TRUMP,
    You’ve never been angry and nasty?   You don’t have to read Dick Cheney’s book.  You obviously don’t like the TRUTH.   Buy fiction.
    Delores Smith
    Delores109@cox.net

  • Anonymous

    seriously girlfriend  - you don’t know much about much do you?  Haliburton, was and still is the major company equipped to deal in foreign lands.  Was so before Bush, after Bush and is still there.  Had nothing to do with where Cheney was or wasn’t.  

    Tell me about Cheney’s financial “assets” in Haliburton?  Tell me about the no bid contracts before and after Bush.  Do you think there might be a reason for “no bid” contracts?  

    Do you even know what Haliburton does?  

    You read someone’s blo who was just above a garden variety slug on the i.q. meter and you went with their “vast” knowledge.  

    Go read and learn there and then you won’t make these baseless, nasty, assumptions that are about as far removed from the truth as Maxine Waters and Charlie Rangle.  

  • Anonymous

    yah and Powell decided he liked Bush so much that he went marching over to the other side.  Seriously, think before you write.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    u blow Trump

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    You need to seriously think before you write Seek since your wrong. Cheney is wrong about Powell and it is nothing but lies Powell will support conservative since Powell is a conservative I’m right and your wrong.

  • Mari2JJ

    Yes, that prattle about Obama’s birth certificate is so like the true racist that the donald truly is.  The poor thing has this fixation and he sets out to totally rearrange facts with big time distortions to TRY to prove his point.  But I happened to meet the OB nurse in Hawaii who was lhis mom’s OB nurse at Kapiolani hospital.  she just had a big, big guffaw when i called her and asked her if Obama was stretching the truth about his Hawaii birth.  Like I say, she says she can always give first hand knowledge that Obama was born in Hawaii.  But do not expect facts to clear up this racist swill for the Donald.  He is just determined to go with thise big fat lies!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    Donald Trump isn’t a liberal so your claim which is a lie.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    You must be talking about Obama administration sense it has been a disaster and big joke I do like Obama as a person hasn’t been a leader and has created more of a mess. Your wrong about Bush since all claims about Bush are lies.

  • Anonymous

    Have you been living on another planet for the last couple of years?  Powell supported Obama – how conservative was that?  

    You need to seriously get your facts in order before you attempt to “correct” someone.  Powell was whatever was expedient for Powell to be.  He doesn’t have too many fans in the conservative community.

    How does it feel to be wrong twice in a row? 

    just add you to my “rock” pile. lol

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    All of your claims which are lies Donald is right Cheney is wrong so get it right. Hugh Hef didn’t destroyed his image either by doing girls next door which was a pretty entertaining show. Your wrong.

  • Anonymous

    The Republicans/Teabaggers have been in the way of progress.  So all claims about Bush are lies?  Really? All?  The Iraq war was one big lie!!  You’ve been hooked up to the Kool-Aid machine a little too long.  

  • Hagen619dj

    Oh, get over it!  He challenged Obama over the birth certificate.  He got it out there….even tho we all know it’s not a true birth certificate. Obama has bought his way into presidency and he will buy himself into anything else.  He is no saint…nor is donald trump.  If he is going by what Cheney  is like as a personality (in Donald’s mind) than by all means don’t read the book.  Everyone writes about themselves while in an important position. They see things by their point of view. Twins could write a book and both have a different point of view. If Donald is put out by the money cheney will get….too bad.  He has enough of his own already to worry about that. It’s just a difference in personalities between these two men.

  • Hagen619dj

    What’s funny about this book controversary….is that no one….none of you will really know who is lying and who is not. You can agrue about it all you want…and not solve a thing. But you  can be sure that when it gets to the end of this constroversary…someone is going to hollar…………..race.  Sickening!

  • Hagen619dj

    Your wrong….no your wrong………..your  wrong……no your wrong….   Interesting writing.

  • Anonymous

    Shazam!!!

  • waiting for 11-2012

    Dick Cheney is a great American

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZBLKJM6R7ULM7GTKGNVDOQYWOI daisymae

    I agree Bob.  Big whoopin’ deal.  Drump won’t read the book, like me and millions of other Americans.  Drump is so scathing, I can’t stand it! 

  • Bob

    “He got it out there….even tho we all know it’s not a true birth certificate.”
    wow. you truly are beyond help.
    also, we landed on the moon, Elvis is dead and there are no aliens at Area 51.

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