Gullible's Travels
- Authors
- Kitman, Marvin
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press
- Tags
- political science;presidents;government;american politics;comedy;alternate history;political philosophy;white house;feminism;geopolitics;funny books;white elephant gifts;funny gifts;political books;politics;joke book;humor;world politics;american government;international politics;american political thought;politics in america;the white house;fun gifts;gifts for history buffs;secret santa gifts;political science books;american government and politics;us government;funny political gifts
- Date
- 2020-05-26T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 3.29 MB
- Lang
- en
How to have fun hating TrumpKitman describes the land of Gulliblesylvania as a democratic country ruled by 34.9 % of the people, "a minority better known as 'the base,' of whom a candidate said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and they would still vote for him." At first Kitman assumed that Trump's candidacy was a publicity stunt. After he realized it was serious, as a satirist he felt very lucky and began to keep a comical journal, modeled after A Journal of the Plague Year which Daniel Defoe described as "Observations of the most remarkable occurrence, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665"which is not to compare the Trump administration to the bubonic plague, Kitman hastens to add. "For one thing, as our POTUS has been telling us, he's made America Great againAND IT ONLY TOOK A YEAR AND A HALF!" Kitman adds, "And I have never before had such a good time observing and writing about the follies of our...