Arnon Grunberg

Former friends

Kissing

On all those letters – Martin Pengelly in The Guardian:

‘Donald Trump’s forthcoming book of letters from famous but mostly former friends will include a missive from King Charles III, the Telegraph reported.

According to the report, the letter from then Prince Charles was sent in 1995, thanking Trump for an honorary membership at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and inviting him to London.

According to publicity materials, Letters to Trump contains 150 messages from figures also including Queen Elizabeth II, Kim Jong-un and Ronald Reagan.
Trump caused controversy last month when he said: “I knew them all – and every one of them kissed my ass, and now I only have half of them kissing my ass.”’

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‘Regarding the letter from Charles, the Telegraph said Trump had not obtained permission to publish it. It also said Trump’s book contained a letter from Charles’s first wife, Diana, Princess of Wales, from July 1997, shortly before her death in a car crash in Paris, thanking Trump for flowers sent for her birthday.
“They truly are quite magnificent, and I am deeply touched that you have thought of me in this special way,” Diana reportedly wrote.
Trump once told the radio host Howard Stern he thought he could have slept with Diana.
Not long after the princess’s death, Stern asked: “Why do people think it’s egoistical of you to say you could’ve gotten with Lady Di? You could’ve gotten her, right? You could’ve nailed her?” “I think I could have,” Trump said.
The Telegraph reported letters from other key world figures: the former British prime minister David Cameron (answering a complaint about windfarms near golf courses in Scotland), the current Russian president, Vladimir Putin, (an exchange regarding Moscow’s staging of Miss Universe in 2013) and Simon Cowell.
The light entertainment impresario wrote to Trump in 2009, sending a tape of Britain’s Got Talent and saying: “I would love you to be on it.”’

Read the article here.

They truly are quite magnificent.

Trump who discovered that the war against politeness, against civility, is the winning war in American politics, at least if you are Republican, can appreciate politeness, when it is coming from somebody like Lady Di.

This book must be better than all of Trump’s tweets.

As to the future of Trump.

The sequel to excitement is called boredom.

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