Book review of Michael Cohen’s Disloyal…
Wednesday, September 30th, 2020Disloyal. Michael Coen, author (Skyhorse Publishing, 2020). Of all the tell-alls about Trump aka Il Duce aka Narcissus le Grand aka that “f&%$ing moron” (SecState Tillerson quote), this one was the most enjoyable to read so far. (I’m sure there’ll be more if he gets another term–God help us!) I don’t know if a ghost-writer was used (the author claims he wrote it using pen and legal pads in his cell), but it’s well-written, a memoir more like a novel portraying the dark, psychotic mind of the most dangerous man on Earth. The difference with a novel? This is all reality, or, if you insist, a portrait of the fantasy world mentally ill Trump lives in. It’s very entertaining. I’m reluctant to confess that. But it also reconfirmed all the bad things I know about the orange-haired devil…and more. Perhaps as part of Il Duce’s faux “patriotism course” where he wants to brainwash grade school children, we should also include this book as required reading in all high school civics courses as lessons for what a responsible electorate should NOT do. If Trump’s presidency doesn’t destroy this country, I’ll be surprised.
“Oh,” you might say, especially if you’re one of Trump’s fanatic followers, “Cohen is just a disgruntled Trump ex-employee.” I’m sure Moscow Mitch, Loco Lindsey, Jimmy “Jones” Jordan, and other Trump toadies are all saying that. They think rational voters will swallow their damn poisoned Kool-Aid. To them and every other naysayer, I counter that with, “Read the book if you can stop bloviating long enough.” From a “f&^%ing moron” to soldiers being “suckers” and “losers,” even while killing thousands of US citizens with his mishandling of the COVID pandemic, Trump’s actions are plain for any rational person to see. With this book, you’ll discover that what you see is just the tip of the iceberg. There aren’t enough awful adjectives to describe this despicable excuse of a human being.
Cohen belongs in jail too, of course. His mea culpa here is a great service to the US, though, because of the coming elections. He allows us to enter the fanatic, feverish mind of Trump, and that mind is a psychotic morass of darkness and evil. That’s what’s so scary—a Hitler for the 21st century. Those mental health experts weren’t wrong. He belongs in a straitjacket and a padded cell…for the rest of his life!