Trump’s $75 coffee table book with captions written by him has raked in $20M in less than two months
Trump’s $75 coffee table picture book with captions written by him has raked in $20 MILLION in sales in less than two months
Trump’s book filled with pictures and punchy hand-written captions is a stark departure from his predecessors’ detailed, reflective post-presidency memoirsOur Journey Together was published by Winning Team Publishing, founded by Republican operative Sergio Gor and Donald Trump Jr.Gor told CNN people ordering copies now may have to wait until late Feb to get itSigned copies that retail for $230 are sold out on the book’s web pageTrump is the only published author for Winning Team so far, but Gor told DailyMail.com that they’ll also release a book by Charlie Kirk
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Donald Trump‘s coffee table book Our Journey Together has raked in a hefty $20 million in a sales in the less than two months since its debut, it was reported on Monday.
The book, a departure from traditional post-presidential memoirs that involve detailed reflections on the commander-in-chief’s White House and hundreds of pages of narrative, went on sale less than two months ago.
The collection of images from the Trump presidency and handwritten captions by the former president himself also lined his pockets with a multi-million dollar advanced payment, sources told DailyMail.com.
News of the book’s impressive run so far was first reported by CNN.
Copies of the book are available on the publisher’s website, titled 45books.
An unsigned version retails for about $75, while a copy with Trump’s instantly recognizable signature is offered at $230. The latter sold out less than two days after going on sale.
Sergio Gor, a longtime Republican operative who’s behind Winning Team Publishing, which released the book, told DailyMail.com: ‘President Donald Trump’s success in publishing is unmatched. No one has ever sold a premium product this fast to such a large number of people.’
Monday’s report credits the unique messages as a main facet of the book’s unexpected popularity.
In pages obtained by DailyMail.com, the president looks back on his foreign policy in his signature blunt phrasing, writing under a picture of China’s President Xi Jinping, ‘President Xi understood we had to get tough, but we were making true progress. If COVID didn’t happen, our nations would have both prospered.
He also took aim at members of his own administration. In an image featuring Germany’s last Chancellor Angela Merkel, Trump calls National Security Adviser John Bolton ‘dumb as a rock.’
Previous include a famous 2018 photo of Trump facing off with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, captioned: ‘Attempting to listen to crazy Nancy Pelosi in the Oval Office — such natural disagreement.’
Trump’s impressive book sales also came with a multimillion dollar advanced payment to line the former president’s pockets
Regular copies retail for $75 while the sold-out signed editions went for $230
The book includes pithy comments on world leaders, giving Trump’s opinion of Boris Johnson for example: ‘Boris is one of a kind and a fantastic leader of the United Kingdom.’
‘”Our Journey Together” is a collection of beautiful photos captured during our successful time in the White House,’ Trump said as he announced the launch of the book
The book includes a photograph of Trump inspecting the Honor Guard with Queen Elizabeth II during his visit to London in 2018
The lines reveal the extent to which the ex-president felt free to rip on his enemies and give his unvarnished opinion.
On another image of Pelosi, Trump scrawled: ‘She was screaming and shaking like a leaf, she’s f***ing crazy, hence the name ‘Crazy Nancy’.’
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg also made it into the book, with Trump claiming he ‘would come to the White House and kiss my a**.’
It appears no one who crossed the ex-president was off limits, including late Arizona Republican Senator John McCain.
‘Asking for a job for his wife and I am smiling but I didn’t like him even a little bit,’ Trump captioned the image.
He also hit Biden for the withdrawal from Afghanistan and inflation, which has hit an annual rate of seven percent.
‘You look at what’s happening from $1.87 a gallon to just see in California, it’s now over $7 a gallon, for gasoline for your car,’ he said. ‘It’s so sad to see what’s happened to our country.’
He also tore into political enemies like disgraced New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
‘Then-Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York who was forced out of office without, surprisingly much of a fight. I gave New York everything it wanted, including hospital ships, rooms, thousands of ventilators, and ultimately vaccines,’ reads the caption from a photo of Cuomo in the Oval Office.
It allows him to have the last word in some of his feuds, including with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with whom he clashed publicly
Trump also includes the moment when his predecessor Barack Obama left Washington in January 2017
Publishers said Trump wrote all the captions himself and the words carry the full force of his usual delivery
Former New York Governor is another one who gets rough treatment in the trademark Trumpian captions
The Trump family meet the British Royal Family. L-R: Lara Trump, Tiffany Trump, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, first lady Melania, Prince Charles, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump
‘The night we got Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. We destroyed ISIS under my watch. Now terrorists are back in the Middle East,’ runs the caption of Trump with his national security team
Trump used the book to also celebrate the high points of his presidency, such as this image of fireworks near the White House on Fourth of July
Gor founded Winning Team Publishing with the help of Donald Trump Jr., the ex-president’s oldest child.
An initial print run of 200,000 copies sold out in under six weeks.
People clamoring to buy one of Trump’s picture books may be out of luck in the short term, with new orders expected to be filled in late February or early March.
Our Journey Together is the only published work they’ve put out but Gor told DailyMail.com that his company has captured the interest of national conservative figures.
Their first author after Trump, Gor revealed, will be conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
‘We are thrilled that we have multiple authors signed with Winning Team Publishing, this week we will announce best selling author Charlie Kirk. We’ve been approached by everyone from tv anchors to sitting members of Congress with interest in publishing with us,’ Gor said.
The few copies available from third-party sellers feature a hefty asking price. A ‘collectible’ copy on Amazon is listed for nearly $1,800. Unsigned copies on Ebay are being touted for nearly double the original retail price, while sellers with signed books are asking for more than $899.
Gor confirmed last month that talks were under way for a second Trump book.
‘We are in active discussions with President Trump to publish his next book, and expect an announcement very soon,’ he said.
Gor, a Trump World insider, solved a publishing conundrum for the ex-president.
A string of industry insiders had suggested Trump would struggle to land a deal for a memoir with mainstream publishers wary of acting as a launchpad for more unfounded claims about the 2020 election.
