An out-of-print book by former President Donald Trump is selling for hundreds of dollars on Amazon, the New York Post reports.
Copies of The Art of the Comeback, published in 1997, are being sold on Amazon for a king’s ransom. As of Monday afternoon, one seller was asking $999.99 for the book, while other copies were going for anywhere from $800 to $900. The situation was similar on eBay, with copies being sold for $200 to $900.
The book was co-written with journalist Kate Bohner. It addresses Trump’s divorces from Ivana Trump and Marla Maples, and contains advice like “Be paranoid,” “Get even,” and “Always have a prenuptial agreement.”
In the book, Trump, who was notoriously skeptical about the Covid-19 pandemic, discusses his germophobia, writing, “Recent medical reports have come out saying that colds and various other ailments are spread through the act of shaking hands.…I’ve often thought of taking out a series of newspaper ads encouraging the abolishment of the handshake.”
Editor and publisher Judith Regan told the Post that interested readers could likely find the book for free at a public library.
“There’s a sucker born every minute,” she said. “What can I tell you?”
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
