From Diana to Kim Jong Un
Trump wants to cash in on letters to him
03/09/2023, 8:18 p.m
You have to give the entrepreneur Trump one thing: he has no lack of creativity to make money. After his release of trading cards, the next sales coup is now pending: a book with 150 letters. He didn’t write it himself, but celebrities wrote it to him.
Former US President Donald Trump is releasing a book containing more than 150 letters written to him by politicians and other celebrities. As announced by Winning Team Publishing, co-founded by Trump’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr., these include letters from former US Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, British Princess Diana and pop star Michael Jackson .
Other letters in the book “Letters to Trump” (Letters to Trump) come from former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who lost Trump in the 2016 presidential election, from talk show queen Oprah Winfred, Hollywood actor Clint Eastwood and basketball star Shaquille O’Neal.
The letters cover a period of more than 40 years – and thus also the time when Trump as a real estate entrepreneur and television star was much less controversial than at the beginning of his political career. The book is scheduled to hit stores on April 25 – and will cost a whopping $99. A signed version costs $399.
Trump, who was elected from the White House in 2020, had already published the photo book “Our Journey Together” last year. The book is said to have grossed $20 million in the first two months of its publication.
“He wrote me beautiful letters”
Kim Jong Un’s letters from Trump’s new book could be of particular interest. During his tenure, Trump had an unusually close relationship with the internationally outlawed ruler of North Korea. “He wrote me beautiful letters, they’re great letters,” Trump told supporters in 2018. “We fell in love.”
The correspondence with Kim is among the documents confiscated from the ex-president’s home in Florida after Trump’s term in office. Trump took numerous documents – including many classified documents – from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, although the documents should have been handed over to the National Archives.