Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber

by Andy Borowitz

For anyone interested in a book that translates The Art of the Deal into reality, in 2020 Barbara Res, a construction supervisor who rose to the rank of executive vice president of the Trump Organization, published Tower of Lies: What My Eighteen Years of Working with Donald Trump Reveals About Him. Res describes “his lack of concentration, his penchant for diverting big decisions to other people, his collecting of ass-kissers, his mood swings, his ignorance—even in areas of his ‘genius,’ like construction and finance and real estate.” She defines “the Trump way” as “a mix of the nefarious and the ignorant.” As for his skills as a self-styled master builder, Res states, “Trump didn’t know much about construction (he once said only a masochist could enjoy it) and even less about renovation.”