Donald Trump finally guests on Jimmy Kimmel Live after canceling a previously scheduled engagement back in October. During the interview, Trump and Kimmel discuss many topics, but what really steals the show is the Dr. Seuss style book, Winners Aren't Losers, ghostwritten by Kimmel on behalf of The Trump. Of course, the late night show host just had to read his creation to the republican presidential candidate while he was at it. .
Kimmel went through the trouble of not only writing and illustrating the book, but publishing an actual hardback copy of it. As he reads, the pages appear on a screen behind the comedian ghostwriter and the presidential candidate.
Each page of the ghostwritten book is a mockery of either one of many Trumpisms or an event from the real estate mogul's presidential campaign. Despite being made fun of, Trump seemed to relish the attention and the book. In a fun-spirited manner, Kimmel read the first part of the last verse, "There are two kinds of people. Which one will you be? A loser like them? Or a winner..." While Trump closed with, "Like me."
Winners --Like Trump-- versus losers like pretty much everyone else, if Trump is to be believed anyway, is a running theme throughout the entire book. It is also used in the the opening line of the colorful page-turner. The rhyming scheme was based on that of the most well known Dr. Seuss titles like Cat in the Hat and Hop on Pop.
The most obvious political reference from the book comes from the lines, "Now here are some frogs I do not like at all. We must kick these frogs out and then build a wall!" It was an overt poke at Trump's policy to ban Muslims from the country.
There is also an allusion to the negative comments Trump made about Senator John McCain was a prisoner of war: "This lobster's a loser, throw him in the pot! I like a lobster who doesn't get caught"
Today points out that, "While it may seem out of the blue, the politically-themed children's book isn't that strange. Dr. Seuss said that his titular character in the classic Yertle the Turtle represented Adolf Hitler. A lesser-known book, Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now? was aimed at President Richard Nixon." Other political books in disguise by Dr. Seuss include, The Butter Battle Book which illustrates the problems of the Cold War and the beloved childhood favorite, Horton Hears a Who which is symbolic of the U.S. --Horton-- protecting the smaller country of Japan --The Who's-- after having destroyed their home.
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