How Trump Thinks: His Tweets and the Birth of a New Political Language

This book analyzes Trump's incendiary mendacity in all its bewildering guises, and shows how this fusion of entertainment and cunningly-crafted propaganda has destabilized the world's most powerful democracy.. The most significant, demented, politically effective tweets from the world's most important Twitter feed, analyzed and explained by the UK's leading expert on political lying. The most unusual feature of Donald Trump's nationalist and populist campaign for the presidency was his obsessive use of Twitter. Trump's tweets, by contrast, formed a constant stream of provocations, insults, conspiracy theories, 'alternative facts' and outright lies. And they helped him win power. Like other social media, this form of communication has often been assumed to encourage the dissemination of liberal values and the circulation of facts

Tom Roberts is a media historian and the author of Before Rupert: Keith Murdoch and the Birth of a Dynasty.. Peter Oborne is a columnist for the Daily Mail and former chief political commentator of the Daily Telegraph. One of Britain's most distinguished and independent political writers, his books include The Triumph of the Political Class and Wounded Tiger

. 'This is the best thing I have read about Donald Trump' ConservativeHome. They don't seem merely preposterous any more' Evening Standard. 'Watching Trump recover from successive disgraces and fiascos, Oborne and Roberts marvel at his capacity to deflect blame The man who currently rails against "fake news" and its lack of accredited sources long ago mastered the same sleight of hand' Peter Conrad, Guardian. 'There have been derisive collections of Trump's blurts before but reading through this para-scholarly presentation of his texts changes your perception of them. 'A hilarious yet frightening book' The West Australian. 'Oborne and Roberts's book is a service to scholars' Meghan O'Rourke, Guardian