I read about half of this book back when I first received the ARC in 2017, but only recently was able to finish it cover to cover. It feels a bit strange looking back at all the times Trump tweeted or did something insane, now that he's been voted out of office and has been banned on most social media, he's been silent for a while. I have always said that this is the most bizarre "real" thing to have happened, it feels like something straight out of a scene of Idiocracy or an Onion article and just kept getting worse until by the end of the four years, I didn't know from first glance whether something was satire or reality (I still knew how to research it, unlike most Trump supporters, but I digress). Trump is gone, but his legacy will remain - in the form of his face printed on toilet paper as a decoration in my bathroom and the little tin of Impeachmints a customer once berated me over while she was checking out at my job.

MAD About Trump collects 128 previously printed comics from various issues about Trump. I did chuckle at a few of them but unfortunately, after four years of reading actual things Trump has said, the satire once again failed to be "outrageous." Trump might be the only person it can be difficult to properly mock because he is always outdoing himself. Some of the bits were repetitive as they had been previously printed in other issues.

Note: I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley. I was not compensated in any other fashion for the review and the opinions reflected below are entirely my own. Special thanks to the publisher and author for providing the copy.

Absolutely hilarious! I loved the humour. I've always enjoyed MAD.

Enjoyable, quick and funny read that brings the humour of MAD to the madness of Trump, making it all a little easier to swallow while he goes a lot crazy.

This book is hilarious and heartbreaking at the same time. It'd be much funnier if we weren't staring a nuclear war straight in the face...

Not my type of book. Although it is supposed to be a humorous look at our current President, some things should be off limits.

'MAD About Trump: A Brilliant Look at Our Brainless President' by MAD Magazine falls pretty short of brilliant, but it has some laughs liberally sprinkled throughout (pun intended).

The gags stretch back quite a few years to Trump's Apprentice show, but for the most part are from the last couple years. There are fake movie ads and comparisons between Trump and the preceding 43 U.S. Presidents. There are famous hilarious things Trump has misspoken about other American heroes.

I read MAD years ago, and it was funny at the time. This doesn't feel that funny. Maybe because the subject already has the feeling of a parody. Some of the humor feels like it just lays there. There are gags that feel like they are from a late night tv show. This isn't the MAD that I remember, but it is mildly funny.

I received a review copy of this ebook from DC Entertainment and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.

Mad about MAD - and they do do satire and humor better than the late night shows - even though Trump-bashing stopped being funny a long time ago.

In MAD about Trump, there is enough to offend just about everyone.

Naturally, the key target is our beleagured president, but many others get the same treatment. I must say, however that Putin looks a little more "buff" than I remember from those bare-chested horseback photos.

I think it's arguable whether this book is a "Brilliant Look," but it's still fun.

My favorite is the Trump "Mount Rushmore," which of course features Donald Trump, on every sculpture!
I suspected that Donald and KellyAnne were good dancers, but now I know for sure!

MAD About Trump is a cute book. Just look at the pictures and don't take it too seriously.

An audaciously atrocious piece. A lot of mockery visuals and charts. Comic strips galore. Bright colors, celebrities, caricatures - all can be found here. Another detail I noticed is that it is not one sided, everybody who even contests to be against Trump, is also mocked against him in the book. I think I would definitely come back to it again later on.

A decent collection of graphics, comics and commentary about the freaky bastard, but it doesn't raise many laughs, partly because over here in the UK most of the other people mentioned just haven't been heard of (Kellyanne Conway?? Chris Christie???), but mostly because it's such a facile, easy target. You wait the likes of Private Eye completely tearing him a new one instead.

Very funny satire on the Trump presidency and Trump himself. You will not like this if you like Trump. Too bad.

I was given the opportunity to read an electronic copy of MAD about Trump: a Brilliant Look at Our Brainless President. This is my honest opinion of the book.

MAD About Trump is the perfect blend of snarky and rude, with just enough humor to keep readers guessing as to the validity of the dialogue and depictions. That is, after all, the point to MAD - the unvarnished truth mixed in with twisted facts. Jake Tapper's forward sets the stage perfectly, transporting me back to my own enthusiasm over new MAD magazine's arriving on store shelves.

My favorite parts of MAD About Trump were the mocking movie posters, as well as the real quotes that came back to bite the creator of them. Poking fun is what MAD does best, but I actually thought that the writers were a bit restrained. They got their zingers in, yes, but they were not as harsh or brutal as they could have been. This book may be more well received by those who align themselves with one particular political party over another, but all readers should take MAD About Trump for what it is: a chance to laugh a little and to joke instead of the negative alternative.

I did not get a chance to read this book cover to cover but what I did read was very funny. Any book that will make fun of Donald Trump will get 5 stars from me. I will probably purchase this book and look at it often as Donald makes one stupid move after another.

The following joke is recounted by Peter Barnes in his book about Ernst Lubitsch’s classic 1942 film ‘To Be or Not To Be’:

After World War II, the aged, fugitive Hitler and Goebbels have survived and are discovered in a New York restaurant when another diner recognises them and goes over. ‘Hitler? Goebbels? What’re you two doing here?’ ‘We’re only creating the Fourth Reich,’ says Goebbels. ‘It’s true, says Hitler, ‘only this time we’re going to kill ten million Jews and six postmen.’ ‘Why’re you going to kill six postmen?’ asks the diner. Hitler turns to Goebbels in triumph. ‘You see, nobody cares about the Jews!'

Some people will find that joke eye-wateringly funny, whilst others will greet it with mirthless discomfort. Thus this joke, like the film ‘To Be or Not To Be’, which is set in Nazi-occupied Poland and features characters such as Colonel “Concentration Camp” Erhardt, raises the question whether some subjects should simply be off limits from humourous treatment – a question that is particularly apposite when considering ‘MAD About Trump’.

Should a narcissistic egomaniac who has offended, amongst others, the disabled, war veterans, Muslims, Mexicans and women be received with anything other than cold contempt or is mocking and satirising such an individual not only a valid response but a healthy one, given the therapeutic nature of laughter?

Even leaving aside the First Amendment I side with the latter view, although it obviously helps if the jokes are funny. Humour is horribly subjective so all I can say is that ‘MAD about Trump’ worked pretty well for me, although some of the references are likely to be lost on even the most avid Americanophile.

With so many writers the quality of the material is also bound to be a little hit-or-miss. Simply reimagining a Pirates of the Caribbean-style poster with Trump as Jack Sparrow strikes me as lazy but suggesting that under Trumpcare it will become mandatory for doctors to refer to terminally ill patients as ‘losers’ is spot on, as is the Trump Thanksgiving tweet: “A great day to remember how the Indians welcomed the Pilgrims to America, but NOT Muslims or Syrian refugees. Smart!”

In addition to questions of ‘taste’, the book faces two other significant problems. The first is the danger that certain references will quickly become dated.

The second problem is that sometimes the bare facts about Trump simply cannot be capped comedically. Thus a two-page spread providing reasons why Trump should be fired can never hope to be more humorously inventive than the relatively unvarnished introduction to the piece which points out the paradox of ‘The Apprentice’ being hosted by a person who “consistently shows bad business judgement, makes embarrassing corporate decisions and, frankly, has one of the worst résumés in corporate history!”

To sum up, this lavishly illustrated volume mostly hits the mark and is occasionally laugh out loud. Not least amongst the pleasures of reading it are imagining how the Donald himself would receive it.

Apparently I am not the only one who thinks our current president is an idiot. Mad Magazine has deemed to him so much of a idiot, that they immortalize him in his own book. Everything from alternative christmas carols, an Apprentice like “You’re Fired” marathon, the so called movie posters, and my favorite the Banana Republican add.. Which part will be your Trump hating favorite, you have to get the book to decide for yourself.

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MAD about Trump is a rock and rolling, hits it in the ballpark, no holds barred satire about Trump and the other ninnies who ran for office in the 2016 term. MAD, as usual, found that sweet spot of targeting and mocking Trump and showing him in all his glory, I mean stupidity. There are so many favorites. Seeing Trump and his conquests, I mean other presidential candidates, modeling clothes, my favorite being Ben Carson in his purple pj's ready for a good sleep (daytime) and us wide awake. For those of us who are parents, a take-off on the book No, David showing Trump (No, Doanld!!) as being the acting-out infant-child that he is and a movie poster replica of Blah Blah Land with Kellyanne Conway (in the beautiful yellow dress) and Donald Trump dancing and prancing the night away. The drawings, photos, type face are the usual MAD style, bold in your face and easy to read. Buy this book to have a good laugh and keep your sanity. I can't wait for the next MAD satire about his glory days in office and impeachment.

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This is a collection of satirical cartoons about the election of 2016 and the president himself. In true MAD Magazine style, some are one page and some are several page long comics. Some jokes land, some jokes miss, and some are kinda gross – also MAD Magazine’s style – but humor can be very subjective. I personally wasn’t too keen on some of the art styles but that’s cause I didn’t find them pleasant to look at; not because they were poorly done.

If you’re an overly sensitive person and will trash this just because it’s making fun of Trump, feel free to skip this. MAD Magazine is not a publication for people who can’t take a joke and they to NOT hold back. I found that absolutely refreshing but others may not.

All the parodies are here; Beauty and the Beast, La La Land, Suicide Squad, Civil War, and while I may not have laughed out loud, I did chuckle at the cleverness of a lot of them and the publication as a whole is a welcome bit of levity among the absolute mess American politics has become. I’ll have to give it 2 or 3 more reads to catch all the little jokes (seriously, some of them are like those Highlights Magazine hidden picture pages but for adults) but I had fun reading this. 4 out of 5 for it’s unabashed and scathing honesty.

Low-hanging fruit, but very timely and funny. MAD never disappoints