MAD lampoons the most easily lampooned president since Dubya: Trump. And easy is the watchword. The “jokes” are all unfunny largely because they’re the lowest of low hanging fruit. Trump’s complexion, hair, speaking style, general mannerisms and proclamations make him an already real life caricature – MAD do little to improve upon it. Obvious “comedy” that’s been done to death in media generally, MAD About Trump is an uninteresting, mostly humourless read.

As would be expected from MAD, this book has lots of laughs.

President Trump and his courtiers and family are given a good going over. But given the absurdity of so much coming out of Trump, there is not enough "space" to land killer blows.

Terrific! This MAD book is destined to become a classic. Hilarious! Every page is full of clever and witty parodies. I loved it and highly recommend it.

A Treat From the Usual Gang of Idiots

I guess one of the perks of winning a presidential election is that you get to be skewered by humor magazines like MAD. In this volume they give Trump the expected going over. There are enough Clinton shots that it's quite clear they could have turned their guns on Hillary had the election turned out differently.

This book follows the tried and true MAD method. A lot of one page poster bits, (repositioning popular movies and such as Trump features). Lots of one page joke ideas, (for example, Trump quotes opposite quotes from the Bible). There aren't too many long form cartoons or parodies, which was fine by me because sometimes they can be pretty labored, (for example, a Zombie Apprentice line up featuring dead celebrities). Peppered throughout are one page checklists of Trump v. Clinton, or Trump v. The Pope, and so on, comparing their stats like two opposing fighters. They were especially clever. Lots of rewritten songs, (Christmas carols and the like), that had some witty rhymes and jokes. There's a great deal of photoshopping, which of course is new to people who grew up on 60's and 70's MAD. For example, I got a kick out of how all of the Republican contenders were dressed and posed for a fake J. Crew catalogue.

It's hard to keep this sort of thing up for an entire book, (hair jokes, Trump University jokes, and so on), but they do their best with the material at hand. There aren't any deep cuts or penetrating takedowns. This is Jay Leno/Jimmy Fallon territory and the humor is PG-13. But that said, there were a few chuckles and grins, and some of the individual bits were very clever.

All in all this was exactly what I would expect from a MAD style book, and I'd suggest that how you feel about MAD and its approach to topical humor will probably dictate, (along with your degree of loyalty or opposition to Trump), how much you enjoy this book.

(Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-x-days Adobe Digital copy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)

Not worth the paper (or electrons, in this case) it's printed on.

Very MAD and very funny! Artist's drawings capture that atypical Trump weirdness. Thanks MAD for bringing humor to these dark times.

This is not the most biting satire, but I laughed throughout all the same.