While I would very much like to keep politics out of this blog (and this review), that's going to be a little difficult with the reviewing of this book.

First I feel as though I need to note that I am not a fan of Donald Trump. Not his politics, not his behavior, not his tweets. In fact, I requested this book hoping to get a few laughs and to see him brought down to size a bit.

I say this because I didn't enjoy this book and I don't want it presumed that I'm simply a crazed fan of the POTUS and trying to enact some strange revenge. No ... I just didn't like the book.

This book, featuring mostly just the actual twitter exchange between the POTUS and a Hollywood writer, really doesn't have much meat to it at all.

I feel as though there isn't much of the Twitter war here at all, but rather just select bits of the longer Twitter battle. If that's not the case, then this "Twitter War" has been REALLY exaggerated.

Danny Zuker, the Tweets author, explains his intentions in the tweets and how Trump is clearly stymied by Zuker's wit. And it's a good thing he explains how he manages to 'zing' Trump because honestly, I'm not sure I'd get them all. Which suggests to me that Zuker is as enamored with himself and his own wit as Trump is with his.

Let's face it ... Trump is not a smart man. He's a bully and a liar (I base this on his public behavior) he believes the truth is whatever is said the loudest and most often.

But he 'wins' this twitter war because he managed to engage someone. And, sorry Zuker, telling someone that you are not responding to their requests <em>is</em> a response. It's a childish, school-child response, but it still is a response.

And that's really all this is - a school-yard brawl with abbreviated words. The more intelligent person thinks they win because they are smarter and quicker-witted and use better words. The bully thinks he wins because he has gotten attention and engaged someone to go toe to toe with him - and because he's less intelligent, he doesn't know when he's beaten. In the end, we all lose because the rest of us wasted our time watching it.

I like that the proceeds from this book go to funding programs that Trump has cut, but I really wish I could recommend this book so that it would raise more money. Unfortunately it's just a pissing contest that isn't very exciting to watch.

Looking for a good book? He Started It!: My Twitter War with Trump by Danny Zuker contains some of the public tweets he and Donald Trump exchanged over a few years. Once was bad enough ... we have to experience them again and again?

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

He Started It!: My Twitter War with Trump by Danny Zuker is a book I requested from NetGalley and the review is voluntary. This is a entertaining and sad book! Very entertaining because Zucker wipes the floor with tRump and tRump doesn't have a clue! The exchanges between them is childish, and it is meant to be from Zucker's view to bait tRump and it works every time!
It is sad because tRump is suppose to be our leader! Really? A childish buffoon that tweets these things? Lol!
I had some giggles, tried not to think about the leader of the USA part and just let myself enjoy!
The sales of the book goes to three agencies that tRump is trying to destroy now... So I hope tRump sees the sales and tweets! It will just increase the sales!

<i>He Started It!</i> by Danny Zuker is a short and quick read that basically amounts to a horror story and a comedy all rolled into one. The unfortunate piece Presents itself in the fact that the nightmare is real and none of us can really wake up from it while the humorous pieces sadly only serve to exacerbate the horrifying nature of it all. Zuker is a man with a hilarious, yet truly distressing account of the current trash that is warming up a seat in the Oval Office. His book, <i>He Started It!</i> depressingly reveals a number of key facets to the personality of the man currently attempting (and failing miserably) to run the country of the United States via a variety of tweets between him and the author.

Had this despicable narcissist not been elected as President, I imagine this book would have been a lot more amusing and a <i>lot</i> less terrifying. I always thought Donald Trump was a joke, continued to think it as he announced his candidacy, and was horrified by it when my idiot father suddenly told me that he supported him. There is truly no greater feeling of dejection than realizing that the racist, sexist, homophobic narcissist was actually being taken seriously.

This book is mainly just a collection of tweets between Danny Zuker and Donald Trump in which Zuker regularly calls out to Trump’s low self-esteem and incessant need for complimentary approval. It reveals truths about the President even as his every day tweets continue to reveal them now. With commentaries from Zuker throughout, you get a real sense of what was important to Donald Trump, the fact that his lying certainly didn’t start with his run for President, and a deep look into his deeply unstable mental state.

But the best part about <i>He Started It!</i> is the fact that Zuker is donating all proceeds from this book to wonderful and exceedingly important organizations such as <i>Planned Parenthood, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, </i>and <i>World Wildlife Fund</i> all that have been hurt by Trump and his administration in their goals to destroy the country (and quite possibly the world). And that alone is a reason to buy this book. We’ve got to resist Trump as much as we can and I truly could not thank Zuker more for his efforts.

<i>I was provided a free copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.</i>

This is hilarious!! A laugh out loud, actual account of Twitter exchanges......from who would eventually become President of the USA! Totally amazing.....(actually might be kind of scary, if one thinks about it....) If you're not laughing as you're reading this, you're probably shaking your head in wonder/amazement that this person actually typed those words for public viewing..... I was alternately shaking my head & laughing out loud thru out this book! Every part of this book is worth the read, from the dedication & preface to the epilogue & the acknowledgments..... & all proceeds from the sale of the book goes to great causes....... Yep......5 stars!
I received this e-book from NetGalley & Griffith Moon Publishing, in return for reading it & offering my own honest review.

*deep inhale* OK, ladies and gents. Here we go. I will admit that I LOVE seeing any example, instance, etc. of Trump getting taken down a notch and there have been so many wonderful, poignant comebacks that have been fired at the President since he's taken office. So I was thrilled to see this work on the NetGalley request list and immediately put myself down for a copy. I thought the book was going to be filled with zingers and "OH DAMN!"s but let me tell you folks, it was not to be. One of the things that really got under my skin and made me frustrated at this work is that Zuker continuously claims that his tweets are more informed, more educated, that taking down Trump is only "too easy", and that Trump defaults to petty insults when he's caught in a lie. And while Trump can be seen floundering and throwing around school-age insults, Zuker is NO better. His "zingers" are basically along the same lines as, "Yeah, but you're stupid and you have no friends." He cites his many followers compared to Trump and rarely makes a comeback that I would deem "mature and well-informed." Frequently throughout this work I felt that Zuker was at the same playing level as Trump and that it was two rather immature men trying to one-up another. For example, Zuker brings up "the deal" that Trump offers him. He states in the work that he knew the best way to piss Trump off would be to ignore "the deal" and never refer to it. Guess what he immediately does? Talks about "the deal". And brings it up just as many times as Trump does. *sigh*

Nonetheless, I appreciate Zuker challenging Trump and throwing his lies back in his face. I think it's a good work to see Trump's Twitter account in the early years and to show that he's just as immature as he's always been. I also think it's a wonderful idea that all the proceeds from this book will be going to charities that support causes that Trump has tried to undermine since he's been president. It's for that reason that I will definitely purchase a copy for our Library but the true zingers that I was hoping for were just not there.

Thank you NetGalley and Griffith Moon Publishing for this early copy.

This was equal parts funny and terrifying.
I adore the fact that he made this in order to donate all profits to charities that got screwed by Trump.
That is truly winning.

Very quick read about the tweets between the author and Donald Trump. Basically, it is what we have come to expect from Trump, insults, bullying, etc. Some of the author's tweets were funny, some from Trump were sad. Just their Twitter exchange in one place. Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the ARC of this book. Although I received the book in this manner, it did not effect my opinion of this book nor my review.

This is a fast read. It documents the Donald Trump, Danny Zuker "twitter war"
Essentially this is exactly what you can find online but bundled up nicely in an easy to read format.
Usually I would chalk this kind of book up to a cash grab, but 100% of the proceeds from this book, are going to charity.
This book is good for a few laughs.

“He started it!” is the very thing we tell children not to say when they deflect from accepting responsibility for their poor choices. People in life will always start things with you, but true character is not responding to every provocation that exists, real or imagined. I think the author dost protest too much, as he is laughing all the way to the bank while lavishing in the attention that attacking the president affords people nowadays.

Having missed Danny Zuker's Twitter war with Trump - and, apparently, being a glutton for punishment - I thought I'd give this a go. It's very short, light, and ultimately unsatisfying - mostly because Trump constantly reveals himself to be an idiot, was still somehow elected, and continues to remain in office despite having the temperament of a petulant child.

It's a quick, fun little read - but also depressing.

3.5 rounded up to 4 stars (mostly because I admire that all profits will go to charity) for He Started It!: My Twitter War with Trump. This is a quick read that is part funny and part very sad. In 2013, Danny Zuker found himself caught up in a twitter war with the then reality tv star, Mr. Trump.

The book opens with a brief introduction about how the twitter war came to be, and then moves along to display the actual tweets that made up the twitter war along with brief bits of amusing commentary -- I definitely laughed out loud a few times. On the other hand, I was left feeling terribly sad that this is what our public discourse has become.

Overall, this is a VERY short book but will appeal to those who find such things amusing. The price tag would normally seem very high to me, but since all profits are going to charities that need assistance, I might just end up scooping up a couple of these as Christmas gifts.

PROFITS GO TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD, RAICES (the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services) and the WORLD WILDLIFE FUND.

Thank you to NetGalley and Griffith Moon Publishing for providing me with a DRC of this book.

This book is based on the tweets between Danny Zuker and Donald Trump years 2013-2014. Funny I didn’t realize he had a Twitter page back then, but he was just a television personality. Did not like him or his show so these tweets would have meant nothing to me at that time. But reading them now you can see that trump has learnt nothing. His tweets today as the US President are still the name calling, bragging about how “bigly” his brain is...( his word, not my mistake) and mean spirited. This book is funny as Zuker just eggs him on. Even after he was blocked by trump, the donald still managed to read his tweets and responded. Sad, sad, but funny! 3⭐️