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Speaker 1: we try to not get political, but I do have
Speaker 1: a guest today that is definitely known for politics, and
Speaker 1: he's got a new book out that has definitely something
Speaker 1: to do with politics. But we're not talking to him
Speaker 1: about politics. We're talking to him about a new book,
Speaker 1: and we're excited to bring him back to the program.
Speaker 1: I had a chance to meet this gentleman many years
Speaker 1: ago when he was in Sioux Falls, and I'm excited
Speaker 1: to talk to him. I don't know, third, fourth, fifth,
Speaker 1: sixth times, something like that. On the radio, mister Newt
Speaker 1: Gingrich number one New York Times bestselling author. He's got
Speaker 1: a brand new book out. It's called Trump's Triumph, America's
Speaker 1: Greatest Comeback. What number is this? Do you even know
Speaker 1: which number? You've got a bunch of books out.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Somebody told me it's like number forty four.
Speaker 1: That is amazing, something like that, and best seller you've got.
Speaker 1: You know, when you put out a book, people just
Speaker 1: love them and they go out and buy them right up.
Speaker 1: And let's talk about this newest book, Trump's Triumph, America's
Speaker 1: Greatest Comeback? And when did you start working on this
Speaker 1: and what does it take to put a book like
Speaker 1: this together.
Speaker 2: Well, we actually started writing it and thinking it through
Speaker 2: in October because we were pretty sure Trump was going
Speaker 2: to win and we wanted to figure out how to
Speaker 2: make sense of it, and not just for Trump, but
Speaker 2: for America. That's why, Well, the title is Trump's Triumph.
Speaker 2: The subtitle is America's Greatest Comeback, not Trump's Greatest comeback.
Speaker 2: And we thought it was very important to recognize that
Speaker 2: it's the country that really came back. And you know,
Speaker 2: I think it's a very exciting story. Trump Triumph is
Speaker 2: actually partially about the past how do we get to
Speaker 2: hear and partially about the future. Where are we going
Speaker 2: to go now that Trump has won and the Mega
Speaker 2: movement has won? And I think that's an important part
Speaker 2: of the story. Is it's a dynamic It's not a
Speaker 2: polaroid shot that's a still life. It's a dynamic motion picture.
Speaker 2: And the things are going to continue evolving intotinue unfolding,
Speaker 2: and I think it's very exciting.
Speaker 1: And I love that you are a student of history,
Speaker 1: and there's so many wonderful insights that you have on things.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that's fascinating. Trump is not
Speaker 1: the first president to serve a split presidency twenty second
Speaker 1: and twenty fourth president Grover Cleveland. Also there are some
Speaker 1: similarities there, aren't there.
Speaker 2: Well that it's true Cleveland won and then it was
Speaker 2: the first Democrat elected the Civil War and then lost
Speaker 2: in a very narrow election, and then came back and
Speaker 2: won again in eighteen ninety two. So when Trump ended
Speaker 2: up out of office, I told him, you know, you
Speaker 2: ought to hang a picture of Grover Cleveland up because
Speaker 2: you're coming back. And so he is the second American
Speaker 2: to be elected, lose the office, and then be re elected.
Speaker 2: And I think actually historians will look back and say
Speaker 2: that the four years in the wilderness profoundly changed Trump.
Speaker 2: He came back as a more energized, more focused, and
Speaker 2: bolder person, more deeply committed to changing the system, and
Speaker 2: with the enormous knowledge of how to do it.
Speaker 1: And when you talk about the system, think about you know,
Speaker 1: how things have always been done. And Trump has very
Speaker 1: much been kind of a non traditional candidate from the
Speaker 1: very beginning, hasn't he.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think he started that way. I mean,
Speaker 2: Kliston and I first had breakfast with him to talk
Speaker 2: about running in February of twenty fifteen, and when he
Speaker 2: came down the long escalator on June fifteenth of twenty fifteen.
Speaker 2: You know, he was a business guy. He never run
Speaker 2: for office, and so he took everything he'd learned in business,
Speaker 2: which was very customer oriented. He had had a TV
Speaker 2: show for thirteen years, and he understood a great deal
Speaker 2: about public opinion and about how to appeal to people,
Speaker 2: and people tend to forget. You know, he beat sixteen Republicans.
Speaker 2: When the race began, Jeb Bush was the front runner,
Speaker 2: and in a few months Trump had knocked him out.
Speaker 2: He was gone. And so from day one Trump kept
Speaker 2: applying an intuitive feel for everyday Americans that turned out
Speaker 2: to be enormously powerful.
Speaker 1: The new book, Trump's Triumph America's Greatest Comeback, is out
Speaker 1: right now from number one New York Times bestseller Newt
Speaker 1: Gingrich and again, we think somewhere around forty fourth book,
Speaker 1: I know it's a bunch. When you put a book
Speaker 1: together like this, do you when what is that process like,
Speaker 1: do you envision you know exactly how it's going to
Speaker 1: be laid out? Or does the book kind of build
Speaker 1: itself while you're working on it.
Speaker 2: I think, well, before you start writing, you've had laid
Speaker 2: it out, but the book grows kind of organically. You
Speaker 2: start with a big idea. We wanted to try to
Speaker 2: explain to the country what the meaning was of the election,
Speaker 2: and that was why it's both backward looking and forward looking,
Speaker 2: because the backward looking part helps tell you how we
Speaker 2: got here, but the forward looking part helped give you
Speaker 2: a flavor of you know, what would for more years
Speaker 2: of Trump be like and what would it affect in
Speaker 2: the country. And then you sort of in my mind,
Speaker 2: both in my speeches or my interviews or in writing
Speaker 2: a book, I try to work from the audience back.
Speaker 2: That is, you have to think about, you know, what
Speaker 2: are people in stare, what do people care about? What
Speaker 2: do people want to know about? And I felt that
Speaker 2: with Trump's triumph that there would be a real hunger
Speaker 2: both to understand how we got here because this is
Speaker 2: so historically unique, and to understand well, what does it
Speaker 2: mean for the future for my children, for my grandchildren,
Speaker 2: for my country. And that's why the book has a
Speaker 2: both backward and forward frame to it, So we're both
Speaker 2: telling you how we got to this second term, but
Speaker 2: then we're telling you where we think the second term
Speaker 2: is going to take you.
Speaker 1: Very nice new Thank you so much for taking the
Speaker 1: time to visit with We always appreciate your time. Well
Speaker 1: glad to be with you, and the book is available
Speaker 1: right now. I do have a link to the book
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