DJ Trump hits the decks? Donald’s new jobs, from disc jockey at Mar-a-Lago dinners to his Twitter-style coffee-table book that’s made US$20 million – but still no presidential memoir

Feb 11, 2022

Donald Trump is getting his groove on as a DJ. Photos: Getty, AP, DPA

Trump has slammed Nancy Pelosi and others in Our Journey Together by Winning Team Publishing owned by Donald Jr.’s business associate, Sergio Gor

Major publishers feel Trump is ‘radioactive’ so he spends his days at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, where he recently appeared ‘playing the role of disc jockey’

Since losing his bid for re-election in November 2020, former US president Donald Trump has largely disappeared from view (though this week he did side with Joe Rogan on the debate over his podcast show). That’s mostly down to him being banned from Twitter and Facebook after his use of such platforms helped inflame his staunchest supporters to the point they mounted an attack on the US Capitol on January 6.

Hidden away at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, he is presumed to have been playing lots of golf while the world waits to see if he will run for president again in 2024. But that’s not to say he hasn’t been working at all.

Read on for more on what former president Trump has been up to …

Donald Trump, the US$20 million coffee table author

Trump, unlike most ex-presidents, hasn’t yet signed a multimillion-dollar deal for a post-presidential memoir. But he has signed his name on a coffee-table book documenting his presidency that’s bringing in millions, CNN reports.

The coffee table book, titled Our Journey Together, has drawn in US$20 million in gross revenue since Winning Team Publishing released it in November, CNN reported.

Winning Team Publishing was founded by Trump ally Sergio Gor, also a business associate of Donald Trump Jr., for the purposes of publishing Our Journey Together, and now has additional conservative writers’ projects in the works.

The book, CNN said, includes about 300 pages of official White House photographs and other snapshots from the Trump presidency. They all come with captions written – some with Sharpies – by Trump. His annotations are colourful commentary reminiscent of his Twitter missives, peppered with insults and slights about his political foes. Twitter permanently suspended Trump’s account in the wake of the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol.

“Attempting to listen to crazy Nancy Pelosi in the Oval Office – such natural disagreement,” Trump wrote alongside a photo from a contentious December 2018 Oval Office meeting with former vice-president Mike Pence and Democratic congressional leaders over the federal government shutdown taking place at the time.

“She was screaming and shaking like a leaf, she’s fucking crazy, hence the name ‘Crazy Nancy’,” Trump said in another handwritten caption, according to CNN.