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.

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.

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

This is a laugh out loud book!! I could not wait to read it. I am sure some will find it offensive but it is light hearted fun!! Including some of his actual tweets was a nice touch and "The Tale of The Tape"' priceless. Lol. But my favorite was "No, Donald, No". The illustrations!!! Get this book. You will not regret it. Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the advanced copy of this book in return for my honest review.

One of the things that makes satirizing Donald Trump so difficult is that no matter how low the bar for expectations are set, Trump always manages to fall short, repeatedly surprising us with how shallow, crude, and idiotic he actually is. Even when we think he cannot possibly manage to be any stupider, he proves us wrong, over and over and over.

Trump is horribly flawed, to put it lightly, but usually in a predictable way. We know that if you stroke his ego, he'll promise you the greatest things, the best things, things you can only ever imagine, but the best things nonetheless. Call him a small-handed pussy-grabber whose breath reeks of rot and decay, and he'll still be sending you press clippings decades later arguing that his hands are not that small. And you know he'll be dedicating many a lonely hours tweeting ALL of it from his golden toilet. Even when we think he cannot possibly be stupid enough to undermine his own staff who are attempting to cover up whatever latest treasonous BS he's committed through his own ineptitude, he still manages to surprise us by being even dumber than we gave him credit for, but we kind of know it's coming anyway. In these ways, he's completely, utterly predictable. Unfortunately, MAD Magazine's effort at making light of and mocking such shortcomings are equally predictable.

Frankly, MAD About Trump: A Brilliant Look at Our Brainless President is not nearly as mean, cruel, derisive, or scathing as Trump deserves. It also doesn't feel particularly fresh, releasing in late June, our 8,976,349th year of Trump's reign. Too much of the magazine's attempts at humor are trite acknowledgments of how Trump actually behaves, and its attempts at caricature are nowhere near as outlandish a Trump himself. When one artist draws the orange buffoon trying to sneak into a pageant contestant's dressing room, we can only sigh with the sad realization that not only is it true, but that Trump-proper was also known for ducking into an underage girl's dressing rooms, as well. It's difficult to make light of his history as a sexual assailant and voyeurism of naked or scantily-clad children.

The biggest problem with this issue of MAD Magazine is that it is utterly soft serve, a little league softball attempt at mockery, but one that is too often completely on the nose. Take for instance the poster about Besty DeVos's purchased cabinet post, or selections of Trump tweets, one of which includes his thoughts on Thanksgiving: "A great day to remember how the Indians welcomed the Pilgrims to America, but NOT Muslims or Syrian refugees. Smart!" Seriously - are we sure he hasn't actually tweeted that (and if he hasn't, can you honestly promise he won't?!). Or, "If you're committing hate crimes in my name, please stop. It's Thanksgiving, for God's sake! You can always pick it back up tomorrow!" Of course, the biggest inaccuracy in any of MAD's tweets from Trump are the lack of misspellings and shoddy grammar.

There are a few bright spots, though, even if they are really few and far between. The comparisons between a Trump press conference and a bus station bathroom are on point, and I got a few chuckles out of a one-page segment on the similarities and differences between him and Pope Francis. Trump's new presidential seal, which sees the eagle replaced with the Twitter logo, is pretty clever, as is a quick visual gag of Trump's hair mussed by his KKK hood, and a one-liner about our national anthem being replaced with its Russian counterpart. In fact, the half-page bullet points devoted to the silver linings of Trump's presidency are all pretty funny, and perhaps uncomfortably close to the truth... Another segment worth exploring, particularly in light of Evangelical support for Cheeto Hitler, is Trump vs. The Bible, which pairs Bible quotes against Trumpism, such as Leviticus outlawing incest against Trump talking about banging his daughter, or Proverbs 18:15: "An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge," against Trump's "We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated." Trump's rewritten version of John Lennon's "Imagine" is also pretty remarkable, and maybe even the stand-out segment of the whole issue. I also have to give props to MAD for including a fake diploma from Trump's fake university that allows you fill in your name and frame for hanging. Friends and neighbors wouldn't even be able to tell the difference between this and the phony one! I also got a big laugh out of the similarities between Trump and Burger King's new Mac 'N Cheetos for noting that both look like an Oompa Loompa boner. That's a top-fucking-notch, spot-on observation. Scattered between all this are some movie poster spoofs that are Photoshopped pretty nicely, providing send-ups of Taxi Driver, Captain America: Civil War, and Die Hard.

While there are a few clever gags and funny punchlines, I found most of the issue pretty humdrum, if not outright basic. I haven't read MAD Magazine in probably a good twenty-five years, but recalling my fondness for it in my youth, I figured if anybody deserved my attention for a Trump takedown, it was this particular title. Maybe I've simply outgrown MAD and its comedic stylings, or maybe Trump is too much of a real-life moronic cartoon villain to properly satirize. Just when you think you can take a comedic razor's edge to the man, he stoops ever lower still, proving that you have, once again, given him far too much credit. And that's the fundamental flaw in this magazine's Trump issue - he is given far too much credit. Even when he's getting torn a new one, you know it's only a matter time before MAD's writers look like Nostradamus predicting Trump's next nation-ruining moment. There's a few biting segments worth a look, but the magazine overall is an unremarkable dud, particularly in light of far more scathing late night TV monologues from Stephen Colbert and Bill Maher, or even the occasional Twitter account for that matter. Perhaps that's as it should be though. Trump is best known for his late-night twitter rants and celebrity TV shows. If he's to be taken down on any battlefield, it'll be online or on television, not in books he'll have never heard of and won't be bothered to read regardless of how many pretty pictures and illustrations may be inside.

[Note: I received an advanced copy of this title from the publisher via NetGalley.]

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.