--- title: Donald Trump: Alec Baldwin, Kurt Andersen Writing A Satire Book On President description: The book is called 'You Can’t Spell America Without Me' canonical: https://time.com/4686940/alec-baldwin-and-kurt-andersen-are-writing-a-book-satirizing-trump/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-01T15:21:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:35:50.580Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen Are Writing a Book Satirizing Trump og:description: The book is called 'You Can’t Spell America Without Me" and will be published in the fall og:url: https://time.com/4686940/alec-baldwin-and-kurt-andersen-are-writing-a-book-satirizing-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cfde393b3f0dc46/6988bc838e06018bd646964d/trump-baldwin-book.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: trump-baldwin-book og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen Are Writing a Book Satirizing Trump twitter:description: The book is called 'You Can’t Spell America Without Me" and will be published in the fall twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cfde393b3f0dc46/6988bc838e06018bd646964d/trump-baldwin-book.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen Are Writing a Book Satirizing Trump by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 1, 2017 3:21 PM UTC  Penguin Press by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 1, 2017 3:21 PM UTC Donald Trump’s presidency has already provided rich fodder for comedians like [Alec Baldwin](http://time.com/4669465/newspaper-mistakes-alec-baldwin-for-trump/), who regularly portrays the president on [_Saturday Night Live_](http://time.com/4673000/the-uncanny-catharsis-of-saturday-night-live/). Now, Baldwin is teaming up with novelist Kurt Andersen to write [a book satirizing the president](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/arts/kurt-andersen-alec-baldwin-to-write-satirical-book-about-president-trump.html?%5Fr=0) called _You Can’t Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year as President Donald J. Trump_. Andersen, a founding editor of _Spy,_ the magazine that famously called Trump a “short-fingered vulgarian,” said there will be more to it than just Baldwin’s impression. “I think we’ll be channeling and amplifying the real Trump,” he told the New York _Times_. “Writing for a five- or 10-minute sketch is different than writing a book, which has to be a narrative.” Baldwin noted that Andersen would be doing most of the writing. “We have that arrangement whereby he doesn’t put on the wig, I don’t open up a Word document.” Penguin Press will publish the book in November. \[[_NYT_](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/arts/kurt-andersen-alec-baldwin-to-write-satirical-book-about-president-trump.html?%5Fr=0)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4686940/alec-baldwin-and-kurt-andersen-are-writing-a-book-satirizing-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4686940/alec-baldwin-and-kurt-andersen-are-writing-a-book-satirizing-trump/"},"headline":"Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen Are Writing a Book Satirizing Trump","datePublished":"2017-03-01T15:21:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:35:50.580Z","description":"The book is called 'You Can’t Spell America Without Me'","url":"https://time.com/4686940/alec-baldwin-and-kurt-andersen-are-writing-a-book-satirizing-trump/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cfde393b3f0dc46/6988bc838e06018bd646964d/trump-baldwin-book.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cfde393b3f0dc46/6988bc838e06018bd646964d/trump-baldwin-book.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"trump-baldwin-book","caption":"","creditText":"Penguin Press","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4686940/alec-baldwin-and-kurt-andersen-are-writing-a-book-satirizing-trump/","name":"Alec Baldwin and Kurt Andersen Are Writing a Book Satirizing Trump"}}]}] ```