--- title: Donald Trump Twitter: President Endorses Blank Gag Book description: President Donald Trump kicked off the Monday after Easter with another round of morning tweets canonical: https://time.com/4742212/donald-trump-twitter-democrats-book/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-17T13:20:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T08:46:07.384Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump Just Endorsed a Book Full of Empty Pages og:description: "Reasons to Vote for Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide" og:url: https://time.com/4742212/donald-trump-twitter-democrats-book/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c952bbc361b3240/6988c3118fd2ee11223569bf/gettyimages-668255216.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Arrives In West Palm Beach For Weekend At Mar-A-Lago Estate og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump Just Endorsed a Book Full of Empty Pages twitter:description: "Reasons to Vote for Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c952bbc361b3240/6988c3118fd2ee11223569bf/gettyimages-668255216.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump Just Endorsed a Book Full of Empty Pages > Sponsored content. 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You shouldn't be making financial decisions based on tweets._ by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Apr 17, 2017 1:20 PM UTC You shouldn't be making financial decisions based on tweets. by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Apr 17, 2017 1:20 PM UTC President [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4710614/donald-trump-fbi-surveillance-house-intelligence-committee/) kicked off the Monday after [Easter](http://time.com/4738876/easter-word-origin-history/) with another round of morning [tweets](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump). On the President’s mind: the “fake news” media, the first 90 days of his presidency, and a book with blank pages. “A great book for your reading enjoyment: ‘REASONS TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS’ by Michael J. Knowles,” Trump said in one Twitter posting. The book could easily pass for a typical political tome, but the Amazon bestseller is [a gag cooked up by conservative editor Michael J. Knowles.](http://fortune.com/2017/03/10/amazon-bestseller-reasons-to-vote-for-democrats/) “I’ve been observing the Democratic Party for at least 10 years now and when I observed their record and reasons to vote for them, on reasons of economics or foreign policy or homeland security or civil rights and so on, I realized it was probably best to just leave all the pages blank,” Knowles told Fox News. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/853944453538750464) Paperback copies of the book retail for $9.99 on [Amazon ](https://www.amazon.com/Reasons-Vote-Democrats-Comprehensive-Guide/dp/1501180126/ref=sr%5F1%5F1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1492434411&sr=1-1&keywords=reasons+to+vote+for+democrats+a+comprehensive+guide)and $8.99 at [Barnes and Noble](https://www.amazon.com/Reasons-Vote-Democrats-Comprehensive-Guide/dp/1501180126/ref=sr%5F1%5F1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1492434411&sr=1-1&keywords=reasons+to+vote+for+democrats+a+comprehensive+guide). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4742212/donald-trump-twitter-democrats-book/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4742212/donald-trump-twitter-democrats-book/"},"headline":"President Trump Just Endorsed a Book Full of Empty Pages","datePublished":"2017-04-17T13:20:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-08T08:46:07.384Z","description":"\"Reasons to Vote for Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide\"","url":"https://time.com/4742212/donald-trump-twitter-democrats-book/","keywords":["Donald Trump","White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c952bbc361b3240/6988c3118fd2ee11223569bf/gettyimages-668255216.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c952bbc361b3240/6988c3118fd2ee11223569bf/gettyimages-668255216.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Arrives In West Palm Beach For Weekend At Mar-A-Lago Estate","caption":"Donald Trump Arrives In West Palm Beach For Weekend At Mar-A-Lago Estate","creditText":"Joe Raedle—Getty Images","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/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4742212/donald-trump-twitter-democrats-book/","name":"President Trump Just Endorsed a Book Full of Empty Pages"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Twitter Shouldn't Pick Your Stocks: Here's Why Money","description":"You shouldn't be making financial decisions based on tweets.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/GEJQ9J4p/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-03-21T14:50:46.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/GEJQ9J4p.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4742212/donald-trump-twitter-democrats-book/","duration":"PT1M15S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4742212/donald-trump-twitter-democrats-book/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```