--- ---  # President Trump Just Endorsed a Book Full of Empty Pages by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Apr 17, 2017 1:20 PM UTC  US President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at the Palm Beach International Airport to spend Easter weekend at Mar-a-Lago resort on April 13, 2017 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Joe Raedle—Getty Images US President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at the Palm Beach International Airport to spend Easter weekend at Mar-a-Lago resort on April 13, 2017 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Joe Raedle—Getty ImagesJoe Raedle—Getty Images 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). Donald Trump Twitter: President Endorses Blank Gag Book ```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":"2026-02-23T04:26:29.552Z","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"}}]}] ```