Garrard McClendon

President Thug Garrard McClendon

President Thug is a serious, yet satirical comparison of Donald Trump's presidency and the depths of Dante's Inferno. The book leads Dante, Virgil, and Trump into each Circle of Hell, illustrating the sacrilege of Trump's sins, shortcomings, and scandals. Given the moniker "President Thug," Trump sees what he has done during his presidency, walking the imbalanced and nearly impossible terrain of damnation in the circles of Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, and Treachery. Catching a glimpse of Purgatorio and never reaching Paradiso, Trump settles himself into a life of doing the devil's work, feeling no remorse for hurting others and exercising no empathy for those who were in need of virtuous presidential powers. President Thug offers a peek into the window of Trump's soul, and a portal into the mind of a man who cares nothing about the highest good. Dante Alighieri and Virgil are no match for the careless and insensitive minion of Mephistopheles. Worse than Judas Iscariot, Brutus, Cassius, Screwtape, Abraxas, and Beelzebub, his name is Legion -- his name is President Thug.