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The Haircut Who Would Be King Kindle Edition

by Robert Trebor (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A farcical sendup of Donald Trump’s rise to power and volatile partnership with Vladimir Putin...As a young boy, Donald Rump was less than precocious—a miserable student, prone to implacable tantrums, whose emotional intelligence ceased maturing at the age of 9. But the region of the brain responsible for egomaniacal self-assessment was prodigiously large.

After some success and plenty more failure in real estate, he turns his attentions to reality TV and hosts a show called “Paycheck,” each episode of which concludes with Rump singing “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina.”

Meanwhile, Vladimir Poutine was raised by KGB agents during the early years of Khrushchev’s reign. Poutine, a latent homosexual who immerses himself in the self-consciously manly world of “physical culture,” reads magazines about bodybuilding. Crushed by the demise of the Soviet Union, he copes in the most peculiar way: “he would slip into a silver lamé gown, pop on a curly wig and perform Marlene Dietrich classics at a local drag bar.”

Rump decides he’d like to try his hand at politics and recruits shock jock Alex Clamz from the popular but frothing radio show, “Disinfowarz.” He runs for president opposite Mallory Claxton, a sensible woman with a sterling career in public service. Despite a bizarre campaign and a trail of seedy scandals, Rump wins with clandestine help from Poutine.

And then, the fun really begins.

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"Debut author Trebor displays a sharp attunement to the politically absurd and a talent for making the already peculiar into the raucously silly. The first rule of parody is that it be genuinely funny, and the author accomplishes that repeatedly. Also, the book slyly interjects some serious reflection into...a hilarious rendering of the contemporary political scene."
- Kirkus Reviews

"The Haircut Who Would Be King beautifully caricatures these two contrasting, but equally ridiculous, politicians and their peculiar relationship (Trump and Putin). Trebor draws a perceptive emphasis on the alarming state of modern day politics. His parody sheds light and humor in the midst of all the dark elements of today's world, and it's hard not to appreciate this literature all the more for it...Finally, when we are not sure where the story can go beyond the present day, his parody continues with the deliberately absurd until the very end, with fireworks the reader can't even dream of."
- The San Francisco Book Review

"The Haircut Who Would Be King: A Political Fable by Robert Trebor is one of the funniest books I have ever read. The fact that it is based, not even loosely, on current political situations makes it eminently more readable and, believe me, this is not just another send-up. Mr. Trebor has got these characters scarily accurate, so much so that when I see the real ones on TV now, I shall probably struggle to keep a straight face. Skillfully woven, intertwining two stories into one, Mr. Trebor has created, in my opinion, a true masterpiece here."
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About the Author

Robert Trebor is a character actor with more than 40 years experience on stage, film and television. Two of his noteworthy roles are The Son of Sam in the film Out Of The Darkness, and Salmoneus the merchant in the Hercules and Xena TV series. Playing both a psychopath and a salesman was enormously helpful in preparing this book.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07QF2LSFZ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palindrome Press (1 May 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1141 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 186 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0578475685
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Okay, since Amazon uses Frank McCourt's bio as a model for inspiration, I'll start there.

I actually met Frank and shared the stage with him in 1998 at the Kennedy Center as a guest presenter at the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards ceremony. Kathy Bates, Joyce Maynard,

and Walter Mosley were the other celebs sharing advice with burgeoing artists. My major nugget was "If you're not being rejected at least six times a day, you're not trying hard enough."

My reason for being invited was that I had been a multiple winner of this award in high school,

and that in '98 I was a popular character on the TV series Hercules and Xena. After the event we all went out to a bar in DC, and Frank held up his end as a voluble thirsty Irish bloke.

He was genuinely sweet, unassuming, and still slightly dazed by the spotlight of fame after all the years of being a working stiff, teaching in the New York public schools.

Fast forward 14 years to 2012, and I was diagnosed with acute leukemia. Was I surprised!

After aggressive chemo I went into remission...for a short time. After I relapsed doctors told me I had a four percent chance of surviving a couple months if I couldn't remit sufficently to get to stem cell transplant. Through a series of fortunate but somewhat grueling circumstances, I got there. And I am writing this. And maybe I was spared so I could write The Haircut Who Would Be King. Maybe it will enter the political conversation and do some good.

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Jennifer Perry
5.0 out of 5 stars Trebor's Brilliance And Razor Sharp Comedic Timing Expertly Drive The Haircut Who Would Be King!
Reviewed in the United States on 9 July 2019
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And you guessed it, it's about the Haircut that is clogging the sink, driving down the property values of the USA, and making it the embarrassing family who always makes a scene fighting loudly in a restaurant and blaming it all on the servers.
Sometimes it's hard to read the news about the latest gaff, faux pas, or outright idiotic move by the Cheeto colored Benito, even when parsed out by late night comics. Robert Trebor, as skilled a writer and director as he is an actor, guides our tour of this entertaining trope with skill and balance and a barely disguised adumbration of our future if swift measures aren't taken before the next election.
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Jennifer Perry
5.0 out of 5 stars Trebor's Brilliance And Razor Sharp Comedic Timing Expertly Drive The Haircut Who Would Be King!
Reviewed in the United States on 9 July 2019
And you guessed it, it's about the Haircut that is clogging the sink, driving down the property values of the USA, and making it the embarrassing family who always makes a scene fighting loudly in a restaurant and blaming it all on the servers.
Sometimes it's hard to read the news about the latest gaff, faux pas, or outright idiotic move by the Cheeto colored Benito, even when parsed out by late night comics. Robert Trebor, as skilled a writer and director as he is an actor, guides our tour of this entertaining trope with skill and balance and a barely disguised adumbration of our future if swift measures aren't taken before the next election.
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CJ Sweeney
5.0 out of 5 stars This book will make you laugh, to stop you from crying,
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 May 2019
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Great bit of satire, and a fun read. It's hilarious.
It will make you laugh, to stop you crying and rocking in the corner, trying desperately to self-soothe.
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Alvin Zbryski
5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious and a Bit Scary
Reviewed in the United States on 2 January 2020
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I finally read this wonderful parody over the holidays and I was both amused and quite entertained. In the darkness in which we live every day, and with all the Trump books available to scare you daily about our nebulous future, it was great to read something so cleverly absurd as to make you forgot reality for a while. Highly recommended.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Not recommended to my friends
Reviewed in the United States on 10 March 2021
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The book was funny but way too much filth. We had enough filth from Mr. Rump everyday for 4 years. Would not recommend it to my friends. Too bad could have been great if you left out most of the filth.
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sherri Rabinowitz
5.0 out of 5 stars A Witty Satire!
Reviewed in the United States on 11 May 2019
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This was a fun and a very interesting satire. He combined what is happening in a humorous, fictional cloth. Very much like Mark Twain and Will Rogers he spun a tale with humor and a great deal of wit but there was just a sharp enough edge so you know it was couched in the reality of our time.
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