Time to Get Tough
First edition cover
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| Author |
Donald Trump Wynton Hall Peter Schweizer Meredith McIver |
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| Audio read by | Malcolm Hillgartner (2011) Jim Meskimen (2012) |
| Original title | Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | American politics |
| Genre | Government |
| Publisher | Regnery Publishing |
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Publication date
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2011 |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 256 |
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| OCLC | 730403828 |
| Preceded by | Midas Touch (2011) |
| Followed by | Crippled America (2015) |
| Website | Official website |
Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again is a non-fiction book by Donald Trump. It was first published in hardcover format by Regnery Publishing in 2011. It was reissued under the new title Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again! by the same publisher in 2015, to match Trump's 2016 election campaign slogan. Trump had previously published The America We Deserve (2000) as preparation for his attempt to run in the 2000 U.S. presidential campaign with a populist platform.Time to Get Tough in contrast served as his prelude to the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign, with a conservative platform.
Trump makes his case for why he would be an effective leader of the United States. He criticizes the success rate of President Barack Obama. Trump praises America, writing "We are the greatest country the world has ever known." Mixing personal stories in with his prescriptions for U.S. policy, Trump recounts lessons learned as host of The Celebrity Apprentice and his experience being satirized at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner by President Obama and comedian Seth Meyers. On domestic policy issues, Trump recommends abolishing U.S. corporate tax and raising the retirement age. On foreign policy matters, he criticizes the negative impact of China and OPEC on the U.S. Trump praises Russian leader Vladimir Putin, saying "I respect Putin and the Russians".Time to Get Tough asserts business experience can be transposed into governmental success: experiences in global finance deals can be imported to successfully negotiate governmental agreements on an international level.
Breitbart News contributors Wynton Hall and Peter Schweizer assisted with composing the book, along with writer Meredith McIver. The book debuted at spot 27 on The New York Times Best Seller list. A book review from On the Issues was critical, noting how Trump had flip-flopped on political views from his prior policy book, The America We Deserve.The New York Review of Books called the book's domestic policy writing style boring.Washington Post book critic Carlos Lozada criticized Trump for lambasting The New York Times on his campaign while simultaneously advertising the book as a New York Times Best Seller.Entertainment Weekly called the work a "diatribe against the Obama presidency, illegal immigration, and the people and media outlets who have dared to criticize him."
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