MixedThe New York Times Book ReviewBuckley’s Trump is sufficiently churlish and childish, but the novel is stranded between White House reflection and funhouse mirror. Some names are changed comically (Sean Hannity becomes Seamus Colonnity), some altered arbitrarily (Jored/Ivunka), others left intact (Rudy Giuliani) ... As the threat of extortion mounts and the president’s petulance rises to meet it, Buckley resorts to a deus ex machina and then a dense expositional epilogue ... Are there pleasures? Of course. Buckley is intelligent and ingenious and at times pitch-perfect...But more punches are thrown than landed.
