Charleston, S.C. – October 30, 2026 -- Palmetto Publishing has released Not My President, a book of 48 numbered quotations from Donald J. Trump, now available at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com.
Each entry is one quotation followed by a plain footnote naming the speaker, the venue, the city and the date. The compiler, listed as J. Williams, adds no jokes and no analysis. The full title is Not My President: Dumb Things Said by the 45th and 47th President of the United States.
The first entry comes from a 2019 kidney health signing
The book opens on July 10, 2019, at the signing of an executive order on advancing American kidney health in Washington, D.C. The quoted line: "The kidney has a very special place in the heart." The footnote follows, then the next entry.
Sources run from a 1999 interview to a second term
The material comes from rally stages, Oval Office scrums, cabinet meetings, Twitter, a livestream, a town hall and the deck of Air Force One. It starts with a 1999 interview with the New York Times and extends into remarks made deep into a second term.
Entries are grouped by subject, not by date
Health care sits near testing and kidneys. Tariffs sit near inflation. Generals sit near the Civil War. Kim Jong-un sits near a stretch of North Korean beach described as a fine site for condominiums. At roughly one quotation per page, the book is built for browsing and for checking.
The author is a Global War on Terror veteran
The author describes the project as the work of an independent thinker rather than a partisan one. The author is a veteran of the Global War on Terror, raised in New England by parents born in the Jim Crow South. The author credits that background for an interest in what official rhetoric can cost the people it describes.