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DBoon

(22,354 posts)
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 04:59 PM Sep 2018

For a slightly less serious book about the Trump administration

I came across this


MAD Dumps On Trump: A Brilliant Look At Our Brainless President is an all-out comedy assault on the most idiotic idiot to ever reach the White House (George W. Bush and visitors included)! In these 128 pages, President Trump is mercilessly mocked, relentlessly ridiculed and savagely satirized. The book features MAD’s sharpest satiric shots at “The Donald,” comically chronicling his rise from obnoxious businessman to really obnoxious reality show host to uber obnoxious “Commander-in-Tweet.” Please note: MAD will not offer refunds on this book when Trump is impeached!


I am amazed that MAD Magazine is still around
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For a slightly less serious book about the Trump administration (Original Post) DBoon Sep 2018 OP
I used to read MAD The Genealogist Sep 2018 #1
I grew up reading "Mad" magazine in the late 50's and beyond. Always entertaining. dameatball Sep 2018 #2
My mother would not allow my sister and me to read MAD Ohiogal Sep 2018 #3

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
1. I used to read MAD
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 05:04 PM
Sep 2018

It was one of my favorite things to read from about 6th grade thru 8th or 9th. They sold it at the convenience store near where i lived. This would have been about 1986-1988.

dameatball

(7,396 posts)
2. I grew up reading "Mad" magazine in the late 50's and beyond. Always entertaining.
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 05:07 PM
Sep 2018

When my kids were in their adolescent years I bought a few "Mads" just to see if they liked it as much as I had. I was quite surprised how well "Mad" had aged, because they loved it.

'Cracked" was pretty good also, but not as good as 'Mad" IMHO.

Ohiogal

(31,963 posts)
3. My mother would not allow my sister and me to read MAD
Thu Sep 13, 2018, 05:21 PM
Sep 2018

because in her opinion, it was "low brow garbage" ....

So naturally that meant we'd buy it at the drugstore when walking home from school and read it on the sneak. I'm talking mid 60s here. MAD had some of the most hilarious cartoons I've ever read. Really funny stuff. I still remember laughing hysterically at some of the TV and movie satires ("Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea" became "Voyage to See What's On The Bottom", etc.). and Dave Berg's "The Lighter Side Of ....". They don't make em like that anymore!

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