Make Russia Great Again (2020) by Christopher Buckley.
Good Reads meta-data is 220 pages, rated 3.68 by 2,145 litizens.
Genre: Satire.
DNA: Old Money.
Verdict: Ugh!
Tagline: It has happened (t)here.
A fictional account of the 7th Chief of the White House Staff in 3 years, as part of his rehabilitation in a Federal prison. Told absolutely deadpan. The author’s delight is obvious in having the great manure pile all to himself and he feasts on it. And it is sharp and deadly, but…well, reality is worse than fiction. Intended as a Swift satire, reality has overtaken it since publication. The most garish, stupid, outlandish, vile things in the book seem childish compared to what has happened since.
All those Dr Frankensteins, large and small, who created this monster with votes and donations in the mistaken belief they could control it, will be proven wrong. It is an old story, quite unknown to fools, that the monster always bites the hand that feeds it. Since that is the closest hand, it starts there.
Enuf said.
Buckley has a long list of novels to his credit and I might try another when the dust settles from reading this. Starting with Little Green Men.