As a children's book author and editor, I've genuinely wondered how publishers will handle including President Trump in their established books series about the US presidents. You can't editorialize or include your opinions in these educational books; you can only present facts.

So, tonight I had a go at writing one, sticking only to reported, verified facts, and trying to keep opinions out of it. This is honestly a genuine exercise. I want to see how one could describe his time in office & I'd love to know how you'd handle it if required to. Here goes:

p. 1 - Title page: Facts About President Donald J. Trump
Book #45 in the American Presidents Series

pp. 2-3 - Donald J. Trump was the 45th President of the United States.

pp. 4-5 - Before he was elected, he hosted a TV show where he pretended to fire people from their jobs.

pp. 6-7 - Leading up to the 1996 election, Trump called Mexican people “rapists”. A month before the election, a tape was found where he bragged about sexually assaulting women.

pp. 8-9 - On Nov. 8, 2016, Donald J. Trump was elected President. He stated that the vote tallies were incorrect.

pp. 10-11 - Outgoing President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attended incoming President Trump’s inauguration and welcomed him and his wife Melania Trump to the White House.

pp. 12-13 - Previously, President Trump had said that President Obama was not born in the United States. President Obama was born in the United States.

pp, 14-15 - President Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer said the crowds for the inauguration were the largest in history. This was later proven to be false using photographic evidence.

pp. 16-17 - A few days later, White House staffer Kellyanne Conway said the incorrect claim was not a lie, and coined the phrase “alternative facts."

pp. 18-19 - Unlike other presidents, President Trump refused to share his tax returns. Taxes pay for things like roads and water. In 2019, the New York Times found copies of the returns. He paid $750 in 2016 and again in 2017.

pp. 20-21 - In his first two weeks in office, President Trump did many things: Banned the Environmental Protection Agency from speaking; deported immigrants who had received speeding tickets; banned travelers to the US from Muslim countries . . .

. . . and ordered a raid on Yemen to find out information about terrorists. (No information was found, but a Navy SEAL and close to 30 civilians, including children, were killed.)

pp. 22-23 - In 2019, President Trump was impeached for asking the President of the Ukraine to find damaging information about his opponent, Joseph Biden. The Republican-led Senate did not allow the impeachment to pass and President Trump stayed in office.

pp. 24-25 - In early 2020, the global pandemic COVID-19 hit. Scientists asked people to wear masks to reduce the spread. President Trump would not wear a mask and said, “It’s going to be just fine." President Trump got COVID. A year later, 400,000 Americans had died from it.

pp. 26-27 - On November 3, 2020, President Trump lost the re-election to Joseph Biden. He lost the popular vote and the electoral college vote but said the votes tallies were incorrect. His lawyer held a meeting in the parking lot of a Pennsylvania landscaping company . . .

. . . President Trump filed and lost over 60 lawsuits about the election results.

pp. 28-29 - On January 6, 2021, President Trump held a rally to talk about the election results. He told the crowd to “fight like hell”. They then went to the Capitol building and broke into it. A police officer was murdered. President Trump said to the rioters, “We love you!”

pp. 30-31 - On January 13, 2021, President Trump was impeached for the second time, for provoking the riot at the Capitol. He is the only president to be impeached twice. This time, ten Republican politicians agreed that he should be impeached.

pp. 32 - On the morning of January 20, 2020, President Trump and Mrs. Trump left the White House in a helicopter and flew to their home in Florida. They did not attend the inauguration of President Joseph Biden, nor did they stay to welcome the Bidens to the White House.

The end.