What might Donald Trump’s presidential memoir look like – and can he sell it?

The post-presidential wave of books about Donald Trump is beginning to crest, with more and more autopsies of his presidency and deep-dives on specific subjects on the way – all adding to the already swollen canon of Trump literature, a genre that’ll be alive for decades to come (maybe even longer).

And Trump isn’t just one of the most written-about modern presidents: he’s also one of the most published, as well as one of the best-selling. And when the 45th president’s surely inevitable memoir of his time in office materialises, it will be the 20th book credited at least in part to him – though he has made no secret of the fact that his oeuvre was mostly penned by ghostwriters, many of whom he has bitterly and publicly fallen out with.

But in 2021, things are different. While Mike Pence, Jared Kushner, Bill Barr and others have had no trouble finding publishers to pay massive advances for their stories, Mr Trump is reportedly struggling to get a book deal at all.