Matt-- Now I get it. DJT is 269 x the bad business man that Sam Clemens was! And given that _Art of the Deal_ was entirely ghosted, Trump was zero times the writer that Mark Twain was. --LH Larry Howe Professor of English & Film Studies Department of Literature and Languages Roosevelt University Editor, Studies in American Humor President, Mark Twain Circle of America ________________________________________ From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Matthew Seybold <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 2:18:06 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: The Art of The Deal [Sent by an External User] I feel compelled to convert yesterday’s NYT expose about the President’s tax returns into terms which Twain scholars will comprehend: Over the course of a single decade Donald Trump lost, after adjusting for inflation, 269 Paige Typesetters. *************** Matt Seybold Assistant Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies Elmira College Editor, MarkTwainStudies.org MattSeybold.com