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A guest editorial by presidential candidate Donald Trump:
First of all, I have to say, book burning is terrible, okay? I don't support book burning. I'm totally opposed to it. But some in our country, they want to burn books. And can you blame them? I mean it, folks. Have you seen some of these books? They're disgraceful, a lot of them. Really disgusting stuff. I'm not talking about The Art of the Deal. It's a book for all time. It's bigger than the Bible--bigger than anything! But the other books. They have so many lies. And they're not writing about Trump, unfortunately. So they're not very interesting. So maybe they should be burned, but I would never burn them. If other people want to burn them, that's okay. I would support that, I have to say. They can even burn them at my rallies. I would pay for the matches. But I'm against it. I'm against book burning.
You know, it's very politically correct to say we shouldn't burn books. But we have to stop with political correctness. It's killing our country. If we burn a few books, maybe it's good for the country. Have you seen the flames on those piles? It's a beautiful sight. People say, "Why won't you disavow it?" I disavow. Okay? I don't support burning books. But I'd like to see how high a stack of books could burn at my rally in Pittsburgh on Saturday. Bring as many books as you can. I'm not saying you should have a book burning, you understand. I'm just saying light the suckers on fire. It's time to take a stand against political correctness.
I have many great friends who are authors, and some of them--not all--have called me and said, "Thank you for saying what no one else had the courage to say. We need to burn some books." That's not me saying it, it's them. They want to see their books burned--they'll be relieved, quite frankly. Because they know it will be good for the country.
Many people at my rallies have tremendous passion and love for this country, a love for burning books, and they're very angry when they see what's going on in this country. When was the last time you saw a good book burning? We don't burn books anymore. It's sad. Another great part of America that we don't have anymore. A raging book fire is a beautiful thing in many respects. But I certainly don't condone it. I only ask that you bring as many books as you have, some of the really bad ones, to Pittsburgh on Saturday or Wisconsin this weekend or Connecticut in a couple of weeks when I'll be there. And let's light the night on fire. Burn 'em! Burn 'em! Burn 'em! I'd like to see that. Let's make our country great again by burning the crap out of a whole lot of books. I won't be a part of it, but if people want to do it, who am I to stop them?
Please, go out there and torch some books, which again I have come out very strongly against, let me be very clear about that.
Scott Dikkers, author of Trump's America: The Complete Loser's Guide (Micro Publishing Media, distributed by IPG), is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author who founded the TheOnion.com and served as its owner and editor-in-chief for much of the last 28 years. He's the recipient of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, a Peabody and more than 30 Webby Awards.