Trump's 1987 book The Art of the Deal says that being an atheist gives Trump "an edge in every deal."
Trump's 1987 book The Art of the Deal says that being an atheist gives Trump "an edge in every deal."
A purported quote about the business advantage of being an atheist from Donald Trumpâ€™s 1987 bookÂ The Art of the DealÂ has been circulating as a meme since at least May 2017: < â€œBeing an atheist gives me an edge in every deal. Christians are too moral for business.â€ > This quote does not appear in Trumpâ€™sÂ The Art of the Deal.Â We searched variousÂ digitalÂ copies of the book and found no incidence of these sentences â€” or even the word â€œatheist.â€ In fact, Trumpâ€™s book is practically void of religious mentions (it is, after all, a business book). Although theÂ Art of the Deal quote isÂ fake, theÂ New York TimesÂ quote in this meme is real and appears on the cover of some editions of the book. On 7 December 1987, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt ended his review ofÂ The Art of the DealÂ by saying that â€œMr. Trump makes one believe for a moment in the American dream again.â€ However, the meme excludes the next sentence: â€œItâ€™s like a fairy tale.â€ A similar rumor holding that Trump identified himself as an atheist spread during the 2016 presidential election. In that case, the rumor was that Trump hadÂ bragged on The Phil Donahue Show in 1989Â that his â€œimpossibly high I.Q.â€ made it impossible for him to not be an atheist. We found that quote to beÂ fakeÂ as well.
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