I agree with Ms. Renzetti's characterization of Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree", perhaps the most odious children's book I have ever encountered; after going throuh it myself first, I refused to read it or anything else by that author to my daughter when she was little. Over the years, the tree lovingly provides all manner of benefits to the boy - eventually even giving up its life to the man the boy has become - while he shows absolutely no gratitude or even the barest recognition of all the gifts he has received. Like Trump, he takes everything that comes to him for granted, with no concern for anything but his own self-interest. And, with no sense of irony or larger moral perspective, the author presents the boy's/man's total lack of awareness or insight as being absolutely fine. But I agree that it describes Trump to a T.