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television, for serious readers. and now here is thank you everybody for coming out. i am the event cordoning or think you for coming out to the location tonight. as you likely know we host around 600 events a year. this location out of our flagship store and then also others around dc. and we are very pleased to host before we could get started. if everybody can to silence their cell phones. once everybody is good with that. we will work to move forward. in addition to working for a very small local paper the washington post is one of the nation's most prominent cartoonists. the president of the association of american editorial cartoonist. many prizes for her work.

and the ribbon award for the national cartoonist society. it puts her in such company. many more. with her new book she jumps into another sea of a remarkable artist and many who have been responding in book form to the fall out fallout of the 2016 election. in their own personal way. they had been reported on president donald trump's words. in this book. with some who is really talking to the president on his own level. not really for four years old. thank you to all of the tethers who are top who are in the audience name. as we know him visually. as well as the many political caricatures.

after the talk that unit is doing and we will have some questions. and with that i will turn it over. >> the launch of the abc book. it is exactly where it should be. since this is such a small book and i'm glad to see it there are no children in the audience because there are a few bad words in this. what is can go through the whole thing if you have your book there is a small child. the adult next to the small child might want to put the

hands over the ears at some point. we will start now. okay. b is for brand. c is for conflict of interest. don't care. d is for that nest. a treat there all -- they all share. after is for fake news created for cash. h is for helping select such i

is for itty bitty his hands j is for joke his hair and spray tan. k is for trying to kill it with no plan l is for lateness a band. m is for marriages ideal making coup. i was for opportunist which trump is down deep ps for pence. q is for question. are is for right that they will deprive.

of power in abuse. t is for tweeting u.s. for united which we are not the is for vladimir the election-year plot. w is for wishful thinking they have x is for xanax which we will all need real bad. why is for years the damage is done. [applause]. i will just tell you a little

bit about how this book came about. i did not plan to do an abc book. i have done a lot of sketches last year during the primary especially of the gazillion debates that we have and i originally tried to get a book published of those sketches and my book agent went around and this is still during the primary it still understand that most people thought it hillary was going to win the presidency myself included and i just couldn't get any interest in it. i think people were already tired of it and they thought that hillary was going to win. so the feedback that i was getting from publishers was we would really like to see a hillary book. but for some reason. i have a nagging feeling and i just couldn't get it off the ground. of course then the election happened and we all were surprised and most of us now

obviously evie everybody will be interested in a trump book. so we try that for a while. i just put it aside. i have a nine hour drive down in a nine hour drive back and i was driving my dog doesn't drive. so i did not had my hands free to do any kind of sketches but i was thinking about a suggestion that a friend have given me i kept doing it in then by the time i get up to dc i have a book.

if any of you are artists or do anything creatively i think the hardest thing at least for me is to let go and let that happen. when you get something in your head that i head in my head. it just came. so that was a nice surprise. i just a few took a few hours to do some sketching. the wonderful little art school if you've never been there. i was talking to james stern i will put you in touch.

i went ahead and have an e-mail exchange with the publisher there. and it was great. it was like none of the other publishers. they said let's do it. basically, this is done at the beginning of 2017. the artwork was finished by may i was a little concerned that it would not hold up. if i have any -- if anybody has any questions i'd be happy to answer them. [indiscernible]

how did my depiction of trump change from the primary to now. i'm still playing with that type. i have done a couple of those when he ran for president. which is a couple of times. that was more joke like. when he announced this time. it is all about him. the more i listen to him and i listen to it was all about him.

i have gone back to actually doing colors by hand. [indiscernible] in my 18 hour trips that to have any other ideas that were too obscene to do. probably. but i did not remember them. i will have to go back and listen. it is amazing except for a couple of letters i pretty much kept to this. i remember going back and forth on. at that time they were just in

the middle of a trying to kill it and i was not sure should i say they killed it or not. i think they are going to try to kill it. [indiscernible] would you consider doing a sequel. you're right. the only thing i find wanting as the other is the other things i want to address. i don't know. maybe i could do 123 i have to make a decision on what i was going to do for each letter. there were certain things that i wanted to make sure.

the separation of power. just because i think people would notice. i wanted to hit specific things. using it was a deliberate thing on my part. they would not have allowed me to use and any other situation. and now i use it. separation of powers. i could've done that whole thing .

[indiscernible] the question as has trump reacted to any of my cartoons. not that i know of. i honestly think it's because the man does not read. he gets his information from television we are not on television. i think that is the reason he hasn't noticed that. there has been plenty of work out there. from the editorial that was

something they have to sell me on. i dropped very large and i tend to want my work printed large. at first i thought it would be a bigger book but then i was talking to a really great book designer. and gary grosse. they were both telling me that they need to do this is a board book. but when i sought and held in my hands i thought yes, this will bully -- this will really work. you know, it's something in the reason i dropped large is because my background is in art background.

i just feel like i drop better, larger it takes more time i feel like it does a better job. with the end process. i just wondered the rhyming is sane and that it worked well. and it was hard to do. maybe because i was in the car. you a lot of time. i said a lot of things over and over. i'm sure my dog was just going like this the whole time

down. i think because i was raised on the dr. seuss books. that might have helped me a little bit. it worked. [inaudible conversations] is there a way i tune it out. i have to be honest with you. ever since trump became president i had been drawing

cartoons now for 25 years. and even though i did a lot of cartoons i did not agree with the policies there. it is a different situation there. because i think it is a dangerous time. we have to decide what we are going to drop. to make sure that there is a lot of silliness and in being on social media that tends to be something that spirals out of control. i try to make sure that i'm criticizing actions and policy decisions and not just things like stupid things he said. the things that had consequences. i don't know if i'm always successful at that but that's what i try to do.

i'm having trouble sleeping a lot lately. that is the only thing that i do try to do i don't tend to watch the easy -- the evening news stuff. my mind is racing for the rest of the evening. that is the only personal struggle i have. i think it will go on for a while. i really do. there was a short time there right after he became president maybe this is to can be over quickly. the problem is and this is a stuff that i do republican leadership are the enablers. they had decided they're going to keep this man an office as

long as they can. what he when he responds to and what he wants. it will be a back-and-forth situation with them. we will just head to roll along with it. i think it will take a while. [indiscernible] it must be very tempting. and not so much the more complicate it stuff [inaudible conversations] the question is more about how do you decide the important issues to take on rather than silliness.

i take a lot of notes. because like i said it's really a question of what am i going to address today and i make sure that i keep the ones that i might be able to come back to later. but it is more difficult to do. the environmental protection agency is a great example. they are getting it and people well not realize that it affects them until they turn the faucet on and they had dirty water. i try to make sure that i address those things. like i said. especially when tv is talking about the recent silliness. that's what people are pain attention to. [inaudible conversations].

[indiscernible] he's one of those examples that i think my character doesn't look like him but it is him. i have done sarah huckabee she's interesting. there is a lot of good characters in this administration. there he is. he has not is not in that one. there we go. he's back there. this is interesting because

the kkk was the last thing i put in the book. this is actually when they kept getting more and more people in it. i was so thankful when it scare mucci dropped out because i was like where my going to put in. someone else have a question. it was an intentional i have a close friend when i showed it to her and she said you ended it on a positive note. that's not you. i said zebra is hard but what am i to do. [indiscernible]

these are just generic businessman and that's that the generic trump person. this is actually something i remember from a post article where they were talking about fake news in the way that trump does. in the beginning there was actual countries where they have teenagers writing a fake fake news which ended up on facebook where people got all of their news from. that was this image. we have just a woman, trump charlottesville huckabee spicer remember be an end. and this one it's hard to see because it's james comey.

this is just the time he came out and he got fired and everybody said he's a hero, we failed to remember that he is the one that decided to announce that he was reopening the investigation into hillary. that's the reason i stuck half of them in there. mcconnell the supreme court nominees and of course the three wives. and of course eric's fun. and of course pants and trump again.

reporters. okay. do you see him as wrong or evil. i'm just wondering i did the republican leadership as evil. has your perception of him changed. i think it's an opportunist. that's what i've always done in my work.

i think is a lot of faults. he is an opportunist in the worst sense. he will say anything to get what he wants. but he has a lot of people around him that are enabling him to do that. that's him. as you make him blah cheer and blotch year gets more and more discussing. i do make him more and more blotchy. yes, i do.

the post i come up with the idea and i run it by him. they've always let me decide what i want to do it on they had nixed a few things. around the time of the charlottesville protest and then the killing i came up with an idea that they would not allow me to do because i think they were concerned about the tenor of the country i think if i had offered that idea at any other i time it probably would have gone through. so sometimes you get a think i am not syndicated. i'm exclusive to the washington post.

i do other work occasionally but yes they have the first rights. go back to the news, they ran it. all cartoonists get threatened at some point or another. the depending on what's happening at the time after september 11. that was a difficult time. some of you might have heard i did a cartoon about senator cruise and i got a lot of threats for that. i think when everybody's emotions are running high as when is when you get the most. but mostly we get e-mails telling us how stupid we are.

[indiscernible] the question was how i got into that and then do i have any desire to get out of it. it sort of depends. i've actually started i went to school for animation i went to council in the traditional disney style. i worked for a few years in the animation industry. i have no interest in politics whatsoever i did not read newspapers. i lived in la. why do i need to read newspapers. i was doing a freelance project and i have the television on.

in 1989 it happened right in front of my eyes. i think that woke me up. i became more and more interested in political events and i just started watching c-span a lot and i just started doing my own editorial cartoons. what finally caused me to decide that i wanted to be cartoonists. i was a young woman in my 20s and i have dealt with sexual harassment myself and i knew perfectly well that it was a problem and to watch a bunch of senators up there both conservatives, liberals say that they cannot possibly have happened and they did not believe in anita help. you can think the senators it is a reason that i am an editorial cartoonist.

i think the me to movement will affect the 20 -- the 2022 election. they're really mad. and i hope so. i think it is about time it's funny to hear people talk about and other forms of sexual discrimination. there is all forms. i've dealt with it. my entire career i laugh when i hear people expressed doubt about it. here i'm going to give you a when i was down the at like

trump grabs people i'm not a i was floored. into deal with the sent to female policeman and took down everything and some 30 something-year-old guy thinking then the reason i'm

smiling is because a lot of my are out thank you so much here's a look at some of michael wolff's exposé on dan harris gets his thoughts and then they that's with ulysses

s a look at some of in which he recalls how he balances professional the leading half your life. followed after that opera winfrey's insight from her most meaningful conversations. the wisdom of sunday's. and wrapping up i look at some of the books from the los angeles times nonfiction bestseller list is the dangerous case of critical look at the mental health of the president. many of these authors have appeared on book tv. you can and it when we were

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