Junior shops big book deal
AS this year’s best-seller list continues to be crammed with books on the Trump administration, Page Six has learned that Donald Trump Jr. wants to add his name to the list.
Publishing insiders tell Page Six that Trump Jr. is shopping a tome, and is being repped by top agent David Vigliano’s literary firm AGI Vigliano. The agency’s been behind recent books by Rose McGowan, Mike Tyson, Joy Behar, Newt Gingrich and Lil Wayne, as well as Chip and Joanna Gaines, Janet Jackson and Luann de Lesseps.
It’s unclear what the book would cover. But Trump Jr. has certainly been in the headlines, for everything from his meeting with a Russian agent offering dirt on Hillary Clinton in 2016 to his dramatic split from Vanessa Trump in April, which was revealed by Page Six.
A stream of this year’s top best sellers have been about the Trump administration — “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” by Michael Wolff, Michael Isikoff and David Corn’s “Russian Roulette,” and former FBI head James Comey’s recent “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership” — though none of those have been supportive. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper this week published “Facts and Fears: Hard Truths From a Life in Intelligence.”
Short-lived White House communications di- rector Anthony Scaramucci inked a book deal in March, and his immediate replacement, Hope Hicks, has reportedly been swamped with requests for her to pen a book, with one offering a $10 million advance. Trump Jr.’s mom, Ivana, published the memoir “Raising Trump” last year.
But one publishing source quipped of a potential Trump Jr. tome, “Do his father’s lawyers know about the book? Just asking!”
Signaling a further move into media, Page Six reported this month, Trump Jr. has moved on from estranged wife Vanessa to Fox News beauty Kimberly Guilfoyle. Reps for Trump Jr. and AGI Vigliano did not respond to multiple requests for comment.