Art of the Deal ghostwriter speaks out against Donald Trump: Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter and actual credited co-writer of Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal, or as Sarah Palin calls it, the Art of the Dill, has spoken out against Trump in a long essay published by the New Yorker. While Schwartz admits that in writing the book, he played a hand in creating Trump’s larger than life public image (“I was overly worried about money,” Schwartz explains, citing the reason he took the offer to write the book), decided that he had to speak out against the Republican candidate for president, who was officially crowned the Republican candidate at yesterday’s Republican National Convention.

“I put lipstick on a pig. I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is.” Schwartz goes on to describe what he viewed as Trump’s largest defining characteristic that he gleaned from months of interviews and observing him closely, and which the US media has failed to really discuss — Donald Trump has no attention span. “This fundamental aspect of who he is doesn’t seem to be fully understood,” Schwartz says. “It’s impossible to keep him focused on any topic, other than his own self-aggrandizement, for more than a few minutes.” (Read Donald Trump’s ghostwriter tells all)