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good morning everyone i'm norman eisen i'm a senior fellow here at brookings and i'm delighted to be with you for the launch of my new book overcoming trumpery today each of my expert co-authors seven of whom you will meet uh will address different aspects of trump's style of governance in depth the effects that that had on our nation and on american democracy when he was in office and the continuing impacts it is having today as others learn from and adapt that style of governance and what appropriate responses to it are i want to thank the brookings institution our president john allen the head of the governance studies department where i work and where this book was written and edited darrell west and all of the co-authors of the volume our wonderful publisher uh bill finan at the brookings press and uh all of those who helped us put together today's seminar when i went back over everything in the uh book all of the chapters to prepare for our book launch today today is the is the official publication date and for this webinar i have to admit that even i was shocked by the full extent of the harm to american governance that was done during the trump administration and that is continuing because as you'll hear today trump may be out of office but trumpery is very much alive and spreading throughout our nation uh it's important to capture that uh for posterity contrary to the popular view of former president trump making ad hoc chaotic reflexive reactions there actually was a coherent if corrupt philosophy that emerged from his four years in office initially when my co-authors and i were working on the book we were calling it trumpism but then my brilliant english professor wife came up with an even more fitting term trumpery and if we can have the slide please here is the oxford english dictionary on the meaning of the term trumpery as you can see uh it has two definitions it dates back to 1578 the first uh usage and it is deceit fraud imposture or trickery and the second definite definition uh from samuel johnson's dictionary something of less value than it seems something of no value worthless stuff trash and rubbish but even trash and rubbish can be very very dangerous uh if enough of it accumulates you can take down that slide now uh even trash and rubbish can represent a peril and the same is true with trumpery i have extracted uh with the help of my authors co-authors the following uh seven characteristics uh from the deceitful fraudulent uh style of governance that we refer to as trempery i should hasten to add that each of the authors did a deep dive in their area of expertise as you'll hear from a number of them today and then i uh uh extracted the analysis of these seven characteristics that you see uh...