The tide has turned at the White House: For the first time since 2016, the Oval Office is occupied by a pretty boring presidential couple, and folks, it shows:
Gone are the Tweets that sent newsrooms scrambling. So long to the five alarm Friday news dumps that had editors frantically rearranging weekend plans. Bye-bye to the massive TV budgets for White House specials and the firehose of publishing deals for books about the administration. NPD BookScan, which tracks book sales in the U.S., said that prominent books about Trump released in his first two years of office outsold Biden books during his first year and a half by, what an official there said was, "essentially 10:1." A newly released biography about Jill Biden, by two well-respected Associated Press journalists, sold just 250 units in its first week, according to the company.
Exclusive footage of those numbers coming back to the executive staff of the Office of the First Lady:
Honestly, this sort of thing seems like it was made for best-seller status. I can't imagine why it's not selling. As one reviewer put it:
Comprehensive and rich in detail, it seems to encapsulate Jill Biden for who she is and what she has accomplished.
Well I dunno about you but I'm gonna hustle over to the nearest Borders Books and grab me a copy!
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