About the Process

The chronicle draws on public events, public statements, and matters of public record. The dates are real. The events happened. The quotes are drawn from the documented record. What changes is the lens: compression, stylization, and comic exaggeration transform the news cycle into something that reads like it was inscribed on parchment by a scribe who has been watching all of this unfold and is deeply, professionally tired.

Many events have been compressed, stylized, or rendered through comic exaggeration for effect. This is satire, not journalism. The scribe takes liberties. The liberties are the point. But beneath the liberties, the bones of the chronicle are built on documented fact.

The Book of Don joins a long tradition of satirical works that use formal, elevated literary structures to examine political power. From Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal to Mark Twain's political writings, from the mock-heroic poetry of Alexander Pope to the political allegories of George Orwell — satire has always been one of literature's most effective tools for holding power to account.

What makes this work distinctive is its chosen form: the biblical chronicle. By casting the Trump era in the language and structure of sacred text, the author reveals something about the era that straight journalism and conventional political commentary cannot quite capture — the mythological quality of this particular moment in American life, the way the facts themselves feel scriptural in their improbability.