Facebook / screenshotThe event was launched by Aaron Hamburger and Stacie Whitaker of Leaders Are Readers, a newly founded Facebook group. “Donald Trump doesn’t read books,” the About section reads. All the evidence accumulated over the years suggests, as The New York Times put it, “the president [...] does not read books.” Books can still be highly effective tools of resistance, however. In the above video, a man travels the subway in New York City reading books with sharply satirical fake covers, silently sending a political message. Neither Trump nor his staff will likely take reading recommendations from a campaign flooding the White House’s mail system with books about Frederick Douglass and the environment.

Source: Huffington Post February 06, 2017 21:05 UTC