Tony Schwartz

Relationship with Donald Trump In 2016, Schwartz related that while writing The Art of the Deal in 1986–87, he was able to "shadow" Trump for nearly 18 months, during which time he spent long periods with him in Trump's office and residence. When Trump began his 2016 presidential run, Schwartz said that he found the idea of Trump becoming president "alarming", and gave a series of interviews to recount his experiences with Trump. These appeared in The New Yorker, Good Morning America, and Real Time with Bill Maher, among others.

Schwartz was critical of Trump, saying that he was poorly qualified to be president. He considered Trump to be "pathologically impulsive and self-centered", with a short attention span that "has left him with a stunning level of superficial knowledge and plain ignorance".

Trump subsequently attacked Schwartz on Twitter, calling him a "Dummy writer", "wanted to do a second book with me for years (I said no)", "a hostile basket case who feels jilted!" and an "Irrelevant dope!", and later threatened him with lawsuits.

Books Trump: The Art of the Deal with Donald Trump (Random House, 1987) What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America (Bantam, 1995) Work in Progress: Risking Failure, Surviving Success with Michael Eisner (Random House, 1998) The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal with Jim Loehr (Free Press, 2003) Be Excellent at Anything: The Four Keys to Transforming the Way We Work and Live with Jean Gomes and Catherine McCarthy, Ph.D. (Free Press, 2010) also published under the title The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance (Free Press, 2010) Dealing with the Devil: My Mother, Trump and Me (Audible Original, 2020)