The Emperor’s New Clothes & The Climate Clock is an urgent and unapologetic exposé that dismantles the illusion of power and exposes the billionaire-driven machine that has seized control of American democracy.

Written in the early days of 2025, this book serves as both a warning and a call to action. It draws stark historical parallels between authoritarian regimes and the current political landscape, from the cruel dismantling of government institutions to the reckless acceleration of climate catastrophe.

The Emperor’s New Clothes answers your most important questions:

• How did 13 billionaires end up in the Trump Cabinet, and why are literally hundreds more—and their multinational corporations—lining up behind Trump?
• Which of Donald Trump’s “Day 1” promises did he actually keep, and why does he no longer talk about his MAGA supporters who got him elected?
• What are Trump’s 100+ judicial, military, Social Security, free speech, economic, and lack-of-representation abuses of American citizens to date, and how do they compare with those suffered by the colonists in 1776?
• What is Trump’s endgame as he masses troops inside the U.S. border, invokes the Insurrection Act, promises “You’ll never have to vote again,” manipulates nations and corporations to bend the knee to his tariff assault, suppresses free speech on campuses and in Washington law firms, plans his military birthday parade, and contemplates martial law?
• What will happen to the hundreds of thousands of government workers now jobless?
• How can birthright citizenship, guaranteed by the Constitution, be taken away?
• What are Trump’s plans for deporting U.S. citizens convicted of crimes like “disturbing the peace” to prisons in other countries?
• What’s happening to environmental protections since Trump took office, and can the environment protect itself?
• How has Trump likely ended the last hopes of surviving the 900 gigatons of carbon in Earth’s atmosphere, carbon that will remain for hundreds to thousands of years?
• How will U.S. taxpayers survive without public schools, Medicaid/Medicare, international allies, freedom of the press, free speech (especially on university campuses), FEMA disaster relief, and science from the CDC, WHO, NOAA, and NASA?
• Why are experts predicting that Trump—like Putin and so many other dictators and autocrats—won’t leave office in four years?
• How can we take care of our families’ emotional health under Trump-induced trauma?
• Is there any hope for fighting back with so much against the average American?
• How can each of us make a difference now, and what are the keys to fighting back? (Hint: protesting isn’t the biggest part of it.)

Read The Emperor’s New Clothes & The Climate Clock before the clock runs out!