Donald Trump's fictional death on the Trump Tower escalator in 2035 triggers riots, conspiracy theories and a right‑wing uprising in a new novel by American author and journalist Kurt Andersen, who outlined his 'dark prediction' for the president's end on The Daily Beast's podcast.
In The Breakup, due out on 18 August, Trump dies of what Andersen describes as a 'massive brain stroke' while celebrating his 89th birthday, an imagined moment that sends a fractured United States lurching into open chaos.