follows, the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. it was their final, most essential command. here now is novelist and orwell biographer, d.j. taylor. the author of "orwell: the life." d.j., welcome. >> very nice to be here, brooke. >> when you heard the comments made by this president yesterday, you tell me what crossed your mind. >> well, i immediately thought, because this has been going on for some time now for a couple years, i thought this is the latest installment, the latest chapter in the trump orwell story. because as you remember, as soon as he was inaugurated in january of last year, sales of 1984 rose so exponentially that the publishers could keep pace with demand. they went up by several thousand percent because people thought that a new autocratic style of world government had emerged with trump at the forefront. and so my immediate thought was