the private but he doesn't take anything or anyone too seriously nor does he let things get him down but the america he's described for over a quarter of a century has changed quite a bit since twenty fourteen when the last bascom novel was published. what would best comes place be today's america and triumph america well that's a question i can't answer i can tell you what richard feels about all these things but what frank bascombe who cares because my best i'm just a made up creature you know he would think whatever i made him think and i might make him think something like what i think which is that trump is a disaster and not even funny and threat to the world but if i were going to write about what frank thought about him. i would probably write a more nuanced view of president trump just to make it interesting you know on