Trump Will Resign, Says 'Art Of The Deal' Ghostwriter Tony Schwartz

The ghostwriter of President Donald Trump’s 1987 memoir “Trump: The Art of the Deal” claimed that the real estate mogul — only six months into his presidency — would soon resign. Tony Schwartz wrote on Twitter Wednesday that “Trump is going to resign and declare victory” before Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Congress “leave him no choice.”

Schwartz, a journalist and the CEO of The Energy Project, criticized the president in a string of tweets that claimed the “circle is closing at blinding speed.” He predicted that Trump’s tenure at the White House would be cut short amid an ongoing investigation into Trump associates who allegedly colluded with Russia to influence the electoral process during the 2016 presidential election.

“Trump is going to resign and declare victory before Mueller and congress leave him no choice,” he wrote Wednesday afternoon. “Trump's presidency is effectively over. Would be amazed if he survives till end of the year. More likely resigns by fall, if not sooner.”

Just a few hours earlier, Schwartz had taken to Twitter to criticize the president’s leadership and his pattern of publicly castigating those who fail to meet his expectations.

“Think of Trump as a toddler w/ reactive attachment disorder, and therefore in a permanent virulent tantrum. His development ended at age 7,” he said. “Remember that every time Trump criticizes and demeans someone he is projecting his deep sense of inadequacy & self-hatred onto others.”

Schwartz has been an outspoken critic of Trump both on Twitter — his account boasts 108,000 followers — as well as in interviews. During Trump’s presidential campaign, Schwartz revealed himself to be Trump’s ghostwriter after the then-Republican candidate declared that the United States needed “a leader that wrote ‘The Art of the Deal.’”

“Many thanks Donald Trump for suggesting I run for president, based on fact that I wrote The Art of the Deal,” Schwartz tweeted June 16, 2015. “No plan to accept a draft.”

Shwartz co-authored the book with Trump, after shadowing the future POTUS for about 18 months in the mid-1980s, according to PBS. He got a $250,000 advance and half the royalties for that effort. In an interview to PBS, Shwartz says he wrote the book and Trump "probably has gotten to the point where he thinks he did it."

Shwartz also talked about certain traits of Trump that are now in full public display as president of the United States. "I think one of the central under-recognized facts about Trump is how severely limited his attention span is," Shwartz had said. "It’s really, really hard for Trump to focus on much of anything for a sustained period of time, with the exception of talking about himself."

In a damning interview with the New Yorker that was widely cited, Schwartz told the magazine that he regretted having penned the memoir for the billionaire businessman.

“I put lipstick on a pig,” he told the magazine. “I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is.”

He added, “I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization.”

In May, after Trump fired the then-FBI Director James Comey, Schwartz wrote another essay for the Washington Post criticizing the president. In the article, he said Trump’s “sense of self-worth is forever at risk.” Schwartz also wrote Trump reacted “impulsively and defensively, constructing a self-justifying story that doesn’t depend on facts and always directs the blame to others” whenever he felt he was being treated unfairly.

Wednesday evening, Schwartz had another message for his followers that seemingly doubled down on his tweets from earlier in the day.

“Trump must be isolated,” he wrote. “Resistance every day. The end is near but must keep pressure high.”