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Animal allegory in the tradition of Animal Farm by George Orwell. The story reflects American political culture before and during the presidency of Donald Trump. The new leader of the lake nation of Swanville, simply called the Trumpeter, promises an ambitious agenda. He will dismantle the Swan Care Act of his predecessor, President Lulu. He will drain the Swamp where the left-wing oligarchy eat the very best protein and vegetation. He will increase shoreline habitat by bringing down the beaver wall on the North River. And he will ban migratory birds from Swanville because they are looters and moochers and not part of the Great Swan’s plan. Eventually, the new president becomes cob-in-chief of a nation at war with its neighbors and itself. TrumpeterVille is political satire that wags a cautionary tale. Dean Gessie was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He enjoyed a long career as Head of the English Department at Pickering College in Newmarket, Ontario. While there, he was also Director of the award-winning Joshua Weinzweig Creative Writing Program. Gessie won Honorable Mention in the Press 53 Novella Competition. Also, one of his short stories was selected to the list of Highly Commended Stories in the international Manchester Fiction Prize. Most recently, Gessie published Guantanamo Redux, dystopian fiction about the near future in America and the byzantine complications of survival in an authoritarian state. Gessie has also written and served extensively as a social justice activist.