The cousin, Alvin, goes to work for a Jewish real-estate developer whose description closely matches the Trump of 2016–2017 news reports.[11] Roth was interviewed in The New Yorker about similarities between his novel and the election of Trump. Roth responded, "It is easier to comprehend the election of an imaginary President like Charles Lindbergh than an actual President like Donald Trump. Lindbergh, despite his Nazi sympathies and racist proclivities, was a great aviation hero ...