Helpful Score: 2
After reading, it still baffles me as to how such and inept person could have and still has such influence on this Country.
Trump has absolutely no qualifications to have held the office of President. Why people still support him is another mystery to me.
Trump has absolutely no qualifications to have held the office of President. Why people still support him is another mystery to me.
This is Woodward's second book about Trump. I haven't read the first one yet or the most recent one. This was a pretty good read. Rather surprised that Trump gave Woodward so much access considering that Trump expected the book would not be a flattering portrait. The book also underscored how Trump would thrown anyone under the bus if he/she wasn't willing to kowtow to Trump's every whim. Tillerson, Mattis, and many others were his victims.
I don't know that the book provided much that was new since a lot of the info was already public knowledge--Trump firing staff via tweets, badmouthing staff through tweets, etc.
I don't know that the book provided much that was new since a lot of the info was already public knowledge--Trump firing staff via tweets, badmouthing staff through tweets, etc.
Bob Woodward's new book, Rage, is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest.
Woodward, the #1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trump's head pops up when he is told in January 2020 that the pandemic could reach the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans.
In 17 on-the-record interviews with Woodward over seven volatile monthsâan utterly vivid window into Trump's mindâthe president provides a self-portrait that is part denial and part combative interchange mixed with surprising moments of doubt as he glimpses the perils in the presidency and what he calls the âdynamite behind every door.â
At key decision points, Rage shows how Trump's responses to the crises of 2020 were rooted in the instincts, habits and style he developed during his first three years as president.
Revisiting the earliest days of the Trump presidency, Rage reveals how Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats struggled to keep the country safe as the president dismantled any semblance of collegial national security decision making.
Rage draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand witnesses as well as participants' notes, emails, diaries, calendars and confidential documents.
Woodward obtained 25 never-seen personal letters exchanged between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who describes the bond between the two leaders as out of a âfantasy film.â
Trump insists to Woodward he will triumph over Covid-19 and the economic calamity. âDon't worry about it, Bob. Okay?â Trump told the author in July. âDon't worry about it. We'll get to do another book. You'll find I was right.â
Woodward, the #1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trump's head pops up when he is told in January 2020 that the pandemic could reach the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans.
In 17 on-the-record interviews with Woodward over seven volatile monthsâan utterly vivid window into Trump's mindâthe president provides a self-portrait that is part denial and part combative interchange mixed with surprising moments of doubt as he glimpses the perils in the presidency and what he calls the âdynamite behind every door.â
At key decision points, Rage shows how Trump's responses to the crises of 2020 were rooted in the instincts, habits and style he developed during his first three years as president.
Revisiting the earliest days of the Trump presidency, Rage reveals how Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats struggled to keep the country safe as the president dismantled any semblance of collegial national security decision making.
Rage draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand witnesses as well as participants' notes, emails, diaries, calendars and confidential documents.
Woodward obtained 25 never-seen personal letters exchanged between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who describes the bond between the two leaders as out of a âfantasy film.â
Trump insists to Woodward he will triumph over Covid-19 and the economic calamity. âDon't worry about it, Bob. Okay?â Trump told the author in July. âDon't worry about it. We'll get to do another book. You'll find I was right.â
I read this shortly after receiving it, and forgot to write a review at that time. Therefore, I don't remember details as much as I'd like.
Woodward interviewed Trump many times for this book, and he presents many of those conversations verbatim. It gives us insight into how Trump was thinking and how he saw himself. Trump is not given to introspection. I suspect, though, that somewhere inside he knows he is a fuckup. That knowledge is buried deep under layers of self-talk about how great he is, so it's unlikely he is conscious of those deep inner thoughts.
I found it interesting, highly readable, and revealing.
Woodward interviewed Trump many times for this book, and he presents many of those conversations verbatim. It gives us insight into how Trump was thinking and how he saw himself. Trump is not given to introspection. I suspect, though, that somewhere inside he knows he is a fuckup. That knowledge is buried deep under layers of self-talk about how great he is, so it's unlikely he is conscious of those deep inner thoughts.
I found it interesting, highly readable, and revealing.
