You will no doubt bring to this book your own prejudices and views of the Trump presidency. For my part, as a Brit viewing things from a non-partisan distance, I find the Trump Presidency like a grizzly slow motion car crash - I am horrified but unable to draw my eyes away from the carnage and debris of scattered bloodied bodies spread across the carriageway while unable to act. I find the breathtaking hipocrisy, apparent detachment from reality, demand for praise and total lack of decorum or diplomacy utterly beyond belief.
This high profile and controversial book lifts the lid on what is the most disorganised, inept and incompetent presidency in US history. Period. The author had a privileged inside view of the mechanics and personalities of the Trump Whitehouse. His observations are both hilarious (in that they largely confirm and add weight to what so many believed already) and scary in that this man who is considered stupid, uneducated, and possibly unhinged by many of those who work around and with him feel that he is utterly unfit for this high office. Whatever else you think of this book it is certainly VERY entertaining. It shows a vainglorious man who has had everything handed to him on a plate and who only wanted the kudos of winning, and not the actual responsibility of the job, thrashing about wildly from one crisis of his own making to another, utterly incompetent and out of his depth. And despite smears against the author by Trump supporters it has an air of authenticity and rings true with what we already know about this vain, lazy, hypocritical narcissist who likes to alienate his allies, knows words, all the best words (but often seems unintelligible), who didn't realise there were so many countries and who promised he would not have time for golfing, despite having spent almost a third of his first year holidaying or at his own [golfing resort] properties and charging the state for his own protection duty and golf cart rentals at monumental cost. Kerching!
Here are the tanturms, the views and opinions of colleagues, the inability or refusals to listen to the considered or expert advice of others, observations on family - none of which give a flattering view of Trump, his administration or his children. In places it is laugh out funny. Except this petulant child has access to nuclear weapons and no impulse control. And seemingly no checks and balances.
Frankly anyone who still supports this presidency after reading this book needs professional help. To those 33% of US voters still supporting him what more does it take? Does he have to start stamping babies, or worse, puppies to death on 5th Avenue?
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