That Trump talks to Sean Hannity several times a day, is willing to make policy decisions based on criticism from Hannity and Ann Coulter, and that he is outraged when Fox News says anything negative about him, all have implications for the state of our democracy and the free press. Staff run office pools about when and how Trump will go down, they avoid meetings because they don't want to be subpoenaed to testify later, and all the while, they plot their exit.Īnd while I don't personally enjoy reading these kinds details (I find them kind of depressing) I don't think we should bury our heads in the sand either because we are so worn down from this circus-like reality show. Everyone in his orbit is there to gain money or power, because Trump holds something over them, or simply because no one else will hire them. After two years in office, and really a lifetime of surrounding himself with codependent sycophants and fellow grifters that he will turn on at a moment's notice when it suits him, Trump has no real friends or allies.
In many cases, the point is not so much whether what was said was true, but the fact that it was said at all. But for worse or worser, these items are now a part of the historical record because we the American people made the mistake of giving this man the nuclear codes. It's easy to dismiss a lot of the tidbits in this book, such as that Trump wishes he hadn't given Don Trump Junior his name, that he didn't want to visit his own recently born grandchild in the hospital, or that he makes fun of anyone with a mustache and his own dad, Fred Trump, who routinely belittled and humiliated him, just happened to have a mustache.
A behind the scenes look at Trump's bizarre and increasingly unhinged second year in the White House.
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