#Fire and Fury Inside the Trump White House

[chucktaylorupset]

"He had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald’s — nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely premade."

Wolff, M., & Smith, J. (2018, January 3). Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury’: Inside Trump’s White House. Intelligencer. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html

I have no comments on today's events except to say that i sincerely doubt it will have a measurable effect in november

[emunenen]

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

[bdpoliticslibrary]

Fire and Fury, Inside the Trump White House

Author: Wolff Michael Language: English ISBN: 978-0-349-14342-2

Status: Available Condition: New Price: HUF2,500 Contact: bibliothecadiscipulorum@gmail.com

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[mariesbookblog]

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff

George W. Bush, on the dais, supplied what seemed likely to become the historic footnote to the Trump address: “That’s some weird shit.” 

The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous—and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling author Michael Wolff tells the riveting story of how Trump launched a tenure as volatile and fiery as the man himself.

In this explosive book, Wolff provides a wealth of new details about the chaos in the Oval Office. Never before has a presidency so divided the American people. Brilliantly reported and astoundingly fresh, Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury shows us how and why Donald Trump has become the king of discord and disunion.

As my dad said, this book is like cat nip for Democrats. What can I say, he was right. 

I listened to this in about two days. It just grabs you in and you can’t stop. Kind of like the whole of 45′s presidency. I’m sure some of this is fake, but it makes for a great read. As someone who hates Trump, you just want it all to be true, and it’s kind of fits in so nicely with what you already believe. He’s incompetent, Bannon ran the show, etc, etc., Fire and Fury agrees with it all. But some of it is probably, likely false. Either way, it was entertaining, which is mostly why I got it. Entertainment value, not for deep dark secrets into 45′s White House, and that’s what I got. 

Cat nip for Democrats.

Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5 stars)

[maryadeson]

Aside from wanting to read some dirt, I generally wanted to get a better sense of Trump. Here’s what I learnt: 1. Trump entered the presidential race not wanting to win, it was simply intended to be a platform to build his media empire (allegedly). 2. Trump’s administration thinks his an idiot 3. He likes to eat cheese burgers and go to sleep with his three televisions, rather than in the company of Melanie Trump 4. Rupert Murdoch thinks Trump is a fucking idiot. 5. Trump is paranoid. This is the reason why he prefers to eat McDonald’s because he has long feared a poisoning plot. His rational is McDonald’s would not expect him to show up and so no one would know to prepare a special poison meal.  6. Trump thinks of himself as white trash - "“What is this ‘white trash’?” asked the model. “They’re people just like me,” said Trump, “only they’re poor.“ 7. Steven Bannon wrote the inaugural address, which on reflection makes sense. 8. John Bolton was not nominated for Secretary of State because of his moustache. 9. Ivanka Trump is entertaining the idea of being the first female president. 10. Bannon believes Trump’s son is guy of treason.

The big question is all the content factual.

I haven’t learnt anything of any great importance; I don’t feel I’ve satisfied my curiosity.

Rating: 2.5 stars

[npr]

'I'm Not A Hit Man,' Michael Wolff Tells NPR About His Controversial Trump Book

The book that created a rift between President Trump and his former campaign chief executive and adviser Steve Bannon hit the shelves Friday morning, ahead of the original Tuesday release date, despite the president's threat to block its publication.

Michael Wolff, author of Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House, told NPR's Kelly McEvers in an interview set to air on All Things Considered Friday afternoon that he "100 percent" stands behind his reporting, which the White House and some of the books' subjects have sharply criticized.

"I am not a hit man," Wolff said. "I'm someone who just found his way into this story of our time and just wanted to tell it as clearly as possible and with as much understanding as possible."

The pushback and legal threats from the White House may have made the book even more popular. Wolff's work went on sale at midnight in at least one Washington, D.C., bookstore and reportedly sold out in less than 20 minutes. It had already reached No. 1 on Amazon's best-seller list.

Wolff's book paints a portrait of a White House in disarray, with an incompetent President Trump at the center.

"I think the two fundamental issues were that Donald Trump doesn't read anything. Let me accent that — anything. Nothing," Wolff told NPR. "If you're working for the president of the United States, that's an odd position because how do you get information to him? That's already a major hurdle. But then there's the second hurdle — that not only does he not read, he doesn't listen. So it becomes from Day 1, the crisis of the presidency: You can't tell him anything."

An example Wolff pointed to was how Trump was obsessed on his first full day in office with disputing facts that his inauguration had been larger than former President Barack Obama's — which was inaccurate. However, Wolff said, "You couldn't say to him, 'That's not true. You shouldn't have said it from the beginning, but now we have to fix it.' He wouldn't read it and you couldn't tell him it because he won't listen to you. It is entirely his reality."

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[progressivefriends]

Now you know everything in that book is solid fact.

[deadpresidents]

His sons, Don Jr. and Eric -- behind their backs known to Trump insiders as Uday and Qusay, after the sons of Saddam Hussein...

For those who have been sending me messages asking about Michael Wolff’s new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (BOOK | KINDLE), there are a ton of great anecdotes and fascinating insights like this which make the book an easy recommendation despite my already intense Trump Fatigue.

[shinobicyrus]

So apparently a fake excerpt from Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House is going around describing our Illustrious Leader watching a ‘gorilla-channel’ that staffers rushed to set up for him on his bedroom TV. 

The phony excerpt was a joke, but it went viral. Right-wing newsites are harping about how gullible stupid anti-Trump liberals are and academics sigh at the supposed death of free-thought and lack of critical thinking, but I think both sides have lost the major point here:

The originator of the “screenshot,” cartoonist Ben Ward, tried to make it an obvious joke. The problem was, had it been literally any other president, it would have been.

The fact that millions of people can read a fake passage from a book detailing the President of the Goddamn United States bullying White House staff into creating a gorilla fight club channel for him to watch for hours at time isn’t a symptom of a society’s partisan echo chamber, it’s a horrifying sign that when looking at Trump’s behavior and personality, even an “obvious” parody is worringly plausible. 

[emunenen]

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

[contemplatingoutlander]

Trump is tearing this country apart. He may well get us involved in a nuclear war. It is time that the GOP stop playing to power and start doing what is right for the country.

[finnglas]