Bob Woodward is a renound reporter who has interviewed presidents and other politicians for generations and so I trust his work. That was the only reason I picked up this book. It wasn't because I want to relive all the crazy stories of the Trump presidency. He reveals that Trump wasn't qualified when he ran for president and he didn't do anything to improve his qualifications. The number of times people would ask him why he had a certain view and he'd answer, "I just do" despite all evidence pointing in the exact opposite direction. People around him did dances of secrecy and trickery to swipe papers off his desk that he wanted to sign. He'd forget about it for a while like a child playing peek-a-boo. Staff openly talked about how to protect the country from him. I was kind of hoping to get some insight into why people voted for him and continue to support him. The only thing I can come up with after reading this book is that they believed his lies that he said again and again despite all evidence to the contrary. It's astounding. This presidency will not spawn inter-generational respect. It will provide for some very entertaining history class lessons in the future. Kids will shake their heads and wonder what the hell was wrong with their parents and grandparents.
Goodreads says:
With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence.Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president’s first years in office.
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