While researching I tripped over this review of Bob Woodward's book, 'Fear..' from The Guardian (9/18) & the way that this UK pub sees Trump is mortifying (& deserved). THIS is the impression that the World has of him..read this! OMG.
theguardian.com/books/2018/sep…
theguardian.com/books/2018/sep…
2/"..Yet in Woodward’s meticulous account of office intrigues, the president’s men don’t seem to be trembling with fright. What they mostly feel is contempt for Trump or pity for his ignorance and the “teenage logic” of his obsessively vented grievances. Hence their deft
3/"administrative coup d’état”: by purloining documents from Trump’s desk or slow-walking his intemperate orders, his aides have effectively benched him. That suits their indolent boss, who is free to watch television, eat hot dogs and swill down Diet Coke during what his
4/"diary-keepers euphemise as “executive time”. Periodically, he is wheeled out to sign bills he hasn’t read, with jagged penmanship that resembles an overexcited seismograph but “looks authoritative in black Magic Marker”. Told by his ideologues that he’s a populist, he mangles
5/"the word and says: “I love that. That’s what I am, a popularist.” Woodward’s book actually suggests that for Trump, power is not fear but obscenity. The discussions that Woodward’s sources have helped him to reconstruct are filthily cloacal or grossly sexual. Debates about
6/"policy are conducted in expletives. The nuclear deal with Iran, Trump declares, is “shitty”. Other problems are categorised as “bullshit” or “horseshit”, while arguments are “ripshit”. Trump, mocking the Obama administration for its genderless bathrooms, looks out at a world
7/"befouled by “shithole countries” whose inhabitants don’t look Norwegian. Unable to use a computer, he blusters against “cyber shit”."
**I thought that Woodward's book was excellent, & he has so much cred that whatever he wrote can be relied upon. Trump is just hideous!
**I thought that Woodward's book was excellent, & he has so much cred that whatever he wrote can be relied upon. Trump is just hideous!
8/ And then there's this: "In Mr Trump’s Wild Ride (All Points Books £22.99) Major Garrett observes that Trump’s legal dangers and legislative impotence mean that his supporters are left with only his “mania – the last, inexhaustible commodity”. Trump is effectively a nihilist,
9/"who now rants about possible impeachment to ratchet up the drama of his downfall. By contrast, Pence is a cold-blooded man of principle, or of what d’Antonio and Eisner call “evil principles”, fixated on the transformation of licentious, liberty-loving America into a
10/"theocratic police state. “Be afraid, be very afraid,” Omarosa whispered to a Big Brother confidant, anticipating Woodward’s refrain as she reflected on the menace of the deputy she called “the Stepford Veep”
**We have to get these fools OUT of the WH immediately!
**We have to get these fools OUT of the WH immediately!
11/And finally, the reviewers summary: "Ben Fountain accuses America of schizophrenia, as red and blue states or white and black races tug the union apart; I’d say that the country is embroiled as usual in a Manichean battle between Eden and Armageddon, puritanism and decadence,
12/"with Pence and God on one side and the seven deadly but delicious capitalistic sins embodied by Trump on the other. Better the devil we know than the holy hypocrite who’s next in line?" ~The Guardian September 2018 #TuesdayThoughts
