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The Trump White House; Changing the Rules of the Game [2018]
by Ronald Kessler
The unvarnished and unbiased inside story of President Donald Trump and his White House by New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler
Based on exclusive interviews with the president and his staff, The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game tells the real story of what Donald Trump is like, who influences him, how he makes decisions, what he says about the people around him, and how he operates when the television lights go off, while portraying the inside story of the successes that have already brought solid results as well as the stumbles that have turned off even longtime supporters and undercut his agenda.
The Trump White House reveals:
Trump aides Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner have been responsible for Trumps most disastrous decisions. Trump is aware that his daughter and son-in-law are problems and has hinted to them that they should go back to New York. Seeing Jared on TV, Trump said, Look at Jared, he looks like a little boy, like a child.
First Lady Melania Trump has a tremendous impact on policy and strategy. She sits in on meetings and is widely admired by aides for her judgment.
Kellyanne Conway is the No. 1 White House leaker.
Trumps Secret Service Director Randolph Tex Alles proposed withdrawing protection from some Trump family members and aides to save money. Horrified White House staffers shot down the idea.
Trump has told friends that billionaires are constantly asking him to fix them up with longtime Communications Director Hope Hicks, a former model, but he says he refuses.
Trump calls certain reporters directly, feeding them stories attributed to a senior White House official, creating the impression that the White House leaks even more than it already does.
Never before has an American president had so much impact on the country and the world in so short a time as Donald Trump. Yet no president has stirred so much controversy, dominating media coverage and conversation both pro and con.
Months after Trump took office, consumer confidence hit a seventeen-year high, unemployment plummeted to the lowest level in seventeen years, and the stock market zoomed to repeated record highs.
At the same time, ISIS was nearly defeated, Arab countries banded together to stop financing terrorists and promoting radical Islamic ideology, and Trumps decision to send missiles into Syria because of its use of chemical weapons and his strident warnings to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made it clear to adversaries that they take on the United States at their peril.
Yet for all the media coverage, Trump remains a cipher. Ronald Kessler has known Trump and First Lady Melania Trump for two decades and understands him better than any other journalist. The book includes an exclusive interview with Trump, the only interview he says he has given or will give for a book as president. Crammed with media-grabbing revelations. The Trump White House is the unvarnished and unbiased inside story that answers the question: Who is Donald Trump?
This is a total fluff piece - it's just about the opposite of Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury."
oasis
(49,383 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,735 posts)kimbutgar
(21,147 posts)In the discount section.
mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)this actually corresponds with a lot of Wolff's book.
Trump's late night phone calls to his "friend's in the media
trump wanting jared and Ivanka out of the WH, but too chicken to say so
Jared and Ivanka leaking to the press about Bannon and others
Jared being behind Comey's firing after they pushed Bannon out (who was against firing Comey because then a special prosecutor would be named)
Billionaires getting special access to trump
What was not in Wolff's book is the part on Malaria impacting policy and sitting in on meeting policy. But that fits. And that folks is why she won't ever leave him #Complicit
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)... I guess that's why he got more facetime with the First Family.
Michael Wolff kind of blended in with the furniture, and people forgot he was there.
Vinca
(50,271 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,034 posts)"Months after Trump took office, consumer confidence hit a seventeen-year high, unemployment plummeted to the lowest level in seventeen years, and the stock market zoomed to repeated record highs." Unemployment was at its lowest point in 16 years just prior to PINO usurping the office. So, that's just a continuation of the same trend. Same with the stock market, with the Dow going up 19.2 and 20.6% in the 2 years prior to the usurpation. Now that it has fallen, the trend line is identical to the prior 3 years. And consumer confidence was increasing for 5 full years prior. Five full years!
At the same time, ISIS was nearly defeated, Arab countries banded together to stop financing terrorists and promoting radical Islamic ideology, and Trumps decision to send missiles into Syria because of its use of chemical weapons and his strident warnings to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made it clear to adversaries that they take on the United States at their peril.
ISIS was never nearly defeated. They have been on the run for nearly a half decade. They lost the territory where the oil was and have lost significant funding and that happened before the idiot. And the other nonsense is empty sabre rattling and has accomplished nothing yet. Yeah, they're going to talk. For the hundredth time in 20 years, but nothing has actually changed