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Did You Read The Books About Trump

Did You Read the Trump Books?

  • Fire and Fury By Michael Wolff

    Votes: 3 25.0%

  • Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House By Cliff Sims

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • Fear: Trump in the White House By Bob Woodward

    Votes: 9 75.0%

  • A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership By James Comey

    Votes: 2 16.7%

  • Let Me Finish By Chris Christie

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Everything Trump Touches Dies By Rick Wilson

    Votes: 5 41.7%

  • Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House By Omarosa Manigault Newman

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy By Jeanine Pirro

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Trump: The Art of the Deal By Tony Schwartz

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • What Happened By Hillary Clinton

    Votes: 1 8.3%
  • Total voters
    12
NeverTrump said:
I haven't read it, but I'm sure there's stuff about Trump in it :mrgreen:
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First, TY for your answer....

As goes the answer itself:
??? -- Seriously? That response is tantamount to saying a text about US history has sections that pertain to things England did, thus it's apropos to call the text a "book about England."

I mean, really, Dude. I expected you to respond with something sensible and understandable, something an adult would say. Perhaps something akin to: "Well, it's really not a "Trump book," but I included it anyway merely because I wanted to get a sense of how many the poll's respondents have read it."

To such a reply, I'd respond with something to the effect of "okay" or "understood," because there's really nothing else to say to such a reply. It makes sense; the choice to do so is "normal;" such a response is mature and doesn't strain any form of credulity. But you replied with a line that "grabs at straws" as might a 12-year-old, and followed that puerile reply with a "****-eating grin" emoticon.

As Amber says, "I was like, 'what?'"
 
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I read "A Higher Loyalty" by James Comey. I understand why he reopened the investigation on Hillary, which is what probably cost her the election. He was doing his job.
 
~ Did not read any on the list .- I think he should write one himself - 'We Get The Government We Deserve' .
 
Why would I waste time/money on such books when I can read a much shorter version of the hatred for Trump on the Internet for free? The ONLY books I ever spend money on are those containing educational material that I can put to use improving my skills.
 
danarhea said:
I read "A Higher Loyalty" by James Comey. I understand why he reopened the investigation on Hillary, which is what probably cost her the election. He was doing his job.
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He reopened it to cover his own tail for having sat on the Weiner laptop for 30 days without telling anyone. When he realized the truth about that would likely come out sooner or later he had to speak up to preemptively clear his own corruption in the coverup. Hillary hated him for that but she was stupid. Comey saved her hide by exonerating her without even reading the 300,000 emails he said did not contain any classified information.
 
Not one.

Firstly two-thirds are salacious half-true gossip (and if it's even half true that's bad enough BTW) by the kind of self-serving thieves and conmen Trump has surrounded himself with. They can't be trusted much in any case.

Secondly just watching his madness, incompetence and bigotry unravel in real time tells me enough about the colossal pr1ck that I hardly need a 'tell all' book to fill in the gaps.

I'll wait for the Mueller report and the rest, I can see for myself. It doesn't look pretty.
 
NeverTrump said:
  1. Fire and Fury Michael Wolff
  2. Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House By Cliff Sims
  3. Fear: Trump in the White House By Bob Woodward
  4. A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership By James Comey
  5. Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics By Chris Christie
  6. Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever By Rick Wilson
  7. Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House By Omarosa Manigault Newman
  8. Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy By Jeanine Pirro
  9. Trump: The Art of the Deal By Tony Schwartz
  10. What Happened By Hillary Clinton

Numbers 1-2 are probably the books Trump hate the most and are the most accurate.
Numbers 3-5 are probably accurate descriptions without a glorified agenda
Numbers 6-8 are partisan opinions
Numbers 9-10 are just for fun and can help or hurt Trump depending on the context used.

So now that there are at least 10 insider books about the WH, have you read any of them and do you agree with my breakdown? I haven't read all of them probably only two.
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I used to love to read political books but not over the last several years. Just like the partisan gridlock gripping America, any book that has come out in the last decade is nothing but one sided biased partisan babble that can't be trusted to be true. It's all about making a buck on sensationalist stories, even if you have to sensationalize them in order to sell more. Fake books, and that includes before Trump, not just during Trump.
 
NeverTrump said:
  1. Fire and Fury Michael Wolff
  2. Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House By Cliff Sims
  3. Fear: Trump in the White House By Bob Woodward
  4. A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership By James Comey
  5. Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics By Chris Christie
  6. Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever By Rick Wilson
  7. Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House By Omarosa Manigault Newman
  8. Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy By Jeanine Pirro
  9. Trump: The Art of the Deal By Tony Schwartz
  10. What Happened By Hillary Clinton

Numbers 1-2 are probably the books Trump hate the most and are the most accurate.
Numbers 3-5 are probably accurate descriptions without a glorified agenda
Numbers 6-8 are partisan opinions
Numbers 9-10 are just for fun and can help or hurt Trump depending on the context used.

So now that there are at least 10 insider books about the WH, have you read any of them and do you agree with my breakdown? I haven't read all of them probably only two.
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The new Christie book sounds like a mess. Based on every interview he has given it sounds like a combination "I love Donald Trump" and "Jared Kushner is Satan" book.

I read Comey's book and enjoyed it. I didn't read most of the others. I think I do want to read Sims' book.
 
There is no way I would read a book about that gasbag. If I wanted to read a horror story, I can always turn to Stephen King.
 
Read not a single one. I see enough of president peaches on television to form my own opinions.
 
Bob Woodward's book 'Fear' was quite illuminating.

Who better at recognizing corruption and dysfunction in the White House than Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein?

Perhaps only John Dean, who views Trump no differently than Woodward.
 
People with class do not write such books.

Those "authors" simply want their 15 minutes of fame. (One of them is trading on the fame he earned during Watergate.)

It would be beneath my dignity to contribute to the royalties earned by those "authors."

In the few bookstores that still exist, those books will soon be on the tables reserved for remaindered books.
 
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TheParser said:
In the few bookstores that still exist, those books will soon be on the tables reserved for remaindered books.
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Don't know where you live, but libraries are still packed with traditional books and e-books.
 
noonereal said:
and not a one shows the president to be competent in action although Christie argues Trump is competent, just screwing up.
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....when you get 10 people saying much the same thing and NO books that tell us anything different*, what logical conclusions are safe to draw?

How about this: Trump is a train-wreck of human being, a train-wreck of a President and we all best pray to God that the guardrails of the American Constitution, its government and its leaders are strong enough to keep America itself from going off the rails and plunging into the valley below?

* - if anyone knows of a book authored by an insider that paints a positive picture of the Trump Presidency, kindly speak up.

https://www.businessinsider.com/books-about-trump-white-house-2018-9
 
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noonereal said:
and not a one shows the president to be competent in action although Christie argues Trump is competent, just screwing up.
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Coming from a guy who closed down all the beaches and THEN took his family TO that same beach, not surprising.
 
Idiometer said:
Agreed. You might enjoy "The Plot to Destroy Democracy" by Malcolm Nance. He could use a better editor, but he does know his subject.
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I read "Fear" and "Everything Trump Touches Dies" and have a copy of the Nance book but haven't gotten to it yet.

For the record, I also read "Art of the Deal" and "Think Big" which are books written FOR Trump.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Bob Woodward's book 'Fear' was quite illuminating.

Who better at recognizing corruption and dysfunction in the White House than Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein?

Perhaps only John Dean, who views Trump no differently than Woodward.
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Reminder: Bob Woodward was the CONSERVATIVE half of Woodward and Bernstein, so to all who believe Woodward's book was an overly political attack, please bear in mind that a guy like Woodward would want a Republican president to be successful, even Donald Trump...if there was even a scintilla of a chance.

So, that is why I chose his book to read first out of them all. I did not want confirmation bias to rule the day as I read it.
 
upsideguy said:
....when you get 10 people saying much the same thing and NO books that tell us anything different*, what logical conclusions are safe to draw?

How about this: Trump is a train-wreck of human being, a train-wreck of a President and we all best pray to God that the guardrails of the American Constitution, its government and its leaders are strong enough to keep America itself from going off the rails and plunging into the valley below?
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Said guardrails have been rotting at the roots for a long time. I wouldn't count on them.
 
NeverTrump said:
  1. Fire and Fury Michael Wolff
  2. Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House By Cliff Sims
  3. Fear: Trump in the White House By Bob Woodward
  4. A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership By James Comey
  5. Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics By Chris Christie
  6. Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever By Rick Wilson
  7. Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House By Omarosa Manigault Newman
  8. Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy By Jeanine Pirro
  9. Trump: The Art of the Deal By Tony Schwartz
  10. What Happened By Hillary Clinton

Numbers 1-2 are probably the books Trump hate the most and are the most accurate.
Numbers 3-5 are probably accurate descriptions without a glorified agenda
Numbers 6-8 are partisan opinions
Numbers 9-10 are just for fun and can help or hurt Trump depending on the context used.

So now that there are at least 10 insider books about the WH, have you read any of them and do you agree with my breakdown? I haven't read all of them probably only two.
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Leaves out the most amazing take down of all, really well researched, into Trump's Russian mob ties.

https://www.amazon.com/House-Trump-Putin-Untold-Russian/dp/152474350X
 
I read "Fear" by Bob Woodward. Except for Kushner's close relationship with MSB, I really didn't learn anything new from the book.
 
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