![]() ![]() Most aggressively nasty, by the author’s account, is former assistant Steve Bannon, who describes Trump as “a simple machine” with a binary of flattery and calumny, while he declares that “I am the leader of the national-populist movement” and suggests that Trumpism can do fine without its namesake-who, he adds, will not be around for a second term. ![]() The results are damning, those competing fiefdoms not just jealous of their turf, but also vicious in their characterizations of the other side. Given the many competing fiefdoms in the West Wing, Wolff adds, no one wholly endorsed his access (“the president himself encouraged this idea,” he says), but no one quite said no, either. He replies, “They’re people just like me, only they’re poor.” There’s a certain Snopes-comes-to-the-big-city feel to celebrity journalist Wolff’s ( Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age, 2015, etc.) tawdry portrait of the current occupants of the White House, which, writes the author, is based on conversations with the president and his senior staff and backed by hundreds of hours of recordings. “What is this ‘white trash’?” asks a fashion model of Donald Trump. ![]() Headline-grabbing fly-on-the-wall view of the dysfunctional playroom that is the Trump White House. ![]()
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