Dishy trump WH gossip, from NYT best selling book writers.

[empedocles]

" . . . The dishy gossip and mocking nicknames the Trumpies coin for one another (Kushner is the “Slim Reaper,” Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen “Nurse Ratched”) make for amusing reading; they also highlight a dysfunctionality rare for even the Washington freak show. Every chapter, it seems, has a sentence like this: “While Priebus, Bannon and Kushner disliked each other, the one thing they agreed on was they all loathed [Kellyanne] Conway.” Or: “In public, Mattis, Tillerson and McMaster were portrayed as fellow members of the Axis of Adults. In private, there was pettiness that at times suggested a middle school cafeteria. . . ”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/books/review/the-divider-trump-peter-baker-susan-glasser.html

[halfulglas]

1. Not surprised at all.