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canetoad

(21,233 posts)
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 04:04 AM 3 hrs ago

This is one of the best books ever written about Donald Trump

Trump 2.0 promises a trove of hard-hitting accounts of Donald Trump’s second term as president of the United States. For Trump 1.0 – which ended with his 2020 electoral defeat to Joe Biden – extraordinary books by the best American journalists flooded bookstores in the US and around the world. These included The Divider: Trump in the White House by The New York Times’ journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, and Peril by The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and CBS’ Robert Costa. Woodward also authored two solo accounts, Rage and Fear: Trump in the White House, while Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, also from the Post, contributed A Very Stable Genius.

These volumes provided shock-and-awe accounts of a presidential term of chaos and tumult, especially Trump’s wars with his staff and generals, as well as the events that led to his two impeachments for abuse of power. America’s democracy is still haunted by Trump’s impeachment for summoning his fiercest supporters to storm the Capitol to try to overturn the 2020 election.

Maggie Haberman has been covering Trump for more than two decades. Jonathan Swan, a native son of Australia, was a journalist with The Sydney Morning Herald before he set out for Washington with Axios and now The New York Times. Swan won an Emmy for his video interview with Trump, where he fact-checked Trump’s words and actions in real time.

Regime Change is the first of what will be a second wave of chronicling Trump’s return to power. Trump has evolved in this second term. Trump’s greatest asset is power. He covets attaining, and revels in wielding, absolute power.

https://www.theage.com.au/culture/books/this-is-one-of-the-best-books-ever-written-about-donald-trump-20260627-p60akf.html

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This is one of the best books ever written about Donald Trump (Original Post) canetoad 3 hrs ago OP
I'd like to say Skittles 1 hr ago #1
Sometimes wonder canetoad 1 hr ago #2
Lucky Loser perdita9 1 hr ago #3
"We see Trump loving the giants of big tech grovelling before him..." Their willingness to grovel to highplainsdem 1 min ago #4

Skittles

(173,663 posts)
1. I'd like to say
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 05:41 AM
1 hr ago

while I drop prolific F-bombs on DU, I very much dislike its usage on the job.....very unprofessional, I never did that

perdita9

(1,371 posts)
3. Lucky Loser
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 05:54 AM
1 hr ago

This a great account of Trump before becoming president and how he was constantly enabled by his parents, society, and the media.

When one of Donnies casinos is in trouble, Fred Trump comes in, buys hundred of thousands in chips, pockets them and leaves. Everything is on camera but NJ lets Trump off with a fine. They should have shut him down.

He took credit for other people's real estate projects and the reporters never bothered to fact check him.

He ran scams constantly.

Trump is a monster created by people who would not hold him accountable.

highplainsdem

(63,745 posts)
4. "We see Trump loving the giants of big tech grovelling before him..." Their willingness to grovel to
Mon Jun 29, 2026, 07:20 AM
1 min ago

someone as incompetent and malign as Trump is one of the reasons people should be wary of becoming dependent on generative AI.

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