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Most of the world seems to have concluded that the lunatic chaos described in Fire and Fury, the "bombshell" new book about the Trump White House by Michael Wolff, foretells the end of civilization.
The book certainly doesn't seem like good news. Wolff tells us our president is probably a neurotic illiterate, incapable of focus beyond a few seconds, and thought of as a deranged simpleton by even his most trusted advisors.
The excerpt in New York Magazine describes an idiot who didn't expect to win and spends his evenings locked in the White House bedroom wolfing down cheeseburgers Trump reportedly has a Woody Allen-esque phobia about being poisoned and therefore loves the wholesome safety of premade McDonald's while watching news about himself and descending into fugue states of rage and self-pity.
Pretty much any hack novelist writing an imagined account of what Trump's daily routine is like could have penned that exact same scene. (I might have put the cheeseburger in one hand and a hyper-smudged mobile device, for counter-tweeting purposes, in the other.)
The eerie literary accuracy of such accounts is probably why journalists spent much of Thursday debating the provenance of Wolff's information. Was it all true? Exaggerated? Stuff whispered in confidence?
Others questioned the validity of the account on the basis that the representation of Trump was so horrifically moronic, it couldn't possibly be real.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-why-michael-wolffs-book-is-good-news-w515045?utm_source=rsnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=010518_16
BigmanPigman
(51,591 posts)I have this one that he wrote about the moron's insanity and what can realistically be DONE was very informative. "That Madness of Donald Trump".
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-madness-of-donald-trump-removal-25th-amendment-w504149
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,993 posts)Either way, after learning what a fucking pig he is, I'll never be able to read anything else he writes.
lapucelle
(18,258 posts)Maybe it's satire.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Exactly
Nobody would greenlight a script based on this indescribable horrorshow
Alex Trump
Guy being sued for combining the two in a show!
https://torrentfreak.com/donald-trump-parody-results-in-clockwork-orange-copyright-suit-161114/
mountain grammy
(26,621 posts)Like this: " As anyone who covered Trump in the 2016 race knows, the man's brain is an ooze of fast-disintegrating neurons. Moreover, he has a long and storied history of forgetting stuff he only just said, and people he only just met."
Totally unbelievable that he is president.
pnwmom
(108,978 posts)For all I know, he could be a Putin asset, after all his years there -- telling progressives not to worry, you'll be fine, DT's not that scary.
Oh, yeah? How about DT bragging about his big nuclear button?
No, DT isn't some dufus like George Bush or Ronald Reagan with Alzheimers. He's light years in true malice beyond anyone we've ever had before. There's not a word in here about all his hate-talk, about Charlottesville, about North Korea.
DT is evil and anyone who thinks he's just a clown is either ignorant or evil, too.