Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

[acri1]

Man, I feel like I'm the only person on here that's not too interested in this book.

We already know that trump is incompetent, a clown, and generally a horrible person (along with Bannon and most other people in his circle) and he proves it daily, so I'm not sure how much new I'd overall be learning. And I'm sure his supporters will scream "FAKE NEWS" as usual so I doubt it'll convince anybody who doesn't already think so that Trump is an idiot and shouldn't be office. But still, I guess I'll check it out at some point.

 

[Shogun]

More immediately for Ivanka, who was focused on concerns about women in the Trump White House, Powell was an image correction to Kellyanne Conway, whom, quite apart from their war with Bannon, Ivanka and Jared disdained. Conway, who continued to hold the president’s favor and to be his preferred defender on the cable news shows, had publicly declared herself the face of the administration—and for Ivanka and Jared, this was a horrifying face. The president’s worst impulses seem to run through Conway without benefit of a filter. She compounded Trump’s anger, impulsiveness, and miscues. Whereas a presidential adviser was supposed to buffer and interpret his gut calls, Conway expressed them, doubled down on them, made opera out of them. She took Trump’s demand for loyalty too literally. In Ivanka and Jared’s view, Conway was a cussed, antagonistic, self-dramatizing cable head, and Powell, they hoped, would be a deliberate, circumspect, adult guest on the Sunday morning shows.

 

[Hood Critic]

I'm reading the digital version like most of everyone else, I'm hoping the physical copy doesn't have the errors.

 

[Serious]

Man, I feel like I'm the only person on here that's not too interested in this book.

We already know that trump is incompetent, a clown, and generally a horrible person (along with Bannon and most other people in his circle) and he proves it daily, so I'm not sure how much new I'd overall be learning. And I'm sure his supporters will scream "FAKE NEWS" as usual so I doubt it'll convince anybody who doesn't already think so that Trump is an idiot and shouldn't be office. But still, I guess I'll check it out at some point.

breh I thought the same, then I turned on the audiobook and this shyt is pure piff

it's as crazy and fukked up behind the scenes as we think it is

 

[Serious]

I'm reading the digital version like most of everyone else, I'm hoping the physical copy doesn't have the errors.

audiobook in the background while playing 2k is

 

[DonKnock]

sharing is caring breh

I used the free trial on Audible to get it.

You get 1 book free to test it out, just have to make an account

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Yo, I still can't get over the fact that they were either comfortable saying all this stuff in front of the author, or didn't realize who he was or what he would be able to write.

So it's either massively stupid and/or incompetent from a security POV.

All you really have to do to be in Trumps good graces is flatter the guy, it seems.

He truly only cares about his own ego. For all his fanboys that call him an alpha and what not, he sure does have the thinnest skin and most insecurity of anyone I've ever heard of.

at Melania actually crying when she realized he was going to win.

Also at him being horrified when he realized he was going to win because he didn't want to...and then shortly thereafter being like "I'm gonna be an awesome president"

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I must have missed this when it was first reported

What's funny is you can legitimately picture him saying it.

What George W. Bush Really Thought of Donald Trump’s Inauguration

@ 1:20

 

[wickedsm]

Man, I feel like I'm the only person on here that's not too interested in this book.

We already know that trump is incompetent, a clown, and generally a horrible person (along with Bannon and most other people in his circle) and he proves it daily, so I'm not sure how much new I'd overall be learning. And I'm sure his supporters will scream "FAKE NEWS" as usual so I doubt it'll convince anybody who doesn't already think so that Trump is an idiot and shouldn't be office. But still, I guess I'll check it out at some point.

somebody posted the link yesterday/
i got a few pages in but couldnt keep going
[and i loooove reading]
writing was just annoying to me
and honestly i read too much about that sick fukk
and the sick fukks around him on a day to day basis any way
no need for me to stress myself

any good blurbs i will read here or elsewhere on line.

i probably will buy one just to have to show the grands one day

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

They literally Googled how to craft an Executive Order .

HL could literally run the WH better than the current administration.

they should have googled "how do i not fukk up everything" instead.

And, you know what's sad and telling, in a way, about the country, and maybe praiseful of some of us in here, I can really only have the most in depth conversations in HERE, about this book, because we all know how much of this is 100% facts, because we followed every day, every story, every leak, every article, every Politco piece or Times story, so we know. Most people, they remember a headline, or the Mooch, or Bannon getting fired, very few see the whole scope of the disaster, day by day, piece by piece.

Yea my biggest take away so far is how on point the good posters of HL have been throughout this whole ordeal. Really had our collective finger on the pulse of this, in particular the Bannon/Alt-Reich threat like you mentioned.



Listening to this (I got audiobook version) has felt more like reminiscing something I lived through than revealing deep secrets I had been un-privy to

i wholeheartedly agree.

at Melania actually crying when she realized he was going to win.

Also at him being horrified when he realized he was going to win because he didn't want to...and then shortly thereafter being like "I'm gonna be an awesome president"

 

[FLASH]

Enjoy

 

[Shogun]

The Trump administration, as a consequence of the Russia story, was involved in a high-stakes bureaucratic push-pull, with the president going outside government to find out what was happening in his own government. The source, a longtime friend with his own DOJ sources—many of the president’s rich and powerful friends had their own reasons to keep close tabs on what was happening at the Justice Department—fed the president a bleak picture of a Justice Department and an FBI run amok in its efforts to get him. “Treason” was a word that was being used, the president was told.

“The DOJ,” the president’s source told him, “was filled with women who hated him.” It was an army of lawyers and investigators taking instructions from the former administration. “They want to make Watergate look like Pissgate,” the president was told. This comparison confused Trump; he thought his friend was making a reference to the Steele dossier and its tale of the golden showers.

 

[Shogun]

At Mar-a-Lago on the evening of March 3, the president watched Bret Baier interview Paul Ryan on Fox. Baier asked the Speaker about a report on the online news site Circa—owned by Sinclair, the conservative broadcast group—involving allegations that Trump Tower had been surveilled during the campaign.

On March 4, Trump’s early morning tweets began:

Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism! (4:35 a.m.)

Is it legal for a sitting President to be “wire tapping” a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW! (4:49 a.m.)

How low has President Obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy! (5:02 a.m.)

At 6:40 he called Priebus, waking him up. “Did you see my tweet?” he asked. “We’ve caught them red-handed!” Then the president held his phone so Priebus could hear the playback of the Baier show.

He had no interest in precision, or even any ability to be precise. This was pure public exclamation, a window into pain and frustration.
...
Sean Spicer, for one, kept repeating his daily, if not hourly, mantra: “You can’t make this shyt up.”

 

[The G.O.D II]

Book is interesting but you can tell it’s rushed and poorly written

 

[Shogun]

Book is interesting but you can tell it’s rushed and poorly written

Definitely. If Trump wasn't Trump he could easily laugh this book off and make the author look foolish.