![]() ![]() “I know that everybody was trying to stop him from doing this. “It’s another example of him being out of control,” Wolff says. It only inspired them to rush the book forward, after the Guardian first reported its contents. On the eve of publication, Wolff and his publishers were facing a legal effort by Trump to block publication. ![]() Trump was soon back to business-as-usual, referring to Haiti, El Salvador and most of Africa as “ shithole countries”, setting off a new round of widespread denunciation. Negotiation requires detailed understanding. He ran on the idea of ‘I’m a negotiator’ but they all say he’s never negotiated anything. “I’ve talked to a number of Donald Trump friends and cronies. He wants a win and the nature of the win doesn’t really matter. He just wants somebody else to do his work. “It fits another premise of the book,” Wolff said. I do know he is at times bordering on incoherent I don’t know if the president is clinically off his rocker. The meeting was strange for several reasons, including Trump’s eagerness to agree with everybody there. “This was clearly to establish himself as sane in reaction to the book,” Wolff said. This week, Trump called a bipartisan, on-camera discussion on immigration and border security. I do know, from what I saw and what I heard from people around him, that Donald Trump is deeply unpredictable, irrational, at times bordering on incoherent, self-obsessed in a disconcerting way, and displays all those kinds of traits that anyone would reasonably say, ‘What’s going on here, is something wrong?’” “I don’t know if the president is clinically off his rocker. Is the president incapable of carrying out his duties? Michael Wolff, author of Fire and Fury, at his home in New York City. He’s so anomalous, so not what he’s supposed to be, that everything he does is at some level preposterous.” “It’s all explosive because that’s the thing about Donald Trump. “Almost all of the stuff that has been focused on seems kind of random to me,” Wolff said. Among them, the immolation of Bannon’s relationship with Trump and his Breitbart paymasters, and Trump’s bizarre efforts to demonstrate mental competence that, as reported by Wolff, his aides and inner circle routinely and openly called into question. The book’s immediate effects have been well-described elsewhere. ![]() “I’ve often thought this is a possible thing that happened,” Wolff said.Įither way, it is the creation story of a book that demolished any illusions about Donald Trump’s improbable White House. As the storm generated by Wolff’s Fire and Fury has swept over Trump, Bannon and the White House, Wolff has wondered if Ailes vouched for him that night in January 2017, perhaps over the baba au rhum dessert, even as the torch of populist Republicanism was passed from one man to the other. ![]()
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