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Fire and Fury: A Damning Portrait of our Accidental President
“There was, in the space of little more than an hour.. a befuddled Trump morphing into a disbelieving Trump and then into a quite horrified Trump. But still to come was the final transformation: suddenly, Donald Trump became a man who believed that he deserved to be and was wholly capable of being the president of the United States.”
“Miss Minium, I’m going to need you to put that book down.”
Ever since I purchased Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, I’ve been hearing this a lot. It’s easy to get consumed in this drama of intrigue, suspicion, and chaos that casts a believable narrative to a larger-than-life year in politics. Fire and Fury is a guiding compass to understanding the presidency and election of Donald Trump. In this exposé, many of your suspicions are confirmed. The first suspicion confirmed is one we all held about the election of Donald Trump:
It was a horrible, chaotic accident.
Not only did Trump never actually believe he would be president, he had virtually no desire to be. The portrait of an infantile, self-absorbed man with no interest in politics is too believable to be a ruse. While we all secretly suspected a more ominous stratagem at play, it turns out the simpler, more horrifying explanation is the one that rings…
