LANDSLIDE:THE FINAL DAYS OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY

Was Donald John Trump responsible for the January 6 mayhem which shamed the United States globally? The answer: Yes and No. Trump, whose presidency ended in disgrace but who is still in virtual control of the Republican Party, did not organize the protests by thousands of his crazy fans who believed that their leader had been illegally forced out of the White House. Yes, he did call for the January 6 gathering and he did parrot to the crowds his favourite theme: He won the presidential battle by a landslide but votes stuffed illegally into ballot boxes had handed over the country’s baton to Joe Biden. A reading of Michael Wolff’s book – a good successor to his “Fire and Fury”, which contributed to a questioning of Trump’s competence and mental standing – makes one wonder if Trump could have behaved in any other way after defeat. Wolff says that Trump absolutely believes he has been forced out of office by an election coup that involves almost all aspects of modern society and its coordinated power centres organized against him. His proposition is that he is the Republican Party. It has no future without him. Rather than being scarred by his defeat, he has weaponized it. That’s why Trump might run again in 2024.-- M.R. Narayan Swamy

A must-read for all to know the real Trump.

Sorprendido por lo bien escrito que está el libro y la serie de datos y perspectiva que da sobre los últimos días de Trump como presidente de los Estados Unidos de America.

Michael Wolff’s book “Landslide” is a tour de force revealing and detailing life inside the WH with President Trump. It appears that, because of the huge success of his prior book “Fire and Fury,” the various aides, assistants, lawyers and handlers who were around Trump were finally able, and motivated, to tell their side of the craziness and chaos which was their daily life while they managed to stay there. And it’s a scary picture, to say the least.The book describes in quotes and vivid scenes a president who was not really interested in doing the work necessary or required to steer the government. There was often no one in charge; there were meetings with no agenda or purpose, other than to listen to the president wax about whatever was on his mind, not often actual business; and the main objective, every day, was to give the president what he wanted to hear, slanted in the way he wanted it, irrespective of facts or truth. And so often, he just bashed and insulted people, often persons in his very presence, or on TV, or wherever, he just emoted insults and berating and neglected the country’s business.It is telling that not until late the night of January 6, 2021, did Trump realize that the insurrection on capitol hill that day was not such a good thing for him.Much of the book recounts Trump’s complaints about his lawyers and others who did not serve him well, or who were incompetent or did not get the results he wanted. That all major law firms would not go near him is not part of his awareness. The author even got an interview with Trump, which constitutes the last chapter in the book. Wolff gives it to us verbatim, and Trump is so enveloped in election fraud, without having any facts, figures or sense of reality—it is staggering how deeply buried he is in this proven lie, that the election was stolen.Be prepared for Wolff’s writing style, in which every sentence must necessarily have multiple commas, semi-colons, parentheses, dashes and run on sentences. But the detail, the inside views, the constant movement of scene and event, and the absurdity of “the wrong man for the job” as Woodward concluded, make this must reading, and extremely interesting reading.

If you think some of our recent politians are bad read this and be thankful you don't live in America

The depths of Donald Trump -- devious, self-serving, emotionally fragile, delusional -- are well and truly plumbed in this book. My only complaints are that the writing is much too elliptical (convoluted) and the cast of characters is so immense.