![]() ![]() Beginning the book, I worried that, like a bad movie trailer, these juicy tidbits would be the only parts of the book worth reading. Of course, with the popularity of this book, a lot of details have been thrown around this week from Trump eating McDonald’s in bed to Ivanka’s presidential goals to the President’s lack of literacy. And he’s constantly ranting like the person on the J train you’d switch cars to avoid. More pro-wrestler than president or even, person, Trump is the leader of a carnival of conniving yet equally moronic caricatures or as Wolff describes, “ a daily Trump cluster-fuck.” It’s bad when Bannon comes off as the person in the White House with some of the most sense. Trump comes across as a buffoon that is as ridiculous as he is terrifying. These conflicts, and that looseness with the truth, if not with reality itself, are an elemental thread of the book.” As Charles Ludlam writes in Ridiculous Theatre: Scourge of Human Folly, “We molded truth into a joke.”īut, at the end of the day, even if Fire and Fury is half true, it’s still an incredible tale–a mix of melodrama, existential horror and farce. Wolff, in his introduction, is all too aware of this, writing: “Many accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue. Wolff also failed to provide an account of Goldstone’s glorious Facebook page and love of hats, which is a more egregious mistake in my opinion.Īnd it’s this questionable handle on the truth that perfectly mirrors the Trump administration’s dissolution of truth itself. There are also minor factual errors such as referring to the shockingly sleazy British publicist and Trump Tower Russian meeting member Rob Goldstone as American. Admittedly, Fire and Fury is riddled with typos as if the publishers, in their race to publish this gossipy tome, forgot to copy edit. Naturally, the Republicans have already assembled talking points to try to discredit the book. With the books flying off the shelves, including 100 copies sold in an hour at The Strand, the President, in addition to being a “ratings machine,” seems to have made America read again–a delicious bit of irony considering one of the gems of the insider account is that Trump never reads. Like many, I spent all yesterday immersed, jaw-dropped and eyes-popped, in a digital copy of Fire and Fury. “You can’t make this shit up,” repeats the hapless former press secretary and White House Easter bunny Sean Spicer, as his “daily, if not hourly mantra.” This apt line, more articulate than anything Spicer said behind the podium in his months of White House employment, is quoted by Michael Wolff in his new book/American cultural phenomenon Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House. ![]()
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