I see Bob Woodward's new book is making a lot of waves and it has sent Bozo BLOTUS into another Tweeting frenzy.
As everyone knows, when Bozo starts Tweeting like crazy it's because more of his laughable incompetence, lies or bad manners have been exposed again.
Of course, Bozo is claiming it's all lies and fake news again, but ask yourself this . . . why would Bob Woodward, arguably one of the most famous reporters in the world who along with Carl Bernstein uncovered the Watergate story and even had a film made of him (Robert Redford acted Woodward) and a man who over many years has built a reputation of reporting honestly with great integrity, why would this same man suddenly change his character, start making things up and destroy the credibility and reputation he's built up over so many years?
Also, it's not like any of Woodward's claims are hard to believe. Here are a few:
White House staff are exasperated by Trump's ignorance, erratic behaviour and penchant for lying, to the extent that they hide documents from him.
Chief of Staff John Kelly described Trump as an "idiot" and "unhinged". The full quote: "He's an idiot. It's pointless to try to convince him of anything. He's gone off the rails. We're in crazytown," Kelly is quoted as saying at a staff meeting in his office. "I don't even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I've ever had."
Trump failed a mock interview with Mueller so badly that his personal lawyer John Dowd told him: "There's no way you can get through these. ... Don't testify. It's either that or an orange jump suit.".
Trump's closest advisers described him erupting in rage and profanity, and he seemed to enjoy humiliating others: "This guy is mentally retarded," Trump said of Sessions. "He's this dumb southerner," Trump told Porter, mocking Sessions by feigning a southern accent or "Trump said that Priebus is "like a little rat. He just scurries around.""
Bozo's closest allies aren't spared either: "And Trump demeaned former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to his face, when Giuliani was the only campaign surrogate willing to defend then-candidate Trump on television after the "Access Hollywood" tape, a bombshell video where Trump described sexually assaulting women. "Rudy, you're a baby," Trump told the man who is now his attorney. "I've never seen a worse defense of me in my life. They took your diaper off right there. You're like a little baby that needed to be changed. When are you going to be a man?""
There are also insights into high level meetings and the way Bozo BLOTUS conducts himself in these meetings:
"On July 27, 2017, Trump's national security leaders convened a gathering at "The Tank" in the Pentagon. The goal: an intervention to try to educate the President on the importance of allies and diplomacy. Trump's philosophy on diplomacy was personal. "This is all about leader versus leader. Man versus man. Me versus Kim," he said of North Korea. His inner circle was worried about "The Big Problem," Woodward writes: Trump's lack of understanding that his crusade to impose tariffs could endanger global security.
But the meeting didn't go as planned. Trump went off on his generals. "You should be killing guys. You don't need a strategy to kill people," Trump said of Afghanistan. He questioned the wisdom of keeping US troops in South Korea.
"So Mr. President," Cohn said to Trump, "what would you need in the region to sleep well at night?"
"I wouldn't need a fucking thing," the President said. "And I'd sleep like a baby."
After Trump left the Tank, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared: "He's a fucking moron.""
Woodward also discusses Trump's disregard of national security concerns because of his obsession with money:
"In meeting after meeting, Trump questions why the US has to pay for such a large troop presence in South Korea.
"We're doing this in order to prevent World War III," Mattis, the defense secretary, bluntly explained to Trump at one January 2018 meeting, which prompted Mattis to tell close associates afterward that Trump had the understanding of a "fifth or sixth grader."
Twitter: "Trump's tweets — and his infatuation with Twitter — are a theme throughout the book.
Woodward reveals that Trump ordered printouts of his tweets and studied them to find out which ones were most popular. "The most effective tweets were often the most shocking," Woodward writes. Twitter was a source of great consternation for national security leaders, who feared — and warned Trump — "Twitter could get us into a war."
Appalled by some of his more outrageous posts, Trump's aides tried to form a Twitter "committee" to vet the President's tweets, but they failed to stop their boss.
Priebus, who was blindsided when Trump announced his firing on Twitter, referred to the presidential bedroom as "the devil's workshop" and called the early morning hours and Sunday night — a time of many news-breaking tweets — "the witching hour."
Trump, however, saw himself as a Twitter wordsmith. "It's a good thing," Trump said when Twitter expanded its character count to 280, "but it's a bit of a shame because I was the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.""
Yes, the fundamentally stupid oaf who can't spell simple 4 letter words and cannot string a coherent sentence together regards himself as the Ernest Hemingway of Twitter!
I'm not normally a big fan of reading non-fiction but I think this might be a book that I buy!