Fear: Trump in the White House
by Bob Woodward · first published 2018
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With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence. Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting
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Bob Woodward's book Fear: Trump in the White House made it pretty clear that Trump (in his first term) either did not understand how trade works between countries or did not care. At the time he was singularly focused on "trade deficits," especially the…
on “Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff burden” ↗Excerpt from Fear: Trump in the White House > "Why don't we manufacture things at home?" Lindsey asked. "We're a manufacturing country." > Of course the United States manufactured things, but reality did not match the vision in Trump's mind.…
on “Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we have?” ↗