Donald Trump has a lot more to worry about in advance of the 2018 midterm elections than the logistics of campaigning for every Republican candidate that’s in trouble, as he recently promised he planned to do.
Legendary journalist Bob Woodward, one half of the duo that broke the Watergate scandal wide open during the Nixon administration, is currently working on a book about the inner workings of the Trump White House, and it’s scheduled to come out well before November. It is titled Fear: Inside the Trump White House and features a red-hued cover with a close-up of the President’s face.
That could put a serious damper on branding for Trump, who trades almost entirely on his name. But if Woodward’s book amplifies the recent sense among Americans that the current administration looks a lot like Nixon’s — if, in fact, the reporter who secured inside information from the notorious informant “Deep Throat” can make the name Trump synonymous with the same behavior as the case that made his career — Trump’s own political career could be over just two years after it began.
The Amazon listing for Woodward’s book lists his account as being based on “hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files, and documents.”
A previous book about the Trump White House, Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, led to a breakdown of the relationship between Trump and the man who was then his right-hand man, Steve Bannon, after Bannon was quoted extensively with statements criticizing the President that he never bothered to deny.
No doubt the Woodward book will receive the same sort of “warm welcome” that Trump gave to Wolff’s account, rather than the genuine joy Trump felt about his former Press Secretary when his own Trump administration memoir referred to the President as a “rock star.”
We do doubt, however, that Woodward will even do any book signings, let alone be accused at one of calling a former classmate a racial slur, like Spicer recently was.
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