Rage by
Bob Woodward is the source of outrageous statements of a new and different kind.
Started: 10/2/2020
Completed: 10/4/2020
Recommendation: Mild Recommendation
Recommended By: Everyone
Review:
This is good reporting. It ties together perspective on current events in near real time. It is unsettling to hear Trump talk about his own actions. It brings together, in my opinion, what it must be like to talk to Trump about direction. It seems that things go back and forth...that he generates a sense of how critical his own decision making in in retrospective. He is uncomfortable with sharing credit. He seems to have a set of internal talking points (things like his position in the poles, the state of the economy, etc.) He does say things at points that make sense--things that surprised me. In general, however, the surprise is that his opinion was so normal. For the most part, however, his opinions vary over time and seem to be whatever clicks as an internal "best bet." His bottom line is money. Always money. Everything comes back to money.
