The White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that Trump gave access to Woodward because he was 'the most transparent president in history'. O'Brien, and the deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger. Trump urged members of his administration to provide interviews to Woodward for Rage, and participants included senior adviser Jared Kushner, his former chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, the national security adviser Robert C. Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House communications director, said that Woodward was the 'gold standard for fifty years of investigative journalism around the presidency', and that Trump was attracted to the New York Times the way 'a low-IQ small moth would be to a flame', and Trump is 'always convinced that if he talks to the person, he is going to elucidate and enlighten that person, and get them to like him'.

White House officials told Politico that Trump's respect for Woodward was rooted in his '1980s cultural mindset', which prioritized Time magazine covers and The New York Times, and made him respect Woodward as 'an institution' as a result of his work in exposing the Watergate scandal, which led to the resignation of Richard Nixon. Trump had told Woodward that he wished that he had been able to speak to him for the book's 2018 predecessor, Fear. And I see that happening here.' Background And after it's all over, they end up being my friends. I've had many occasions like this, where people have hated me more than any human being they've ever met. I also bring great unity out, ultimately. I don't know if that's an asset or a liability, but whatever it is, I do. Woodward contended that 'a lot of angst and rage and distress' was present in the Republican Party, to which Trump replied that 'I bring rage out.

Īs with Woodward's 2018 Fear: Trump in the White House, the title of the book is derived from a conversation that Woodward had with Trump in March 2016. The book is largely critical of Trump, focusing on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, his strained relationship with military brass and high-level officials such as Jim Mattis and Dan Coats, his handling of racial unrest, and his relationships with the leaders of Russia and North Korea. Rage is a book by the American journalist Bob Woodward about the presidency of Donald Trump, published on September 15, 2020, by Simon & Schuster.

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