Rage by Bob Woodward.

3/5 rating. 392 pages.

Book #26 of 2021. Read March 23, 2021.

After doing everything I could to voice my discontent of the last president, I decided now that the worst has past, I would read Bob’s account of the last few years at the White House with this man at the helm as a history lesson (he’s received far too much media coverage, both positive and negative, so I’m not naming him here). If you want an absolute honest, as charitable as possible, and incredibly researched view about 2016-2020 in the White House, you probably are not going to get a better one.

This book can really be summed up in two quotes, that are understated as only a reporter like Bob can be:

“When his performance as president is taken in its entirety, I can only reach one conclusion: [____] is the wrong man for the job.”

“But now, I’ve come to the conclusion that the ‘dynamite behind the door’ was in plain sight. It was [_____] himself. The oversized personality. The failure to organize. The lack of discipline. The lack of trust in others he had picked, in experts. The undermining or the attempted undermining of so many American institutions. The failure to be a calming, healing voice. The unwillingness to acknowledge error. The failure to do his homework. To extend the olive branch. To listen carefully to others. To craft a plan.”

I just hope that in the future we don’t let celebrity and media coverage sway the votes for the most powerful person in the world. We all must be better, and demand better.

More Quotes:

“I could find no support for Trump’s claim, repeated several times in public remarks, that the Obama administration left behind ‘obsolete’ or ‘broken’ tests. Obama’s National Security Council had left behind a 69-page document titled ‘Playbool for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents’ that included instructions for dealing with novel influenza viruses which ‘would produce an estimate of between 700,000 and 1.4 billion fatalities from a pandemic of a virulent influenza virus strain.’ The document recommended officials in the early stages of such a pandemic check the nation’s diagnostic testing capacity and the amount of personal protective equipment available for health care workers.”

“His attention span is like a minus number. His sole purpose is to get reelected.” – Fauci about Trump

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