2022-10-15
33 分钟This is in conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shemitah Basu.
Today, two longtime politics reporters on why their book about the Trump presidency is both a history and a warning.
There have been so many books written about Donald Trump and his time in the Oval Office.
Members of his administration have written tell all accounts.
Historians have done quick turnaround books and reporters have come out with deeper investigations.
But there's one book that stands out from the rest in its effort to exhaustively catalog what happened during the Trump presidency.
It's called the Trump in the White House 2017-2021.
It's by journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glaser.
Peter is the chief White House correspondent for the New York Times, and Susan is a staff writer for the New Yorker.
The two are also married.
Peter and Susan reported this book over the course of 18 months after Trump left office, they spoke with Trump himself and conducted over 300 other interviews.
The account here and there are many damning stories comes from, by and large, Republicans, officials who worked willingly for Donald Trump.
Those have always been the source of some of the most startling and alarming stories about Trump's conduct in the presidency and in the Oval Office.
What they piece together in this 700 something page book is the story of a president who was impulsive, uncurious, and, and intentionally divisive.
And they say given the fact that so many leaders in the Republican Party are still organizing themselves around Trump, this should all serve as a warning for what's to come.
But I started by asking Peter and Susan to talk about what they learned from Trump's inner circle, about how truly unprepared he was for the job of commander in chief.
It's important to remember he's the first president in American history who never served a single day in public office with the military.
Not a single day.
So he had never confronted these issues in a real way.