Landslide: A Look at the Last Days of Donald Trump's Presidency

O. Lytvyn: And it’s really difficult to write a review that doesn’t hurt Trump’s followers feelings and which they wouldn’t report as offensive, so let it just be said: the book is based on real sources and accounts and it adds up quite substantially to the 44 presidency narrative. Just read it.

United States on Nov 12, 2023

B. Dalton: If you think some of our recent politians are bad read this and be thankful you don't live in America

United Kingdom on Nov 09, 2023

luisarturosaenz: Sorprendido por lo bien escrito que está el libro y la serie de datos y perspectiva que da sobre los últimos días de Trump como presidente de los Estados Unidos de America.

Mexico on Aug 01, 2022

stephan: This is the final book of the trilogy by Michael Wolff on the failed Trump presidency. While the 2020 presidential election and everything that followed (especially the January 6th insurrection) were well covered by the media, this book is still a good read as it details and shows that all Trump aides and Republicans with some influence were all weak and cowards because they did not have the courage to advise Trump appropriately and stop all the lies and conspiracy on the election steal. The Republicans had a perfect opportunity to move away from Trump after the insurrection by voting Trump guilty at his second impeachment. If they would have done so, Trump would have faded away. Instead, Trumpism remains alive and an existential threat to US democracy. By embracing Trumpism, every tenet to democracy, such as the judicial system and voting rights, are under a real threat of turning the US into an autocratic state in a not too distant future unless Trump is charged soon by the authorities investigating Trump for the many potential crimes he has committed throughout his life. This will however need conviction and courage from the courts.

Canada on May 16, 2022

Ethan Cooper: What’s it like to work directly with Donald Trump? Well, in the excellent “Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency” Michael Wolff provides a persuasive answer, as he makes such points as:

o “How can you be so stupid? Answer me!”… Everyone in the room had seen this story before. In a way, it was a Trump set piece, a venting that seemed not to exhaust him but to create more fuel as it went on. Everyone endured… appreciating the lesson… that the president always needed someone else to blame; that nothing bad happened to him that was not directly caused by the failure or active malice of someone else. (page 14)

o An impatient Fabrizio [Trump’s pollster] was trying to talk him through it. But Trump was resisting, a combination of his not wanting to hear what he was being told, not being able to understand what he was being told, and not being interested enough to want to understand it. (22)

o Trump had a problem with numbers, or perhaps an alternative view of them. Where numbers were, for most people, the thing most fixed, for him they were surprisingly, even magically elastic… Numbers were what you needed them to add up to....

United States on Sep 22, 2021

S. Smedley: So, we come to Michael Wolff's final book of the Trump Presidency. An utter debacle of an Administration from literally Day One to the end. Wolff's books are unapologetically gossipy and funny. A counterweight to some of the drier books about the subject (Bob Woodward for instance.). Both types of book are important however. In this tome the answer to the question "Did Trump REALLY think he won the election?" is answered. An unequivocal yes. After being abandoned by anyone with any sense in the final weeks of his Presidency he is left with a group of advisers and hangers on even more deluded than he is. In fact by the end Trump comes across as the sensible one at times, so untethered from reality are some of them. Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell are particularly guilty of feeding Trump their insane conspiracy theories. The utterly misguided belief until the very end that Mike Pence may still overturn the election, is almost laugh out loud funny. And Trumps attempts to assemble a team of lawyers to fight his second impeachment IS laugh out loud funny. But what is not funny is the wholesale attempt to over ride Democracy and the Rule of Law. If Trump had a VP more pliable than Pence...

United Kingdom on Sep 21, 2021

Renee Lucas Stiffler: I wasn't impressed with this book and it was highly anticipated so I couldn't wait to jump right in. Rather than be the page turner I had hoped for, it has taken me since the book dropped to read it in its entirety. I believe it's been 2 months. It never felt like a "landslide" to read, more of a lava flow that seemed to take forever without offering any new Trump information than what I'd read about him daily when he was #45. As an avid reader I was hoping to finish it in days but the fact that it took me more or less two months to finish makes me realize it was just an idle way to pass time rather than the page turner I had hoped for. There was no flow, no juicy tidbits that made me want to reread what I just read out of disbelief. I'm only in disbelief it took me so long to finish. Disappointing read.

United States on Aug 21, 2021

Peter R: Michael Wolffs book on the chaotic last days of the Trump presidency is one of three prominent ones that dropped around the same time in July of 2021. The other two are lengthy and detailed accounts of the disastrous final year of Trump done by fairly mainstream veteran journalists and cover everything from the corona virus response to the George Floyd demonstrations to the election and its tragic yet sometimes comical aftermath. This is basically straight forward reporting. Wolff on the other hand has a different style: Get to the nitty-gritty of the dysfunction in the Trump administration in more of a Hollywood gossip columnist way rather than just strait forward reporting. And since Trump never got out of "The Apprentice" mode and conducted himself and his administration in reality show style why not cover him in a book in the same way ?

Don't get me wrong - this is not a trashy or poorly written book. Wolff is a very good writer and he fashioned his narrative into a can't put it down page-turner. It is said that real life is stranger than fiction and Wolffs book bears this out. You literally cannot make this stuff up. Wolff makes good his unusually open access to...

United States on Aug 01, 2021

Basil: Interesting to read lots of juicy bits of gossip about the final Trump campaign. However, many of them had been revealed in the pre-publication publicity, so the impact was reduced. I was still glued to the page for most of the book, but curiously I could not wade through the verbatim quotes of Trump speaking. His stream-of-consciousness verbiage is interesting - for the first minute or so, but then becomes really boring. It makes me wonder why his adoring fanbase can listen to his rambling monologues that last hours. Then at the end of the book, I realised that the author had to befriend Trump in order to get material for his book. So did the authors of the other 2 Trump books coming out now. It dawned on me that these authors have a weird symbiotic relationship with Trump. They lambast him for his terrible actions, but they are making money off it. They could have gone in harder on Trump. I'd like to have seen interviews, not just with Trump insiders, but with Trump victims, e.g. intimidated election officials and Capitol Hil police officers, to show the real harm Trump and Trumpism and why it needs to be decisively defeated.

United Kingdom on Jul 22, 2021