Whether or not Donald Trump supporters like it, Bob Woodward is a well-respected investigative reporter, the author of 18 books, and has won two Pulitzer Prizes. His deals in fact and they have never been in dispute. Subsequently, his new book cannot be easily ignored. Fear: Trump in the White House tells the story of a president, who starts many of his days at 11AM, feasts on hot dogs and diet coke and more importantly lacks even a teenager’s view of world events.
Woodward does not take sides, he is an even handed observer, listening and reporting. He expresses no personal opinion on Trump or others. He just flat out reports. These days when there is so many one sided attacks by the news media Woodward’s style is refreshing.
For Trump everything boils down to money. He questions over and over why are we spending billions of dollars on military resources in South Korea and we get nothing in return. When his team attempts to explain the military, and financial, advantages, he still doesn’t get it. Finally, Defense Secretary James Mattis blurts out we are preventing World War III!
What makes Fear most enticing and believable is it is based not just on the recollections of a variety of eyewitnesses but is supported by transcripts of conversations and exact dates
Less reliable books like Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff who relied mostly on Steve Bannon as his main source, and Unhinged by former White House aide and fired Apprentice star Omarosa Manigault Newman, both of whom had axes to grind and present views that are most likely slanted. Woodward’s book is straightforward and provides a complex and frightening take at the inside workings of the Trump White House.
Fear: Trump in the White House is a riveting, page turning look at an ill-equipped, unpredictable, childish, cruel, compulsive liar with a short attention span who has no respect for anyone including his generals, staff and himself.
John Greco Author/Photographer 
I’m not an expert on these matters, by any means, but from what I know from life’s experience is that Donald Trump has a personality disorder. Weather he’s a psychopath, a narcissist, a malignant narcissist, bi-polar, I don’t know. I do not that he is a damaged individual who needs psychiatric intervention–and to get the hell out of the Presidency. This is on my list after I get through reading a fictional horror story, i.e., Stephen King’s The Outsiders, then I will embark on this true life horror story.
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He’s definitely a narcissist with a huge ego to match. He lacks decency and has no morals whatsoever. On a brighter note, speaking of Stephen King, I just finished reading his excellent short story, Riding the Bullet.
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