Reading some quotes from the book, damn:
John Dowd once told Trump, according to Woodward: "Don't testify. It's either that or an orange jumpsuit." Quite a statement from the president's then-attorney.
“I’m not going to sit there and let him look like an idiot. And you publish that transcript, because everything leaks in Washington, and the guys overseas are going to say, ‘I told you he was an idiot. I told you he was a goddamn dumbbell. What are we dealing with this idiot for?’ ”
President Trump has called AG Jeff Sessions mentally retarded, a dumb Southerner and a lousy attorney.
After Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad launched a chemical attack on civilians in April 2017, Trump called Mattis and said he wanted to assassinate the dictator. ‘Let’s fucking kill him! Let’s go in. Let’s kill the fucking lot of them,’ Trump said, according to Woodward.”
General John Kelly said Trump was “an idiot,” and it was “pointless to try to convince him of anything.” “He’s gone off the rails. We’re in Crazytown. I don’t even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had.”
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis: Trump had the understanding of "a fifth- or sixth-grader."
In an effort to curb the president’s “most dangerous impulses,” Trump’s former chief economic adviser Gary Cohn swiped multiple official documents from the president’s desk so he wouldn’t sign them, according to Woodward.
“You’re a goddamn staffer!” former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon reportedly screamed at her, insisting she report to the chief of staff like all other aides. “You walk around this place and act like you’re in charge, and you’re not. You’re on staff!”
Her response, according to Woodward: “I’m not a staffer! I’ll never be a staffer. I’m the first daughter.”
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Trump has been quiet so far on Twitter today, nothing after all these excerpts started coming out. Just the usual fake news tweet and something about Gordon storm, posted before all this.
Gotta be weird walking around and knowing everybody looks at him like an idiot. Everybody recording him. Everybody that's left saying the same thing.