The Divider
Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
(Sprache: Englisch)
"The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale, told by revered journalists Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker--an ambitious and lasting...
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"The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale, told by revered journalists Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker--an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency that also contains dozens of exclusive scoops and stories from behind the scenes in the White House, from the absurd to the deadly serious"--
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CHAPTER 1Ready, Set, Tweet
On the afternoon of January 20, 2017, just hours after taking the oath of office, Donald John Trump strode into the Oval Office for the first time as the forty-fifth president of the United States. In that profound moment of transition, he was not moved to comment about the history of the room or the burden he had just assumed. He did not ruminate out loud about the weighty decisions that had been made there nor his ambitions for the next four years.
Instead, the first thing that struck him as he looked around the storied space once occupied by Roosevelt and Kennedy and Reagan was the fantastic illumination.
How do they get the lighting to do that? he wondered.
Then he invited his daughter Ivanka Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to take pictures with him.
Trump, America s first reality television star turned president, had long fixated on lighting. Wherever he expected to be photographed, he evaluated the angles and shadows and brightness of the sun or artificial bulbs that would frame the shot. As he entered the White House, he did not know much about government or health care policy or foreign affairs. But he knew a lot about lighting.
Trump preferred not to allow artificial illumination when cameras were on him. The harsh light changed the ever-shifting color of his hair and highlighted the caked-on makeup that gave his skin an orange tint. He hated artificial lighting so much that news photographers were reproached for using a flash in his presence. Trump s preference for natural lighting would soon lead him to hold many of his encounters with reporters outside on the White House s South Lawn on the way to his helicopter. Never mind that the roar of the rotor blades made it hard to hear what he was saying it was the visual that counted. He studied iPad images of himself before television interviews to check the best angle, preferring to be shot from his right side so the part in his hair did not show. And
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if he did not like a picture on the front page of the newspaper, he sometimes called the photographer to complain. That made me look horrible, he would grouse.
All presidents are image conscious. But Trump was something different, the first president for whom the shaping of reality to fit his demands became the preoccupation of his presidency. He would spend exhaustive amounts of time each morning combing and twisting the long strands of his awkwardly colored hair into place, a three-step process that required a flop up of the hair from the back of his head, followed by the flip of the resulting overhang on his face back on his pate, and then the flap of his combover on the right side, as his lawyer Michael Cohen once explained. Trump cemented it with TRESemmé TRES TWO hair spray (extra hold). An aide carried a travel-size can everywhere they went. When the wind was strong, Trump wore one of the red Make America Great Again baseball caps that had become a signature of his improbable candidacy. When his hair was not done, it fell over the right side of his head below the shoulder, making him look like a balding Allman Brother or strung out old 60s hippie, as Cohen put it. Trump cut it himself with giant scissors, like the kind used at shopping mall ribbon cuttings.
Trump was also sensitive about his weight. He did not like being photographed from below, fearing that would make him look heavier than the 236 pounds he claimed to weigh. Hope Hicks, his communications adviser, had issued an edict during the campaign barring news cameras from the buffer zone in front of the stage beneath Trump; only after vociferous complaints did she finally allow photographers there for just a few minutes. For that matter, Trump did not like being shot from above either. The angle had to be on the same plane as he was, because he felt it looked better o
All presidents are image conscious. But Trump was something different, the first president for whom the shaping of reality to fit his demands became the preoccupation of his presidency. He would spend exhaustive amounts of time each morning combing and twisting the long strands of his awkwardly colored hair into place, a three-step process that required a flop up of the hair from the back of his head, followed by the flip of the resulting overhang on his face back on his pate, and then the flap of his combover on the right side, as his lawyer Michael Cohen once explained. Trump cemented it with TRESemmé TRES TWO hair spray (extra hold). An aide carried a travel-size can everywhere they went. When the wind was strong, Trump wore one of the red Make America Great Again baseball caps that had become a signature of his improbable candidacy. When his hair was not done, it fell over the right side of his head below the shoulder, making him look like a balding Allman Brother or strung out old 60s hippie, as Cohen put it. Trump cut it himself with giant scissors, like the kind used at shopping mall ribbon cuttings.
Trump was also sensitive about his weight. He did not like being photographed from below, fearing that would make him look heavier than the 236 pounds he claimed to weigh. Hope Hicks, his communications adviser, had issued an edict during the campaign barring news cameras from the buffer zone in front of the stage beneath Trump; only after vociferous complaints did she finally allow photographers there for just a few minutes. For that matter, Trump did not like being shot from above either. The angle had to be on the same plane as he was, because he felt it looked better o
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Autoren-Porträt von Peter Baker, Susan Glasser
Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Peter Baker , Susan Glasser
- 2022, 752 Seiten, 16 farbige Abbildungen, Maße: 16 x 24 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Doubleday
- ISBN-10: 038554653X
- ISBN-13: 9780385546539
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.11.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"There are so many books about Donald Trump and his presidency that they could fill Mar-a-Lago and then spill out onto the lawn, but if you are going to read just one of them (and you should), please pick up The Divider"Air Mail
"Well-paced and engagingly written...the most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency yet published."
The Washington Post
"[A] detail-rich history of the Trump administration...Comprehensively researched and briskly told...Squeezing the tumultuous events of the long national fever dream that was the Donald Trump presidency between two covers...would tax the skills of the nimblest journalist. Yet the husband-and-wife team of Baker and Glasser pull it off with assurance."
The New York Times Book Review
"The book everyone is talking about"
Politico
"As a sumptuous feast of astonishing tales, it may hold wonderments indeed for those first contemplating the enormity of the Trump phenomenon...But even a reader steeped in years of Trump coverage and well-versed in the precedent literature may be surprised at how compelling this narrative proves to be. The more one reads, the more one wishes to read."
NPR.com
"A beautifully written, utterly dispiriting history of the man who attacked democracy."
The Guardian
"A sweeping, dishy, 700-plus-page history of Trump s almost cartoonishly chaotic White House"
Axios
"Elegant"
The New York Review of Books
"A comprehensive and scathing chronicle of the Trump administration...The result is the most encyclopedic account of the Trump presidency yet published."
Publishers Weekly *Starred Review*
"...The Divider is the definitive account of Trump s White House years...The story continues, but Baker and Glasser give readers an indispensable starting point."
Booklist *Starred Review*
"An insightful account of a chaotic
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president by two of the best journalists writing on Washington today."
Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Twilight of Democracy
"Finally, the synthesis we need about the Trump presidency. Adding their own reporting and interpretive skills to the record not to mention fine writing Peter Baker and Susan Glasser s The Divider is a book worth everyone s serious attention."
Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Chasing History and co-author of All the President's Men
Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Twilight of Democracy
"Finally, the synthesis we need about the Trump presidency. Adding their own reporting and interpretive skills to the record not to mention fine writing Peter Baker and Susan Glasser s The Divider is a book worth everyone s serious attention."
Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Chasing History and co-author of All the President's Men
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