Fear Trump In the White House

I chose Bob Woodward's Fear Trump in the White House as my first quarter novel. The book falls under the biography genre, comprised of hundreds of hours of personal interviews with white house staffers, firsthand source and files and documents. It started off by giving us a clue as to how Donald Trump won the presidency in the first place. Woodward credited Steve Bannon, who was the Executive chairman of the Trump campaign, for Trump's rise to the office because he saw something in the American people that many candidates simply ignore, the discontent of the establishment. Those who are left behind in an economy that has shifted its reliance on blue-collar workers to favor tech driven white workers. The shift had put many workers such as coal miner, steelworker, and factories assemblies and they were tired of politicians, from both parties, making empty promise to get their votes. Bannon saw this and he made it point to show Trump as an outsider businessman that will disrupt the establishment to fight for the common man. This strategy work and it what likely got Trump the White House. A victory short lived as trouble started to arise when Trump gets into the White House. It is clear that from the very beginning that Trump is and will always be a businessman. He is a profit-driven man and lacks consideration on policymaking with other countries. This was evident when dealt with the Chinese trade. Trump saw that imbalance that economic flow between the two countries and was determined to change that imposing tariffs even if many of his advisors were against it. Well, it backfired as he ended up hurting the people that he said he would help. Denial to the defeated he refused to acknowledge the failure of his policies and would fire those who went against him. It got to the point where many of his inner staff had to hide documents from him in fear that he would make a bad decision. As the title suggested, this book really shows you that it might be a good thing that the many of us don't pay attention to the news coming out of the White House, because it can invoke the fear out of anybody. To be entirely honest I picked this book because I didn't want to go to the library to search for a book I would've wanted to read this was my last choice. However, that being said I was surprised that how much I liked the book because it shows that Trump's White House is unlike any other. What could make this book even better, if Woodward would get Trump's take on all of this.