I read it very quickly and it was very boring.” Trump said he regretted that, but added: “He only writes bad books and I actually got to read it last night. Woodward did not speak to Trump for his first book on the administration, Fear, which was released in 2018. Rage has caused huge controversy, not least over Trump telling Woodward he knew the danger the coronavirus presented early on but played it down in public.Īsked “why on earth would the president of United States, sit down and talk to Bob Woodward something like 18 times on tape” – the two men also spoke in August, a conversation which did not make the book – Trump said: “Well, because I assumed he was a little bit fair.” Nonetheless, the president claimed to have read Woodward’s new book in one evening in an interview with Fox & Friends on Tuesday morning, saying “it’s like lightweight reading and he doesn’t get it”. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-literate.” The president “didn’t process information in any conventional sense”, Wolff writes. In Michael Wolff’s infamous book Fire and Fury, for example, the former economic adviser Gary Cohn is quoted as writing: “It’s worse than you can imagine … Trump won’t read anything – not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers, nothing.”
Multiple reports have said Trump does not often read, whether books or briefing materials.
The Watergate reporter’s tome, published on Tuesday, is 392 pages long not including index, acknowledgments and notes on sources which chiefly consist of 18 on-the-record conversations with the president.
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