I just finished Bod Woodward’s book “Rage” on my way home from work this afternoon. Wow. That’s all I can say. It seems pretty honest, and most of it was even written from actual recordings with Bob Woodward and Donald Trump either sitting down talking and answering Woodward’s questions, or from recordings of phone conversations (recorded with permission of course).

Woodward also talked to many other people for the book, including Dr. Fauci. Fauci says Trump’s attention span is a negative number. I got a good chuckle out of that one. The book ends 105 days before the upcoming election.

One more key excerpt: In the Epilogue to the book, Bob Woodward lists Trump’s issues:

1. Oversized personality
2. Failure to organize
3. Lack of discipline
4. The lack of trust in others he had picked – in experts
5. The undermining or attempted undermining of so many American institutions
6. The failure to be a calming, healing voice
7. The unwillingness to acknowledge error
8. The failure to do his homework
9. The failure to extend the olive branch
10. The failure to listen carefully to others
11. The failure to craft a plan
12. Mattis, Tillerson, and Coates are all conservatives or apolitical people who wanted to help him and the country – imperfect men who answered the call to public service. They were not the Deep State. Yet each departed with cruel words from their leader. They concluded that Trump was an unstable threat to their country. Think about that for a moment. The top national security leaders thought the President of the United States was a danger to the country.
13. He said the intelligence people needed to go back to school
14. He said the generals were stupid
15. He said the media was fake news

He sums it up by saying that in the Trump Presidency, almost anything can happen. Anything. It could get a lot better, or worse, or much worse. It is unlikely a lot could get much better.

The upcoming election, and the inevitable pandemonium that will undoubtedly ensue afterward, no matter who wins, is going to change the world. The only question is: In which direction? For better or for worse? For richer or for poorer? Wait, what? Either way, I’m not looking forward to this. What’s that line from Star Wars…? “I’ve got a baaad feeling about this.”