Summary of Confidence Man by Maggie Haberman: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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Maggie Haberman's new book, Confidence Man, is being called "a magnificent and disturbing reckoning" by many of her critics. The book chronicles Trump's life and its meaning from his rise in New York City to his tortured post-presidency. It is the definitive account of one of the most norms-shattering eras in U.S. political history.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Willie M. Joseph
• Release date: Oct 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215827871

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Summary of

Confidence Man

By

Maggie Haberman

The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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Willie M. Joseph

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Contents

Prologue

The Power of Negative Thinking

Welcome to Fear City

Fifth Avenue Frieze-Out

Blind to the Beautiful Mosaic

On the Way Up

On the Way Down

Nice and Complicated

The America We Deserve

Asphalt Survivor

140 Characters

Rising on a Lie

Make or Break

Many People Are Saying

Stop the Steal

The Sci-Fi Campaign

No One Smarter

Why It’s Presidential

Out Like Flynn

Executive Time

In the Tank

The Greatest Showman

Taking a Bullet

Extreme Action

Tougher Than the Rest

One Strike and You’re Out

Acquitted

Get Healthy America

Divide and Conquer

Tulsa

Not One of the Diers

Trial by Combat

Epilogue

Prologue

In May 2016, the Anti-Defamation League asked Donald Trump for a response to David Duke's antisemitic remarks. Trump said he totally disavows what Duke said about Jewish extremists. A few seconds later, we hung up and he asked, What do you need me to say?. Being close to Trump was like being friends with a hurricane, one longtime friend said. In the White House, those who met him for the first time saw someone not at all like the angry voice of his Twitter feed.

Even those who rationalized staying close to Donald Trump acknowledged that a Bad Trump always revealed himself. He treated rules and regulations as unnecessary obstacles rather than constraints on his behavior. He lost his temper suddenly, and abusively, directing his ire at one aide in a roomful of others. David Rothkopf: Trump found his moment in a celebrity-obsessed country that treated politics as a wrestling match. He capitalized on the collapse of cultural and political identities into one another.

He saw no need to change after winning the White House in 2016, he said. When Donald Trump lost his bid for a second term, he attacked the democratic processes that brought him to power. For weeks, he insisted ballots cast against him were fraudulent without providing evidence. He pursued a scorched-earth strategy even as his private actions conceded the bleak reality of his situation. Donald Trump's lack of experience in government was cited as one of the reasons he lost voters to Hillary Clinton, according to an internal White House survey.

David Rothkopf's book is an examination of Donald Trump's White House years. He spoke to more than 250 people, many of them former aides and advisers, about their time working for him. Much of what happened in the White House was foretold by Trump's life before he became president. When Donald Trump arrived in Washington, he defaulted to the wisdom of boom-and-bust cycles in his business and personal life. Without understanding how the federal government worked, he recreated around him the world that had shaped him.

He treated the country like a version of New York City's five boroughs. Donald Trump's father, Norman Vincent Peale, instilled in him a belief that he could will things into existence. From Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani, he learned about showmanship in elected office. How much of Trump's displays of brute personality have been a function of keeping people from seeing through artifice? For all his talk of how he values loyalty, he has been most abusive to those who offer it to him.

Donald Trump's most consistent attributes are a desire to grind down his opponents and projection that things will somehow always work out in his favor. His willingness to take a course of action that he knows will inflame critics and lead to him being seen as tough has guided him for decades. When Donald Trump was elected president, he was seen as someone who'd built big