The New York Times journalist Jonathan Swan has spent the past 11 years covering President Trump through three political campaigns, his first, and now second, term in office and the ongoing war with Iran. Swan says aside from the COVID-19 pandemic, he can’t remember a time where Trump looked “as stuck as he looks right now.”

“It’s pretty clear he realizes that this war [with Iran] has not gone well, has not played out the way that Netanyahu pitched him or that Trump himself thought [it] would play out,” Swan says. “Trump is someone who is naturally given to hubris, but I think we saw a very extreme version of that with this war.”

Swan and his co-author Maggie Haberman spoke with more than 1,000 sources for their new book, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. The book paints a picture of an unrestrained president remaking the American government and its international relations in profound ways.

    • deftBanned
      6·
      2 months ago

      I’ll be honest they were loser criminals too. Loser criminals can do a lot of damage for the rest of us

    • D_C@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      2 months ago

      That obese thing would secretly like that, too. It wants people to know it can get away loads of bad shit, it’s a power trip thing.

      We should compare that disgusting thing to a pile of rotting cabbage or rancid gonorrhoea.

  • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    mushroom dicktator can fuck off.

    Add it to the lists of things he’s turned to absolute fucking dogshit.

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    53·
    2 months ago

    These people are more responsible for Trump than voters and as responsible as billionaires. They could have exposed all this during his stupid TV show and presidency but selfishly sold themselves and their news consumers out for more money. Fuck. Them.