“I’ve had to put up with the Fake News from the first day I announced that I would be running for President,” he tweeted. “Michael Wolff is a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really boring and untruthful book,” Trump tweeted. Trump has denounced the book, and he’s threatened to file a defamation lawsuit against Wolff, characterizing Fire and Fury as an extended hit piece against his administration. In Wolff’s account, the Trump administration is an office sitcom parody of hell-a bizarro Veep-the Republican Party having rendered itself so low in a hilariously arrogant quest for the power that the president frequently uses to punish, humiliate, and disappoint his co-conspirators. Wolff seems to derive his book’s title from Trump’s notorious August 2017 threat to obliterate North Korea, but the fire and fury at the heart of the book mostly afflicts the president’s inner circle, including once-favored advisers such as Bannon and early loyalists such as Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Michael Wolff’s new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, includes Cohn’s email among a trove of similarly bitter quotes from the people who engineered Trump’s political ascent. Bannon may be a prick, Kushner may be a fool, and the Republican Party may be a decrepit conspiracy-but Cohn convinces himself that he, personally, will redeem Trump’s apocalyptic significance by sheer force of personal decency and competence. “I hate the work, but feel I need to stay because I’m the only person there with a clue what he’s doing.” It’s a silly bit of exceptionalism that Cohn cites and relies on to get himself through these dark, bizarre days. “No one will survive the first year but his family,” the email’s author surmises. The email is linked to Gary Cohn, a Democrat, who leads the National Economic Council under President Donald Trump, having emigrated from the comfort of Goldman Sachs to Trump’s disastrous White House. Trump is less a person than a collection of terrible traits.” The email is an employee’s withering assessment of his boss. Bannon is an arrogant prick who thinks he’s smarter than he is. Kushner is an entitled baby who knows nothing.

He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored. Trump won’t read anything-not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers nothing.

“It’s worse than you can imagine,” the leaked email begins.

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