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kstep1805 's review for:
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
by John Bolton
There are times where I hate rating a book. Did I like this book, um, no. It gave me a panic attack. John Bolton isn’t a “good guy.” He proudly wears his war hawk hat and considers any diplomacy to be weak. It is only because of Trump’s capricious nature and his inability to focus on anything other than himself that we aren’t at war with Iran and North Korea. Read that again, Trump is the reason we aren’t at war with two nuclear or soon to be nuclear regimes. Bolton thinks he’s the smartest person in the room but is maneuvered around constantly by a guy who can’t keep the names of leaders straight.
However, I think this book has an important place in the larger conversation about Trump’s presidency. He is a failure of a leader and all his flip flopping in foreign affairs makes it clear this is the same bullshit that is happening with Covid. He is incapable of making a decision based on any sort of moral grounding but instead follows whatever whims are moving him at the moment. This book will be an important point as we move forward to understanding the disaster that is unfolding. So much stuff makes sense now.
So what rating would you give this book?
However, I think this book has an important place in the larger conversation about Trump’s presidency. He is a failure of a leader and all his flip flopping in foreign affairs makes it clear this is the same bullshit that is happening with Covid. He is incapable of making a decision based on any sort of moral grounding but instead follows whatever whims are moving him at the moment. This book will be an important point as we move forward to understanding the disaster that is unfolding. So much stuff makes sense now.
So what rating would you give this book?