150 Books Show How the Trump Era Has Warped Our Brains

I blame Michael Wolff. Not just for the typos and minor errors littering Fire and Fury , his early-2018 best seller on the chaos coursing through the Trump White House. Not only for the dubious renditions of reality his book offers. ("If it rings true, it is true," Wolff said in an MSNBC interview about the book, a standard as journalistically appalling as it is perversely apropos of the times.) Not even for the unsupported suggestion—which the author casually drops into his epilogue—that Donald Trump and then–United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley were carrying on an affair. Haley had become a "particular focus of Trump's attention, and he of hers," Wolff writes, adding that the two had been spending "a notable amount of private time" together aboard Air Force One. (When not enough people picked up on the hint, Wolff drew attention to the supposed liaison in a television interview: "Now that I've told you, when you hit that paragraph, you're going to say, 'Bingo.'") No, I blame Wolff above all for setting a template for so many Trump books to follow—a template that former White House aides, administration officials, and even journalists far superior to Wolff have emulated to varying… Read full this story

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