![]() He accepts the narrative of aides who present themselves as “the self-appointed adults in the room” and claim to have a taming influence on Trump’s wilder instincts. And Wolff seems happy to oblige, adding bleach to the whites. “Landslide” is told through sources within the Trump White House and reelection campaign, people with a vested interest in laundering their reputations through Wolff. It’s clear that Wolff finds all of this both captivating and repulsive, but he is unable or unwilling to fully grapple with his own role in it, the way reality TV producers may create a hyper-exploitative franchise like “My 600-Lb Life” and tell themselves that they’re only giving viewers what they want - or worse, that they’re doing something for the greater good (for them, perhaps it’s a claim to expanding our empathy for Wolff, it’s ostensibly the work of political journalism). ![]() ![]() In telling the story of Donald Trump’s failed reelection campaign and his tumultuous final weeks in office, Wolff spins a tale of a comically inept legal team, a White House and a campaign full of hangers-on who grow successively less tethered to reality, and a wholly demented president who has quite simply lost it. ![]() It is sordid and foul-mouthed, darkly funny, appropriately excoriating of its main subject, and entirely addictive, and in that sense, it is a very good book. Let’s first stipulate that Michael Wolff’s “ Landslide” is a very entertaining book. ![]()
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