Siege: Trump Under Fire
by Michael Wolff
View on GoodreadsWolff's second Trump book — covering 2018-2019, particularly the Mueller probe period — built on the same Bannon-source-dominant approach as Fire and Fury.
Core ideas
- The Mueller-probe reconstruction is the book's spine — Wolff's account of the administration's collective anxiety, the West Wing's day-to-day operating under threat of imminent revelation, and Trump's specific reactions across the months of the investigation.
- The "siege" framing was contemporaneous and turned out to be roughly accurate for Trump's emotional state if not his political situation; the book's reporting on the contemporaneous mood inside the White House aged better than its predictions about consequences.
- Reading it the same day as All or Nothing is the deliberate completion-of-canon pattern — finishing both halves of Wolff's first-term coverage in a single sitting.
Published2019
Pages352
ISBN9781250253828
ReadFeb 2026
