The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump
by Bob Woodward
View on GoodreadsThe audio (and transcribed) record of Woodward's twenty interviews with Trump — material that fed Rage and Fear, presented here in raw form so readers can hear the pattern directly.
Core ideas
- The interviews capture the COVID admission ("I wanted to always play it down") on tape — the document Woodward held back for the book and that defined the early-pandemic political fight.
- Beyond that single revelation, the cumulative effect is the documentation of a stable cognitive and rhetorical pattern across many hours: grievance, self-promotion, indifference to verification.
- The genre is unusual — a presidential primary source captured by an adversarial-but-trusted journalist over the course of an administration.
Published2022
Pages12
ISBN9781797124735
ReadOct 2022
