Dozens of books are sure to result from the staggering events of Donald Trump‘s second term, from the president’s unprecedented grip on the media to the spectacle of America’s tech leaders kissing his ring and the constant challenges to civil liberties. One of the first major ones out of the gate is “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” from New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman and Times investigative reporter Jonathan Swan.
The book “draws on extensive interviews conducted on the condition of anonymity to recount internal discussions and sensitive issues,” said the New York Times, which has come under some criticism for not immediately publishing any fresh revelations instead of waiting for the book to be published. But even more than revealing secrets, it’s the sheer accumulation of unprecedented events that makes it a notable work: Trump’s obsession with currying favor with the likes of Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg (“X, Facebook, Apple, TikTok, and Google had all bent the knee,” the book notes); the frantic White House scramble to head off fallout from the Epstein files, and the unusual positioning of the American president as some kind of uber-meme informed by the imagery of action movies and wrestling.
