LONDON: The author of a book that is highly critical of Donald Trump’sfirst year as U.S. president said his revelations were likely to bring anend to Trump’s time in the White House.
Michael Wolff told BBC radio that his conclusion in “Fire and Fury: Insidethe Trump White House”– that Trump is not fit to do the job — wasbecoming a widespread view.
“I think one of the interesting effects of the book so far is a very clearemperor-has-no-clothes effect,” Wolff said in an interview broadcast onSaturday.
“The story that I have told seems to present this presidency in such a waythat it says he can’t do his job,” Wolff said.
“Suddenly everywhere people are going ‘oh my God, it’s true, he has noclothes’. That’s the background to the perception and the understandingthat will finally end … this presidency.”[image: an image]
Trump has dismissed the book as full of lies. It depicts a chaotic WhiteHouse, a president who was ill-prepared to win the office in 2016, andTrump aides who scorned his abilities.
Trump took to Twitter late on Friday to renew his attacks on Wolff, and onhis former top aide Steve Bannon who was quoted in the book.
“Michael Wolff is a total loser who made up stories in order to sell thisreally boring and untruthful book,” Trump said. “He used Sloppy SteveBannon, who cried when he got fired and begged for his job. Now SloppySteve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone. Too bad!”
Bannon, formerly Trump’s chief strategist, is chairman of the so-calledalt-right Breitbart News website
In his interview with the BBC, Wolff was asked if he believed that Bannonfelt Trump was unfit to serve as president and would try to bring him down.“Yes,” Wolff replied.
He also hit back at claims that the book was untruthful.
“This is what’s called reporting. This is how you do it.” he said. “You askpeople, you get as close as you can to the event, you interview the peoplewho were privy to the event, you interview other people who were privy tothe event, you come to know the circumstance as well as anybody and thenyou report it.”