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Inside Trump's 'cartoonishly chaotic' presidency

The backbiting led to constant personnel turnover, a dreary parade of firings, resignations and defenestrations

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THE DIVIDER: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

David Greenberg | NYT
THE DIVIDER: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 
Author: Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
Publisher: Doubleday
Pages: 752
Price: $32

“His job wasn’t to get things done but to stop certain things from happening, to prevent disaster.”

This line from Peter Baker and Susan Glasser’s detail-rich history of the Trump administration, The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, technically applies to his first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson. But in truth it describes any of several dozen beleaguered helpmates to the former president, whose propensity for petulant rage kept Washington in a fit of indignation and the White House in a mode of

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