US President Donald Trump has shown signs of impatience with the war in Afghanistan, according to a new book written by one of America's top journalists Bob Woodward, a media report said Tuesday.
Titled "Fear: Trump in the White House", the eagerly-awaited 448-page volume is scheduled to hit book stores on September 11 and claims to give an insider's account on the White House working and decision-making process in Trump's presidency.
A report on the book, along with some excerpts, were published by 'The Washington Post' Tuesday.
According to the report, Trump has shown impatience with the Afghanstan war, which is now America's longest war, and in one of the meetings with his top aides accused the military leadership of losing the war.
"At a July 2017 National Security Council meeting, Trump dressed down his generals and other advisers for 25 minutes, complaining that the United States was losing, according to Woodward," the report said.
Trump did not give any interview for this book and when he called Woodward for it, the renowned author had already completed his manuscript.
"The soldiers on the ground could run things much better than you," Trump told them, according to the book.
"They could do a much better job. I don't know what the hell we're doing". He went on to ask, "How many more deaths? How many more lost limbs? How much longer are we going to be there?"
According to the report, in his book, Woodward recounts repeated episodes of anxiety inside the government over Trump's handling of the North Korean nuclear threat.
"One month into his presidency, Trump asked Dunford for a plan for a preemptive military strike on North Korea, which rattled the combat veteran," the daily reported.
Woodward, an associate editor at The Washington Post, writes that Trump during his meetings has repeatedly questioned the rational of massive US military spending against North Korea.
Woodward writes that the book is drawn from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand participants and witnesses that were conducted on "deep background", meaning the information could be used but he would not reveal who provided it. His account is also drawn from meeting notes, personal diaries and government documents, the report said.
With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, author Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies, according to the book publishers.
He draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents.
The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence, it said.
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