Cliff Sims

Team of Vipers (eBook, ePUB)

My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Team of Vipers: The Shocking Inside Story of Power, Ambition, and Betrayal in the Trump White House

After standing at Donald Trump's side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy. He soon found himself pulled into the President's inner circle as a confidante, an errand boy, an advisor, a punching bag, and a friend. Sometimes all in the same conversation.

As a result, Sims gained unprecedented access to the President, sitting in on private meetings with key Congressional officials, world leaders, and top White House advisors. He saw how Trump handled the challenges of the office, and he learned from Trump himself how he saw the world.

For five hundred days, Sims also witnessed first-hand the infighting and leaking, the anger, joy, and recriminations. He had a role in some of the President's biggest successes, and he shared the blame for some of his administration's worst disasters. He gained key, often surprising insights into the players of the Trump West Wing, from Jared Kushner and John Kelly to Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway.

Sims stood with the President in the eye of the storm raging around him, and now he tells the story that no one else has written-because no one else could. Team of Vipers is the honest insider's account of the Trump White House, from the power plays and palace intrigue to the moral compromises. This is the full story, told by a true insider, of what it was really like as a member of the President's team during this historic presidency.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martin's Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250223906
• Artikelnr.: 55044837

Autorenporträt

CLIFF SIMS was the CEO of Yellowhammer Multimedia, Alabama's premiere source for political news, until he joined the Trump campaign in August 2016. After the election, he moved from Trump Tower to the West Wing, where he crafted the White House's messaging. He's now the president of Telegraph Creative, a full-service creative shop and digital transformation firm. He lives with his wife and dog in Birmingham, Alabama.

Inhaltsangabe

Author's Note
Introduction: Election Night
1. Slow Climb Aboard the Trump Train
2. The Deplorables
3. Fight or Flight
4. Size Matters
5. Early Days in the "Dump"
6. Twenty-one Days on Top of the World
7. The Professionals
8. Killers
9. The Mooch Is Loose
10. Better Angels
11. A Tale of Two Generals
12. Cut Cut Cut
13. Frenemies of the People
14. Black Eyes and Broken Glass
15. Disposable
Epilogue: Outside the Bubble
Acknowledgments
Index

Rezensionen

"Sims' book makes much of infighting among White House staff. "The whole thing felt like Game of Thrones, but with the characters from Veep," writes Sims" -Axios

"What is most memorable about Team of Vipers is the joylessness of working for this president and the acrid aftertaste it leaves." -The Guardian

"But like other accounts of the Trump White House written by former staff members or journalists, the narrative and anecdotes support much of the real-time reporting about the administration. Mr. Sims also writes that leaks by various staff members have been in service of creating specific portraits of events or undermining rivals. They have not always portrayed the full truth, he suggests." -The New York Times

"Sims, who enjoyed uncommon personal access to Trump, recounts expletive-filled scenes of chaos, dysfunction and duplicity among the president, his family members and administration officials. Unlike memoirs of other Trump officials, Sims's book is neither a sycophantic portrayal of the president nor a blistering account written to settle scores." -The Washington Post

"Some lively writing, but also has some extraordinary exchanges." -John Dickerson, Slate Political Gabfest