It's Even Worse Than You Think

What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

By: David Cay Johnston

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

"One of America's most important journalists" (The Washington Monthly), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and author of the New York Times best seller The Making of Donald Trump, David Cay Johnston examines the Trump administration's policies in its first 100 days, showing how its actions affect our jobs, finances, safety, and much more.

No working journalist knows Donald Trump better than David Cay Johnston, who first met the 45th president in 1988 and has tracked him ever since. Johnston chronicled much of Trump's conduct in two books: Temples of Chance and the best-selling The Making of Donald Trump. He was also an uncredited source of documents and insight for major campaign reports by The Washington Post, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and network television. When Trump announced his campaign in June 2015, Johnston was the first national journalist to write about a potential Trump presidency.

Now Johnston examines the first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency, including a close look at what the mainstream press stopped covering years ago: the workings of the federal government agencies and how that touches the lives of all Americans, from our wallets to our health care to our safety. He also provides unique insight about how our lives are affected by many actions that the new administration quietly approves without drawing the attention of the Washington press corps.

Featuring Johnston's renowned skill in bringing government policy to life, this crucial book clearly explains how our daily lives will be affected by the actions of the Trump Administration. This book is essential listening for all Americans.

©2018 David Cay Johnston (P)2018 Simon & Schuster Audio

A Must Read All Never-Trumper should read this!

All should pray that this president is not reelected! It is scary what could happen.

Good read, I'd recommend it.

It is very insightful. I think the writer, spun too much negativity. Facts are simple. It was a great point- counterpoint book. I would recommend it to those without a lot of knowledge concerning Mr. Trump or politics and policy.

It makes it easier to believe, American society has been marred by its political, social, and economic incongruences by a select few. If you're into conspiracies without a factual basis, I'm into History and Political Science. So, I enjoyed the approach to curb people's image of Trump. While simply sticking to factual statements and lack of follow through on Trump's part concerning his policy, Johnston provided much needed clarity.

Throughout his lifetime Mr. Trump has definitely over inflated his accomplishments, scheming and denying [lying] seems to be his most prized talents.

Alerting the country to a clear and present danger

Excellent analysis of Trump and what to expect of this administration. It enlightened me about how dire a position our country is in. The damage that this man is reigning on our society is appalling. America has to wake up to this danger.

Throughly enjoyed this book...

Very educational and well written. Thought provoking and highly interesting. Everyone should read to get a clearer understanding of what this administration is doing to this country. Writer takes you step by step through the craziness of all that has been transpiring since Trump took office. David Johnson’s summary at the end of his book was superb and directly to the point. Excellent book.

Excellent, but Painful

Excellent content well delivered ... it is painful to hear what is really going on with this administration, but it should be required reading / listening for all Americans. Much easier to stick your head in the sand. Some realities and facts were so upsetting, I had to listen to the chapters in short sessions, or risk getting too depressed. Knowledge is power, though --- and as difficult as it is to hear what's really going on, it's important for us to know. Thank you, David Johnston, for continuing to shine a spotlight on the dark underbelly of the current power structure.

All the things we never knew

Thank you Mr. Johnston for putting this all in one book. Who would ever believe the American people could elect such a fool.

this book pissed me off. because it told the truth

it is overwhelming how Trump is dismantling our democracy and social protections.

today's news is focusing on conspiracy with the Russians so all the other important news falls away and is largely left unreported.

We are in dire trouble.

Excellent work

A grand summary of the hypocrisy and horror of this administration. The narrator is great as well. I’ll forever hear “Trump quotes” in his voice when I read them. A must read (or listen).

It really is worse that most think.

Much more detail of how much damage Trump policies are changing America for the worse. Three more years should push us back 50 years and delay progress for another 25. He sure is running the country as his businesses. poorly as he would say really really poorly. Good Help Us!

An important look at America under Trump

David Cay Johnston is a working journalist who has covered Donald Trump for decades, and has written two previous books about him. In this book, he looks not at Trump's personal life and all the possible, ah, colorful details, which at this writing are much in the news, but strictly at his actions as President, and his business dealings that explain and illuminate those actions.

This is very much a fact-based book, examining what Trump has actually done, and the practical effects, as well as the direct contrast between Trump's specific and oft-repeated campaign promises to help, for instance, students struggling under student loans or workers who aren't finding jobs because companies have moved those jobs overseas, or to help small businesses, and what his policies really are. Trump has appointed Betsy DeVos to head the Dept. of Education. She has no real education experience, but is deeply involved in for-profit education companies. Under Trump and DeVos, President Obama's progress toward protecting students from predatory loan practices by for-profit schools are being reversed, not improved. This is just one easily summarized example. To fully understand this example and others, Johnston's careful detailing of the actions, their background, and their effects are necessary.

He lays out Trump's many conflicts of interest, and the extent to which Trump's approach to the Presidency is truly different not just from our most respected Presidents, but even from the ones we've considered incompetent or corrupt. We see how tangled, contradictory, and profoundly unhelpful his immigration actions and policies are to the American workers he has promised he will help with those immigration policies are. Again, another example, one better understood with Johnston's detail and context than in a short review.

This is an important book. It is fact-based, not ideology-driven. You will learn by reading or listening to it.

Highly recommended.

I bought this audiobook.