The New York Times journalist Jonathan Swan has spent the past 11 years covering President Trump through three political campaigns, his first, and now second, term in office and the ongoing war with Iran. Swan says aside from the COVID-19 pandemic, he can't remember a time where Trump looked "as stuck as he looks right now."
"It's pretty clear he realizes that this war [with Iran] has not gone well, has not played out the way that Netanyahu pitched him or that Trump himself thought [it] would play out," Swan says. "Trump is someone who is naturally given to hubris, but I think we saw a very extreme version of that with this war."
Swan and his co-author Maggie Haberman spoke with more than 1,000 sources for their new book, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. The book paints a picture of an unrestrained president remaking the American government and its international relations in profound ways.
Trump relished in being compared to dictators like Hitler and Stalin, journalist says
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/15/nx-s1-5893633/trump-regime-change-jonathan-swan-maggie-haberman
16 Comments
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 34 pts · 60d
Trump likes to be talked about ... Stalin and Hitler are still talked about. Not a complicated game.
newton@feddit.online · 24 pts · 60d
Just a loser and criminal ,nothing else
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 60d
And a bunch of toadies and bootlickers enabling him. And a bunch of morons who cheer him on.
deft@lemmy.wtf · 6 pts · 60d
I'll be honest they were loser criminals too. Loser criminals can do a lot of damage for the rest of us
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 60d
Lets compare him to his buddy epstein, then!
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 60d
That obese thing would secretly like that, too. It wants people to know it can get away loads of bad shit, it's a power trip thing.
We should compare that disgusting thing to a pile of rotting cabbage or rancid gonorrhoea.
SuiXi3D@fedia.io · 16 pts · 60d
Too bad he always chickens out of offing himself.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 9 pts · 60d
mushroom dicktator can fuck off.
Add it to the lists of things he's turned to absolute fucking dogshit.
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 60d
Well sure, he’s a dictator wannabe.
sen@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 60d
I hope his killer is wearing pervert glasses.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 60d
These people are more responsible for Trump than voters and as responsible as billionaires. They could have exposed all this during his stupid TV show and presidency but selfishly sold themselves and their news consumers out for more money. Fuck. Them.
Triumph@fedia.io · 7 pts · 60d
I know that Maggie Haberman has been vocal about it for years.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 0 pts · 60d
She saved the worst for her cash cows.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 60d
Yep, and can you blame her? Trump's evil hasn't been a secret since the grab em by the pussy tape, and he still got elected twice. Might as well cash in. Good for her.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 60d
Like a true journalist, right?
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 60d
Maybe I'd compare him to Mao in some ways.