Its Even Worse Than You Think, David Cay Johnston
Its Even Worse Than You Think, David Cay Johnston
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It's Even Worse Than You Think
What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

Bestseller

Author: David Cay Johnston

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Unabridged: 10 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/16/2018


Synopsis

From David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestselling The Making of Donald Trump, comes his New York Times bestseller about how the Trump Administration’s policies will affect our jobs, savings, taxes, and safety—completed revised and updated.

New York Times bestselling author and longtime Trump observer David Cay Johnston shines a light on the political termites who have infested our government under the Trump administration, destroying it from within and compromising our jobs, safety, finances, and more.

In It’s Even Worse Than You Think, Johnston exposes shocking details about the Mexican border wall, and how American consumers will end up paying for it, if it ever gets built; climate change, and all about Scott Pruitt who spent much of his career trying to destroy the agency he now heads; stocking—not draining—the swamp, despite his promise to do the opposite, Trump has filled his cabinet with millionaires and billionaires; and the Kleptocracy, where Donald Jr. and Eric run an eyes-wide-open blind trust of Trump holdings to avoid the appearance of conflict of interest—but not the reality.

With story after story, It’s Even Worse Than You Think "diagnoses the Trump administration as a…government by the least qualified and most venal among us” (The Washington Post). This is “a momentously thorough account of President Trump’s alarmingly chaotic first year in office…a precise and fiery indictment of an unstable, unethical president that concludes with a call for us to defend our democracy” (Booklist) and is “urgent, necessary reading” (Kirkus Reviews).

About David Cay Johnston

David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter and bestselling author of The Making of Donald Trump and It’s Even Worse Than You Think. He has lectured on economics, journalism, and tax policy on every continent except Antarctica and is a former president of Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE). Johnston has been a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN, the BBC, ABC World News TonightDemocracy Now!, and NPR’s Morning Edition, among other shows, and was a consultant for the Netflix series House of Cards.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on March 25, 2020

David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer-winning journalist specializing in economics and taxes, dives deep into the weeds in this sequel to his bestseller The Making of Donald Trump, and reveals how the Trump administration—issue by issue, government department by government department—is dismantling governm......more

Goodreads review by Scott on August 30, 2024

8/30/2024 addendum: I wrote this review back in February 2018. Simpler times. Pre-Covid. Pre-January 6. Reading this, I'm struck by how prophetic I was, but let's be honest: the writing was on the wall. January 6 just seemed inevitable... I, like many Americans, wake up every morning dreading what n......more

Goodreads review by Mal on February 14, 2018

Most of the books I've read about Donald Trump focus squarely on the man himself, his relations with the people surrounding him in the White House, and his outrageous behavior. David Cay Johnston's book is somewhat different. Trump's erratic actions and insults are acknowledged throughout. He is unq......more

Goodreads review by Michael on September 07, 2018

Too much self-promotion and unfortunately things have worsened considerably in the months since it was published.......more

Goodreads review by Andy on March 09, 2018

I've enjoyed this author's previous works of investigative reporting and thought this might be the smart choice in the pile of Trump books, but I was disappointed. True, Trump is even worse than I thought, but so what? I already thought he was a shameless crook. It's not like we get to vote on a sca......more