Michael Wolff, Siege

- This is a tiresome account of the same old dickheads. After 50 pages I asked myself should I continue? In Fire and Fury the chaos was new information and therefore revealing. Now, it’s all old news, and nothing surprises us.

- Steve Bannon features strongly again. He’s used as a chorus, brazenly and crudely commenting on everything and everyone.

- Trump is once again portrayed as a stupid, demented, certifiably insane, totally self-obsessed, cruel, ugly and miserable turd. He even dislikes his 13 year old son Barron, and his marriage to the mysterious Melania has presumably descended to a transactional, self-preservation agreement.

- Wolf’s problem is that, after the last two and a half years of Trump’s presidency, we know Trump is rubbish, and we know all the White House staffers, lawyers and other grossly incompetent has-beens who have come and gone through that chaotic period. 

- That’s why this book is essentially boring. The most interesting chapters are ‘Kavanaugh’ and the Epilogue on the fizzer that was the Mueller Report.

- It will sell perhaps 10% of Fire and Fury’s huge numbers. And the great majority of buyers will only skip through it at best.