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The Trump Tapes

By: Bob Woodward
Narrated by: Donald J. Trump, Bob Woodward
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 “I’m doing something here that I’ve never done before, presenting the lengthy, raw interviews of my work. In the fall of 2019 through August 2020, I interviewed President Trump 19 times for my second book on his presidency, Rage. I had also interviewed him in 2016 when he was a presidential candidate. I decided to take this unusual step of releasing these recordings after relistening in full to all 20 interviews. As I listened to them again I was stunned by their relevance to understanding Trump. Hearing Trump speak is a completely different experience to reading the transcripts or listening to snatches of interviews on television or the internet.” Bob Woodward from The Trump Tapes

The Trump Tapes is the intimate and astonishing audio archive of Bob Woodward’s 20 interviews with Donald Trump.

Featuring more than eight hours of Woodward/Trump conversations, The Trump Tapes is as historically important as the Frost/Nixon interviews. In this up-close, unvarnished self-portrait of Trump and his presidency, listeners will hear Trump as Woodward did: profane, incautious, divisive, and deceptive, but also engaging and entertaining, ever the host and the salesman, trying to sell his presidency to win Woodward over.

Relying on familiar devices – airing grievances, stoking divisions, repeating himself to a staggering degree, as if saying something often and loud enough will make something true – Trump uses his voice as a concussive instrument, pounding in the listener’s ear.

In new commentary created exclusively for The Trump Tapes, Woodward at times breaks frame from the interviews to provide essential context or clarification. But for the most part the interviews proceed uninterrupted, fulfilling Woodward’s goal of presenting Trump’s voice and words for the historical record, and offering listeners the chance to hear and judge and make their own assessments.

As relevant as ever to the task of understanding Donald Trump, The Trump Tapes reveal Trump in his own words – a man consumed by the past and clinging to his grievances, unable to understand his responsibilities as president or address the crises affecting the country.
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Hoisted upon his own petard is a pale expression when attempting to describe the self-delusion by which the 45th President conducts his entire life. After listening to his thoroughly unpleasant voice tell lie upon lie, admit to crime upon crime. without any apparent awareness that he is doing so, I can only conclude that he believes what he is saying. I congratulate Woodward for making periodic fact checks because otherwise, it would have been unbearable to listen to the whole thing. It is an appalling display of an avaricious want to be despot who overreached and failed. My greatest criticism is that Woodward held back pieces of the interviews that could have potentially saved lives. Sadly, it only confirms what many of us already knew in 2016. Those who need to hear it will never listen.

When you thought you knew it all

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There is something undeniably gripping and terrifying about listening to the original tapes that cant be conveyed either in print or narration.

It is even more compelling that the original book

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Utterly compelling. Like being locked in a tumble dryer that changes spin direction at a whim.

Unreal

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The solipsism and outright childishness of Trump is the main feature of this historical artifact.

Trump comes across as a repetitive, narrow minded idiot. More infant than evil dictator. The ignorance and complete absence of empathy is stunning. He is disabled. Literally unable to put any kind of plan together, to offer any framework for his actions.

It’s mind boggling to imagine that this person was able to hold any kind of office. He barely functions.

It’s a terrifying record.

Unbelievably crass dialogue with a head of state

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This gives a unique and incredible insight into the mind of Donald Trump. A phenomenal audiobook.

Wow

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