Fate often has a sense of humor: This week, Donald Trump, a president who never reads, was buried by a book. By deepening the mistrust between Trump and his advisors, the book will inevitably hasten the departures that already have begun to erode the administration’s top ranks. "The sense of chaos, the constant fight, fight, fight and alarm bells going off all the time" were what voters were reacting against, Trippi told me. OFFSHORE DRILLING, ONSHORE TOKINGWhile Wolff’s book dominated the news, the administration did take two big policy steps this week — both of them carrying political risk. They have little to lose in California, where Trump these days is only slightly more popular than a wildfire.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 05, 2018 16:30 UTC