Summary of Anonymous's A Warning

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The decision to declare ISIS defeated was a watershed moment for another reason. It signaled the downfall of key officials who thought they could bring order to the administration’s chaos. Within days, the president decided in a temper tantrum to move Secretary Mattis’s departure date forward. This once again threw the Department of Defense into turmoil.
#2 The 2017 election marked the rise of a loose cabal of pragmatists in the Trump administration. They were concerned about the president’s erratic management style, and they made a concerted effort to replace it with a disciplined policy process.
#3 The handover of the US presidency is never easy, but the early days of the Trump administration were particularly difficult. The campaign had expected to win, and so had most of the staff members, leaving no time to prepare a proper transition.
#4 Despite the internal bedlam, the president-elect did not end up with a government entirely made up of flunkies. Far from it, in fact. He assembled a team of rivals that were not tainted by the internal politics of the campaign.

Sujets

• Political
• Lettres et linguistique
• Biography
• Politics
• Autobiography

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 03 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822534346
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Anonymous's A Warning
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The decision to declare ISIS defeated was a watershed moment for another reason. It signaled the downfall of key officials who thought they could bring order to the administration’s chaos. Within days, the president decided in a temper tantrum to move Secretary Mattis’s departure date forward. This once again threw the Department of Defense into turmoil.

#2

The 2017 election marked the rise of a loose cabal of pragmatists in the Trump administration. They were concerned about the president’s erratic management style, and they made a concerted effort to replace it with a disciplined policy process.

#3

The handover of the US presidency is never easy, but the early days of the Trump administration were particularly difficult. The campaign had expected to win, and so had most of the staff members, leaving no time to prepare a proper transition.

#4

Despite the internal bedlam, the president-elect did not end up with a government entirely made up of flunkies. Far from it, in fact. He assembled a team of rivals that were not tainted by the internal politics of the campaign.

#5

In just days into office, Trump signed off on a rapid-fire succession of executive orders intended toundo Obama administration policies, cut regulations, spur economic growth, and more. Some orders backfired spectacularly, like the travel ban on citizens from supposedly terrorist countries.

#6

Even the president's most experienced advisers were shocked at how quickly things were falling apart.

#7

The first Steady State was formed to keep the wheels from coming off the White House wagon. When presidential appointees started conferring about their shared concerns with the president, it was not in dimly lit, smoke-filled back rooms of Washington. It was done informally, on the margins of meetings.

#8

Trump’s attention span was extremely limited, and the White House had to change how it briefed him in order to get his approval on anything. They would dramatically downsize documents, and instead of presenting complicated proposals, they would just post single pages as pictures on Twitter.

#9

The president’s propensity for making snap decisions with no forethought or discussion was both educating and alarming for the fledgling Steady State. It was a visceral lesson that we weren’t just appointees of the president, but glorified government babysitters.

#10

The roller coaster of presidential whims became the norm, with aftershocks that could be felt for days. Some aides even encouraged Trump to hold more campaign rallies, despite the fact that it wasn't campaign season.

#11

The Trump White House had a very different approach to governing. The president never learned to manage the government's day-to-day functions, and he didn't care about doing so. This remained a problem. He didn't know how the executive branch worked, and he didn't know how to lead it.

#12

The White House is completely and utterly chaotic. There are hardly any policies or procedures in place, and it is easy for the administration to run afoul of federal laws, ethics guidelines, and other norms of behavior.

#13

Among our friends, let’s be honest, about a third of the things the president wants us to do are flat-out stupid. Another third would be impossible to implement and wouldn’t even solve the problem. And a third of them would be flat-out illegal.

#14

Trump has a habit of suggesting things that are illegal. He often doesn’t understand the limits of federal law, and thinks he can just order an agency to stop spending money on something he doesn’t like.

#15

The president has the ability to do whatever he wants, and he often uses that to his advantage. He will ask random people what they think about an issue, and if they don’t object, he'll go along with it.