by Jon Sopel
Clinton, Hilary 86, 136, 138, 145, 146–7, 149, 153, 154, 162, 168, 184–5, 197, 222, 281, 282, 285, 286, 287, 289, 291, 292, 296, 297
CNN 85, 123, 136–7, 139, 141–3, 160, 169, 187, 188, 198, 221
Coats, Dan 233
Cohen, Jared: Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America 212
Cohen, Michael 15, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 289–90, 292–3, 294
Cohn, Gary 16, 21–2, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28
Collingwood, Charles 151
Comey, James 134, 278–80, 281, 282, 283, 285, 292, 294–5, 296–8
Compton, Ann 246
Congress, U.S. 22, 37, 40, 41, 57, 58, 76, 84, 108, 115, 116, 118, 132, 151, 181–2, 219, 229, 269, 280, 289, 305 see also House of Representatives and Senate
Constitution, U.S. 37, 41, 222; First Amendment 142–3; 12th Amendment 222; 25th Amendment 31–2, 180–2; impeachment and 275, 303; succession and 180
Conway, Kellyanne xvi, 27, 34, 113
Coolidge, Calvin 212
Cooper, Anderson 160
Cox, Archibald 301
Cruz, Ted 215
Cuba 74, 233, 236
Daily Mail 160
Daniels, Stormy (Stephanie Clifford) 162–8, 290
Darling, Dr Robert G. 207
Darroch, Sir Kim xvi–xxi
Davis, Sid 243–4
D-Day invasion, 75th anniversary of (2019) xvi, 251
Dean, John 293
Decker, Jon 190
deep state 32–3, 285
Democratic Convention, Los Angeles (July 1960) 220, 221
Democratic National Committee (DNC) 285
Democratic Party 22, 35–6, 43, 65, 86, 110, 113, 121–2, 138, 143, 179, 202, 203, 204, 207, 209–10, 211, 216, 219–21, 232, 306
Department of Defense (DoD) 79, 199, 208
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 80, 90
Department of Justice (DoJ) 167, 274, 299, 303, 305
DeVos, Betsy 78, 96–7
Dining Room, West Wing 38, 126, 127, 196
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) 233, 270, 280
Downer, Alexander 285
Earnest, Josh 13, 112, 182
East Room, White House 130, 140, 148, 204
East Wing, White House xxiii, 2, 3, 57, 109, 144–6, 148, 154, 159, 167, 176, 190, 201
economy, U.S. 16, 21–4, 28, 32, 76, 80, 84, 269, 306
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 39, 146, 179, 224, 242
Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB), Washington D.C. 117, 176, 190, 209, 229, 230
Eli Lilly 214
Elizabeth II, Queen xii, xvi, 145, 146, 251
El Paso, Texas, Trump rally in (2019) 125
Emanuel, Rahm 58
Environment Protection Agency (EPA) 83–8, 231–2
Erdogan, Recip Tayep 106, 266
European Union (EU) xi, xii, xx, 27, 249
evangelicals, white 214
Executive Office Building (EOB), Washington D.C. 224
Exxon 98, 103
‘fake news’ 24, 125, 131, 133, 135, 142
FBI 34, 72, 134, 164, 217, 232, 270, 275, 276, 278–80, 281, 282, 283, 285, 286, 289, 292, 294, 295, 296, 297, 299
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 119
Federal Reserve 269
Feldstein, Mark: Poisoning the Press 121
Fillmore, Millard 212
First Lady, office of xiii, 7, 144–5, 146–7, 149, 150–75, 195, 201, 243, 270 see also individual First Lady name
Fleischer, Ari 246
Flynn, Michael 280–1, 283, 288, 289, 292, 294, 295, 297
Ford, Betty 154–5
Ford, Christine Blasey 128
Ford, Gerald 41, 58, 154, 155, 212, 229, 287
Foreign Office, UK xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, 270
Fox News 19, 38, 105, 134, 137, 138, 143, 164–5, 284, 293
free trade 22, 23–4, 26–7
Garner, John Nance 209–10
‘gaslighting’ xv
Gates, Rick 288, 294
Gates, Robert 98
Gilmer, Thomas 74
Gingrich, Newt 216, 217–18
Giuliani, Rudy 163, 164–5
globalisation 16, 22–4, 26–7, 249
Goldman Sachs 16, 23, 92
Goldstone, Rob 287–8
Goodwin, Doris Kearns: Team of Rivals 72
Gore, Al 221
government shutdown, U.S. (2018–19) 35–6, 37, 96
Graham, Billy 117
Graham, Lindsey 61
Greenberg, David: Republic of Spin 115
Grisham, Stephanie xiii, xiv, xv, 175
G7: Quebec summit (2018) 259–60; Sicily summit (2017) 236–7
G20: Hamburg summit (2017) 269–70
gun control 22, 218
Haberman, Maggie 124
Haig, Alexander 58
Haldeman, H.R. 39–40
Haley, Nikki 77–8, 104–5
Hamilton (rap musical) xxiii
Hamlin, Hannibal 222
Hanks, Tom 110
Hanna, Mark 211
Hannity, Sean 165
Harder, Charles 160
Hart, J. Steven 85
Haspel, Gina 101
healthcare 16, 19, 22, 48, 62, 63, 85, 89, 153, 154, 200, 207–8
House of Representatives, U.S. 35, 65, 86, 121–2, 180, 181, 201, 202, 210, 216, 230; Intelligence Committee 281; Speaker of 19, 35, 36, 43, 180, 181, 216, 230, 232, 271
Huffington Post 17
Hughes, Sarah T. 243
Hupp, Millan 84
Hussein, Saddam 248
immigration xiii, 16, 32, 59, 137–8, 157, 172–3, 201, 306
impeachment 65, 223, 275, 305, 306
Interior Secretary 91–2
Iran: nuclear deal 32, 98, 234–5, 252, 253, 255; Straits of Hormuz, attacks tankers in 233–5; Trump administration policy on in disarray xvii–xviii
Iraq war (2003–11) 53, 189, 198, 230–1, 248, 266
ISIS 99, 106, 138, 237, 268
Israel 161, 236, 252–3, 255–7
Jackson, Admiral Ronny 177–8, 182, 184, 188–208
Jackson, Andrew 3–4, 222
Jefferson, Thomas 114, 222
Jerusalem: movement of US embassy from Tel Aviv to (2017) 256; Trump flies direct from Saudi Arabia to (2017) 255
Johnson, Andrew 212, 222–3
Johnson, Boris xi, xx, 237
Johnson, Lady Bird 154
Johnson, Lyndon B. 72, 114, 117, 119, 154, 180, 218–19, 220, 224, 225, 243
Kardashian, Kim 11
Kavanaugh, Brett 128
Kelly, John 15, 25, 26, 51–9, 63–7, 70, 102, 261
Kelly, Robert 53–4
Kennedy, Jacqueline 150–1, 152, 242, 243, 247
Kennedy, John F. xxii, 3, 74, 117, 118, 148, 150, 155, 179–80, 218–21, 224–5, 227, 228, 242–4
Kennedy, Robert 220, 299
Khashoggi, Jamal 253–4
Killimnik, Konstantin 288
Kim Jong-un xxi, 57, 134, 261, 262, 263, 269
Kislyak, Sergey 282, 289
Knauss, Amalija 158
Knauss, Viktor 158
Kurds 106–7, 230, 248, 266
Kushner, Charles 216–17
Kushner, Jared 14, 16–17, 41, 56, 67, 68, 99, 216, 217, 252–3, 287, 295
Lavrov, Sergei 17, 282, 283
Lew, Jack 58
Lewandowski, Corey 91–2
LGBTQ community 213
Lighthizer, Robert 81–2
Lincoln, Abraham 18, 38, 71–2, 146, 148, 222–3
Lincoln Bedroom, White House 2, 146
Linton, Louise 92–3
Lizza, Ryan 50
Loewy, Raymond 242
Louis-Dreyfus, Julia 210
Macron, Emmanuel 8, 204, 205, 207, 259, 271
Major, John 237
Manafort, Paul 286, 288, 293–4
Manhattan Project 223
Mar-a-Lago, Florida 20–1, 158, 167, 238, 240, 241
Marine One 5, 140
Mattis
, General Jim 25, 26, 79, 95, 106–7, 263, 264, 266–8, 269
May, Theresa xi, xii, xvi, xix, xx, 95, 236, 259, 271
McCain, Cindy 63
McCain, Senator John 59–65, 271
McCarthy, Melissa 130
McDonald, Sir Simon xix–xx
McDougal, Karen 123, 162, 168–9, 290
McGahn, Don 293, 295, 299, 301, 302
McIntyre, Ross 179
McKinley, William 211
McMaster, H.R. 19–20, 25, 28
#metoo movement 33
Memories Pizza 213–14
Merkel, Angela 8, 259, 271
Mexican border wall 35–6, 125
Mexico 6, 23, 35, 125, 172
midterm elections, (November 2018) 34–5, 37, 65, 105, 121–2, 137–41, 232, 238
Miller, Stephen 16
Mnuchin, Steve 16, 80, 92–4
Mondale, Walter 225–6, 227, 229
MSNBC 29, 137, 139
Mueller investigation and Report (2017–19) xxiii, 128, 273–306
Mueller, Robert xxiii, 274, 275, 276–7, 278, 282–3, 285, 291, 292, 298, 303, 304–5
Mulvaney, Mick xviii, 7, 69–70, 78
Murdoch, Rupert 134
Muslim travel ban 17, 252
National Archives and Records Administration 231
National Association for the Advancement of the Coloured Person (NAACP) 153
National Defense Strategy 267
National Economic Council (NEC) 16, 23
National Emergency declaration, border (2019) 36–7
National Enquirer 122–3, 168–9
National Security Council (NSC) 226
NATO xi, 249, 257–9, 267, 271
Nauert, Heather 105
Navarro, Peter 23–4, 26
NBC 43, 100, 112, 120, 198, 282
Netanyahu, Benjamin 161, 253, 255, 256–7
Netanyahu, Sarah 161
Newman, Omarosa Manigault 14–15, 18, 147
New York magazine 47, 157
New York Times 28–34, 123–6, 129, 132, 136, 187, 234, 282, 283, 300
New Yorker 50
Nieto, Enrique Pena 6
9/11 40, 74, 184, 230, 244–7, 248; Commission 230
Nixon, Richard 10–11, 25, 39, 58, 73, 118–21, 154, 211, 212, 221, 224, 229, 293, 301
North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, The (NAFTA) 23, 27, 28, 128
North Korea xxi, 260–2, 268–9
NSA (National Security Agency) 269, 280
Oakeshott, Isabel xviii
Obama, Barack 3, 4, 8, 12–13, 16, 17, 21, 58, 59, 62, 66, 68, 83, 88, 89, 95, 111, 112, 113, 126, 131, 138, 147, 149, 161, 177, 182–4, 189, 191, 198, 200, 203, 212, 218, 234, 236, 239, 248, 252, 254, 255, 259, 263, 272, 280, 285
Obama, Michelle 147, 149, 154, 161
Omar, Mullah 248
Oval Office, White House xxiii, 1–37, 38, 48, 54, 56, 73, 104, 109, 117, 126, 140, 209, 232, 234, 238, 281, 282, 299
Palestinians 252–3, 256
Palin, Sarah 212
Panetta, Leon 40
Papadopoulos, George 284–5, 286
Paris climate accords 83
Pearl Harbor, Japanese attacks upon (1941) 74, 230, 243
Pecker, David 123, 168
Pelosi, Nancy 35–6, 232
Pence, Mike 12, 16, 34, 67, 73, 76–7, 96–7, 211, 212–16, 218, 232, 233–5
Pentagon, Washington D.C. 100, 107, 245, 263, 266
Perry, Rick 77
pipe bombs sent to prominent Democrats (2018) 138–9
Playboy 123, 162, 168, 290
Politico 246
Pompeo, Mike 20, 79–80, 101, 257
populism 3, 16, 43, 249–50
Porter, Rob 26–7, 28
Powell, Dina 16, 25
presidential elections: (1796) 222; (1828) 3; (1944) 179; (1960) 118, 219, 221; (1976) 155, 225; (1992) 221; (2016) xiii, 32, 45, 69, 82, 136, 162–3, 167, 168, 185–6, 188, 199–200, 217–18, 249, 280, 282–3, 284, 289, 290–1, 296; (2020) 66, 67, 105, 306
Presley, Elvis 10–11
press/media, Trump relationship with 109–43 see also Trump, Donald
Press Secretary, White House xiv, xv, 13, 29, 49–50, 51, 111–13, 129–30
Price, Tom 78, 88
Priebus, Reince 14, 42–3, 44–52, 54, 55, 80–1, 294–5, 301, 302
Pruitt, Scott 83–8, 107
Putin, Vladimir xii, 1, 269–71, 272, 280
Qatar 98–9, 253
Quayle, Dan 227–8
Queens’ Bedroom, White House 146
Rather, Dan 120
Reagan, Nancy 4
Reagan, Ronald 4, 58, 110, 131
Rebelo de Sousa, Marcelo 9
Religious Freedom Restoration Act (1993) 213–14
Republican National Committee (RNC) 42, 44
Republican National Convention (2016) 199, 287
Republican Party xiii, 16, 22, 24, 35, 42–3, 44, 45, 46, 49, 55, 59, 62, 68, 72, 86, 90, 96, 97, 105, 119, 120, 129, 131, 136, 138, 143, 199, 200, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 218, 221, 222, 226, 228, 229, 234, 238, 247, 271, 276, 287, 306
Residence, The, White House 2, 21, 144–75, 190, 195
Ricardel, Mira 174–5
Rice, Condoleezza 98
Roosevelt, Eleanor 152–3
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano 2, 74, 76, 116, 152, 153, 178–9, 210, 223, 241, 242
Roosevelt, Theodore ‘Teddy’ 2, 115, 116, 121–2, 211, 212
Rosenstein, Rod 128, 275, 282, 283, 297, 298, 299, 301
Rose Garden, White House 2, 58, 73, 128, 147
Ross, Wilbur 79, 95–6
Rumsfeld, Donald 229, 245
Russia xii, 17, 98, 104, 233, 258, 268, 269–72; Mueller report and 275, 279–99, 303
Rutte, Mark 259
Ryan, Paul 19, 43, 48, 271
Salisbury Novichok attack (2018) 271–2
Salman, Mohammed bin 253–4
Sanders, Sarah 29, 30, 32, 34, 141, 147, 187, 269, 297
Saturday Night Live 130
Saudi Arabia 99, 133–4, 161, 236, 252–5
Scaramucci, Anthony ‘the Mooch’ 49–51, 52, 56
Schulder, Bill 216–17
Schulder, Esther 216–17
Schumer, Chuck 35–6, 232
Second World War (1939–45) 74, 116, 223, 230, 241, 248, 249, 251
Secret Service, The 13, 58, 140, 142, 145, 159, 160, 170, 179, 184, 190, 201, 203, 239, 244, 245, 246, 262, 270, 285
segregation 153, 219–20
Senate, U.S. 34–5, 39, 42, 62, 63, 96–7, 128, 180, 181, 202, 204, 205, 206, 222, 223, 230, 232, 288; Judiciary Committee 69, 128; President of 180, 223
Sessions, Jeff 77, 106, 274, 278, 279, 281, 282, 283, 294–5, 298–9
Seward, William H. 72
Shabbat killings (2018) 139
Shulkin, David 80, 89–90, 199–200
Sims, Cliff 17–18; Team of Vipers 18, 19, 65–6
Sinclair Broadcast Group 120
60 Minutes 97, 135
Skeans, Ron 125
Soros, George 138
South Korea 27, 263
‘Southern manifesto’ (1956) 219–20
Spicer, Sean 49–50, 51, 111–13, 129–30
Staff Secretary, President’s 13, 26–7, 28
Stahl, Lesley 134–5
State Department xviii, 98–9, 100, 102, 256
State Dining Room, White House 148–9
Steele Dossier 279–80, 285
Steffans, Lincoln 115
Stevenson, Adlai 211
Stockton, Robert F. 73
Stone, Roger 56
Streep, Meryl 271
Sultzberger, A.G. 124–6
Sun xi, xii
Supreme Court, Washington D.C. xxiii, 72, 128, 219–20
surgery see White House Medical Unit
Syria 106–7, 138, 234, 237, 263–6
Taft, William 2, 147
Taleban 248, 266
tariffs 16, 26, 260
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017) 21–2
Ten O�
�Clock News, BBC vii, 300
Tester, Jon 202–3
Thatcher, Margaret 95, 145
Tillerson, Rex 79, 97–103, 104, 269
Tillman, Colonel Mark 245
Time magazine 47, 155, 198
Trans Pacific Partnership 23
Trudeau, Justin 260, 271
Truman Balcony, White House 146
Truman, Harry 39, 117, 146, 212, 223
Trump, Barron (son) 9, 155, 158–9, 162
Trump, Donald: abortion and 22, 218; Access Hollywood tapes and 43–4, 159–60; Air Force One and 236, 237–8, 240, 247–72; alcohol and 6–7; ‘America First’ rhetoric 104, 247, 251; AT&T-Time Warner merger and 123; Bezos and 121–3; Brexit and xi, xii–xv, xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, xx, xxi, 249; briefings, attitude towards 19–21; Cabinet resignations/turnover and 74, 81–94, 97–108; Cabinet meets for first time 74–82, 103–4; Chiefs of Staff and see Chief of Staff, Office of the; CIA headquarters speech (2017) 17, 111; cognitive abilities 196–8; Commander in Chief role, love of 5–6; Darroch resignation and xvi–xxi; deep state idea and 32–3; Diet Coke, love of 6, 7, 171, 204, 211; eats piece of paper in Oval Office 15; election campaign (2016) xiii, 15, 20–1, 22, 32, 35, 42, 43–6, 53, 56, 61, 69, 84, 133, 155, 159–60, 165, 166, 167, 168–9, 184, 185–6, 199–200, 216, 249, 270, 271, 275, 279, 280, 282, 289, 290, 291, 296; electoral college votes claim 131; ‘enemy of the people’, phrase used to describe the press 120, 141, 143, 214; European leaders, attacks upon 292; ‘executive time’ 126–7; family separations at border and 172–3; falsehoods/lies xii–xv, 113–14, 131, 165–6, 167, 337; first overseas tour (2017) 161, 236, 251–4, 257–8; flip-flops over issues 22; foreign policy 247–72 see also individual nation name; globalisation/free trade and 16, 22–4, 26–7, 249; golf, love of xii, 42, 163, 196, 218; government shutdown (2018–19) and 35–6, 37, 96; G7 summits and 236–7, 259–60; G20 Hamburg summit (2017) 269–70; health/White House physician and 180–1, 184–208; immigration and xiii, 16, 32, 59, 137–8, 172–3; impeachment and 65, 275, 305, 306; inauguration 111–14, 277, 280; instinct, driven by 25, 103, 128, 129, 134–5, 250; JS and xiii–xiv, 30, 131; Kim Jong-un and xxi, 57, 134, 261, 262, 263, 269; leaking/briefing of staff and 17–19, 26, 28–32, 50; Mueller investigation and Report and 273–306; National Emergency declaration, border (2019) 36–7; NATO see NATO; New York Times ‘Anonymous’ op-ed on temperament (2018) 28–34; New York Times, relationship with 123–6; Oval Office, love of 1–2, 3, 4, 5–6; Oval Office, televised meeting with Schumer and Pelosi in 35–6, 232; Oval Office visitors and 5, 7–14; payments to women in relation to sexual affairs 123, 162–9, 290; press/media, relationship with 109–43 see also individual outlet name; private dining room in West Wing and 19, 126, 127, 196; Putin and see Putin, Vladimir; racism and 57; rallies 22, 57, 95, 125, 133, 134, 139, 279, 281, 289; Republican Party and see Republican Party; Residence and 147; ringmaster, as all-powerful 24–5; Salisbury Novichok attack and 271–2; staff factions/power bases 15–19, 23–6, 28–32, 54; staff, treatment of 7; state visit to the UK (2019) xv–xvi, xix, xx, 250–1; Supreme Court and see Supreme Court; tariffs and 16, 26, 260; tax returns 185; television, love of 19, 38, 126–7; Theresa May and see May, Theresa; TV networks and 119–20; 25th Amendment and 31–2, 180–2; Twitter and xiii, xiv, 56–7, 66, 101, 103, 115–16, 122, 126, 134, 136–7, 166, 234, 257, 260, 269, 271, 272, 279, 295; ‘very stable genius’ 29, 197; Vice-President and see Pence, Mike; Vietnam War and 61
