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. The Trump Tapes is the intimate and astonishing audio archive of Bob Woodward’s 20 interviews with Donald Trump.įeaturing more than eight hours of Woodward/Trump conversations, The Trump Tapes is as historically important as the Frost/Nixon interviews. 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 As I listened to them again I was stunned by their relevance to understanding Trump. I decided to take this unusual step of releasing these recordings after relistening in full to all 20 interviews. I had also interviewed him in 2016 when he was a presidential candidate. In the fall of 2019 through August 2020, I interviewed President Trump 19 times for my second book on his presidency, Rage. He was largely disconnected from the needs and leadership expectations of the public and his absolute self-focus became the presidency.“I’m doing something here that I’ve never done before, presenting the lengthy, raw interviews of my work. He continued: 'When you listen to him on the range of issues from foreign policy to the virus to racial injustice, it's clear he did not know what to do. Trump is an unparalleled danger,' Woodward wrote.

'Two years later, I realize I didn't go far enough. Woodward now says his assessment of Trump did not accurately describe the former president. In an op-ed for the Washington Post released Sunday, which includes previously unreleased snippets of 'The Trump Tapes,' Woodward wrote that he had concluded his 2020 book on Trump by calling him 'the wrong man for the job.' 25, is an audiobook of previously unreleased conversations between the veteran journalist and the businessman-turned-politician. 'The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Trump,' set to be released Oct. Woodward previously described the former president as the 'wrong man' for the presidency.īut 'Trump is an unparalleled danger,' Woodward wrote on Sunday in the Washington Post.Īhead of the release of his never-before-heard audio interviews with former President Donald Trump, Watergate journalist Bob Woodward wrote that after listening to the unreleased tapes again, he concluded that Trump was an 'unparalleled danger' rather than just the 'wrong man' to be president.

Plowman/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images and Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Imagesīob Woodward said he changed his mind about Trump after re-listening to his own interviews. Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward and former President Donald Trump.

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