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Summary of A Very Stable Genius 

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Ever wondered how the POTUS makes some decisions? What are the consequences of the policies established by world leaders like the POTUS? This book is intended to disclose how Donald J. Trump manages all the affairs and administration in the White House, how he makes some decisions regarding foreign and domestic policies, and how he was known to be dangerously uninformed about the basics of geography. Philp Rucker has been an author, reporter, and Bureau Chief at The Washington Post since 2005. He covered the 2016 successful presidential campaign of Donald Trump and currently covers the Trump administration for the Post. He is highly respected as a journalist in the whole of Washington, D.C. Carol Leonning is an investigative journalist in America, who has been a writer for The Washington Post since 2000, and also a part of the national security reporters who were privileged to win the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

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Trump’s belief in himself is not as a result of pride, but as a result of his misunderstanding of how the presidency works

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“I alone can fix it, I will be your champion, I am your voice, nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.”

Those were the words said by Donald J. Trump when he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in Cleveland, on the 21st of July, 2016. He spoke more than four thousand words that day, but clearly, only these five would soon become the opinion by which he would lead the nation, “I alone can fix it.” He offered himself to the American people as their only hope for restoration and redemption. It would be all too easy to mistake Trump’s first term for pure, uninhibited chaos — his presidency would be powered by solipsism and several alleged scandals. From the moment Trump swore an oath to defend the Constitution and commit to serving the nation, he indirectly mentioned that he would primarily protect and promote himself. Yet, while he lived day to day, struggling to survive, surfing news cycles to stay afloat, there was a pattern and meaning to the disorder.

President Trump was the indefatigable pugilist for MAGA (Make America Great Again) nation. He was unconcerned as to carefully selecting a group of leaders to help him administrate.
Trump believed that he could run the U.S. government the way he led his real estate development company: from a corner suite on the 26 floor of Trump Tower.
His instincts were to take advantage of any opportunity that comes his way and cut down competitors, but as he later found out, this was not as easy as he thought. As Trump often reminded his critics, he has been a president like no other; he has challenged the rule of law and jolted foreign alliances, disregarding seventy years of relations with other democracies while encouraging dictators and autocrats.

Many close observers of Trump saw his so-called genius as far more destabilizing. One of them was Peter Wehner, who served in the Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush administrations.

Did you know? An early and outspoken critic of Trump’s, Peter Wehner, was one of the first Republicans to warn, publicly, about his psychological inability to be President.
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Trump's decision to choose close friends over competent people opened up his administration to a lot of scandals.

On the 9th of November, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump began to staff his administration even though he wasn’t entirely sure he would win — he was unprepared. Trump prioritized loyalty above all, and so, instinctively, he and his family knew whom to knight first — Michael Flynn. During the campaign, Flynn was one of the few men who were willing to promote Trump. Flynn made himself indispensable to Trump, telling him that he could not trust most of the intelligence officials but that Trump could trust him. He was crafty enough to establish a relationship with Trump’s family too, including Jared Kushner, the candidate’s son-in-law.
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Trump’s stained credentials made it very difficult for him to get a lawyer to represent him

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Trump’s insecurities were not enough to sway his belief that he was the right man Americans needed

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The credibility that made Kelly such an asset in Trump’s White House was now tainted by his work in the Porter saga

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The calculated effort of Donald Trump in securing the Senate remains one of the biggest achievements of his political career

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Among all the Republicans in Washington, Mark Meadows was one of those whose advice the President truly valued and sought out most consistently

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Loyalty and betrayal are two sides of a coin in affairs concerning the leadership of a country

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