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    Everything Trump Touches Dies
    Everything Trump Touches Dies
    Everything Trump Touches Dies
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    Everything Trump Touches Dies

    Written by Rick Wilson

    Narrated by Rick Wilson

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    From Rick Wilson—longtime Republican strategist, political commentator, Daily Beast contributor—the #1 New York Times bestseller about the disease that is destroying the conservative movement and burning down the GOP: Trumpism.

    Includes an all-new chapter analyzing Trump’s impact on the 2018 elections.

    In the #1 New York Times bestselling Everything Trump Touches Dies, political campaign strategist and commentator Rick Wilson delivers “a searingly honest, bitingly funny, comprehensive answer to the question we find ourselves asking most mornings: ‘What the hell is going on?’ (Chicago Tribune). The Guardian hails Everything Trump Touches Dies, saying it gives, “more unvarnished truths about Donald Trump than anyone else in the American political establishment has offered. Wilson never holds back.” Rick mercilessly exposes the damage Trump has done to the country, to the Republican Party, and to the conservative movement that has abandoned its principles for the worst President in American history.

    Wilson unblinkingly dismantles Trump’s deceptions and the illusions to which his supporters cling, shedding light on the guilty parties who empower and enable Trump in Washington and in the media. He calls out the race-war dead-enders who hitched a ride with Trump, the alt-right basement dwellers who worship him, and the social conservatives who looked the other way. Publishers Weekly calls it, “a scathing, profane, unflinching, and laugh-out-loud funny rebuke of Donald Trump and his presidency.”

    No left-winger, Wilson is a lifelong conservative who delivers his withering critique of Trump from the right. A leader of the Never Trump movement, he warned from the start that Trump would destroy the lives and reputations of everyone in his orbit, and Everything Trump Touches Dies is a deft chronicle the tragicomic political story of our time. From the early campaign days through the shock of election night, to the inconceivable train-wreck of Trump’s first year. Rick Wilson provides not only an insightful analysis of the Trump administration, but also an optimistic path forward for the GOP, the conservative movement, and the country.

    “Hilarious, smartly written, and usually spot-on” (Kirkus Reviews), Everything Trump Touches Dies is perfect for those on either side of the aisle who need a dose of unvarnished reality, a good laugh, a strong cocktail, and a return to sanity in American politics.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateAug 7, 2018
    ISBN9781508265412
    Everything Trump Touches Dies
    Author

    Rick Wilson

    Rick Wilson grew up in the same small-town street where David Buick, founder of the Buick car company, was born. As a journalist he has worked not just on daily newspapers in London's Fleet Street but also in The Netherlands and his native Scotland as a magazine editor.

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    • 5/5
      I was going to give it a 4 star, 4 for love of his views of the subjects, but minus one for his tone and aggressiveness. While I agree, my concern is, no one but Trump haters would listen given his tone, write him off as “part of the mob”. But the last chapter caused me to go to 5, the message of keeping our democracy was so clear and compelling. I love his humor, he is on TV and just as witty there. You have to stop chuckling and listen to his message, hard when laughing. I love this guy, wish he could be heard on both sides. I doubt it will happen except when he and I are both dead, then history will find the book a clear picture of how bad politics and Trump is.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      He knows his stuff...makes a terribly serious “subject “ and situation much easier to digest with his incredible humor. Great read.. Thanks, Rick.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This was informative and fun to listen to. Rick Wilson- there are many of us who feel and always have felt Trump is a liar and a prick. Best listen since “Fear”, also a eye opener.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      As a “liberal” of the moderate persuasion, it’s good for me to hear Rick Wilson lay out true conservative principles, however snarkily I understand the great compromise that has always been America better and the urgent need to protect it. We on both sides love our country, and that makes us on one side. And Wilson is a good writer with a feel for metaphor.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I loved this book! This was such an enjoyable read I finished it in one nonstop sitting. Entertaining, factual, and lots of inside info.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Very important read for 2018 America. Not just for conservatives.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The author’s narration superbly expresses the disgust most of us feel towards the Orange Abomination in the white. Great writing. A witty catharsis

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Beyond expectations. Funny, witty and right on! I loved it

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    • 5/5
      Interesting mix of humor and intellect. Enjoyed it all the way through.

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    • 4/5
      Very well written with a great cast of characters.
      Makes you feel you know them all.

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    • 5/5
      Rick tells it like it is! I choose to share his optimism as to whom we really are as Americans.

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    • 5/5
      Writing style was is a Everyman voice.
      Fun to read

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    • 2/5
      Trump is not a polished speaker. His name calling etc. is disgusting. The writer has surpassed this by far. This type of language shows his level of incompetence. His choice of adjectives on adjectives makes it hard to even listen. Hard to believe he is a republican.
    • 1/5
      Absolutely horrible. 39 chapters of playing the victim, whining, and blaming Trump. Whoever wrote this has no knowledge on business, the economy, or politics.
    • 1/5
      Obviously a victim of TDS. Sad these people are so blind to their need to hate and blame the messenger.
    • 1/5
      This guy is just another reminder of what a happy home for jerks Republican Party has become. I couldn't get past his description of Chris Christie which was - - get ready - - built around calling Christie fat. Grow up.
    • 4/5
      No question that Wilson has a way with words, especially of the derogatory kind. But in between the quips, is a serious examination of how Trump has moved the traditional GOP completely off its conservative philosophy roots. He has little respect for the new GOP, a sycophantic oleaginous breed (to quote George Will) that thinks of nothing but collecting as much money for themselves and getting reelected.They have apparently bought into the Trump way of doing business: borrow as much money as possible then stiff the contractors and workers, default on the loans, skim as much as possible, repeat infinitely. He thought he could do that in office. We have now learned from Rex Tillerson that the legality of a policy was irrelevant. Trump would just fire and replace with someone with fewer scruples. And then call the former names. Tillerson remarked about Trump, "It was challenging for me, coming from the disciplined, highly process-oriented Exxon Mobil Corporation, to go to work for a man who is pretty undisciplined, doesn't like to read, doesn't read briefing reports, doesn't like to get into the details of a lot things." Trump bragged about being a non-reader and being undisciplined. Some of the more juicy quotes:“Everything about Trump’s opening speech was moral poison to anyone who believed in any part of the American dream. Everything about his nationalist hucksterism smelled like … a knock on the door of authoritarian statism.”The right is “merrily on board with a lunatic with delusions of godhood”.“There’s an odds-on chance that our grandchildren will hear this tale while hunched over guttering fires in the ruins of a radioactive Mad Max-style hellscape.” One can only hope Wilson is not prescient.“All the things evangelicals had said for generations that made a candidate anathema were suddenly just fine … Being a goddamned degenerate pussy-grabber with a lifetime of adultery, venality, and dishonesty is not, to my knowledge, one of the core tenets of the Christian faith … Trump has opened entirely new theological avenues … There is literally not one aspect of Trump’s behavior as a citizen, a husband, and as a man that shows the slightest scintilla of repentance for anything, ever.”The tax bill was a masterwork of “gigantic government giveaways, unfunded spending, massive debt and deficits, and a catalogue of crony capitalist freebies”.Trump's far-flung empire of bullshit makes the Teapot Dome scandal look like a warm-up act in the Corruption Olympics. Trump has surrounded himself with Wall Street alumni “who have behaved with weapons-grade venality … and Master of the Dick affects. They were there … only for the tax bill. Nothing else ever mattered to any of them.”The Trump administration has been “a hotbed of remarkably obvious pay-to-play and crony capitalist game-playing. How obvious? Think 1970s Times Square hooker on the corner obvious … The degree to which this president has monetized the presidency for the direct benefit of himself, his soft-jawed offspring, and his far-flung empire of bullshit makes the Teapot Dome scandal look like a warm-up act in the Corruption Olympics.”The presidency “hasn’t been an endless exercise in self-fellation, until now”.Wilson is sure the reason why Trump is so reluctant to release his taxes is that it will reveal numerous instances of "loans" that were really income received from Russian oligarchs through shell companies with no expectation they woujld ever be paid back. Paul Manafort got in serious trouble for the same shenanigans. It has a name: tax fraud.The question now (read just after the Capitol insurrection) is whether the thing that dies will be the GOP.
    • 2/5
      Full disclosure: I am not a republican, nor am I a fan of Rick Wilson's political/personal attack campaign strategies. I did, however, think it would be interesting to see the Trump Issue from a lifelong republican insider perspective.To say I'm disappointed is a whopping understatement.A postive to start with: Wilson has an entertaining, easily accessible writing style, with occasional moments of real humor. I was especially interested in the opening chapters, as we see how and why Trump, a grumpy reality TV star with terrible business sense, made it to the highest office in our country.Now, what I disliked: Rick Wilson is as adept at name-calling and bullying as Trump is. We have a steady barrage of insults throughout the book. I found the childish name-calling excessive, and I thought the juvenile approach trivialized the seriousness of the subject matter. Wilson includes a section directed at democrats. Here, I was hoping for a grownup to step in and help bridge this ever-growing party divide. But no, Wilson instead lumped all democrats into the stupid libtard category, overgeneralizing concepts and mostly saying we should all be republicans. Then we get to the section on racism, where he dumps the current crisis solely in the lap of Trump and the alt-right. He clearly worships the republican party, effectively freeing them all of any association with racist views over the years. Also, every single republican president prior to Trump was perfect, and every democratic president only managed to not screw things up because republicans held them in check. C'mon.So, while I did manage to read this book, I had to take frequent breaks because this author makes me almost as angry as one of Trump's tweets. If his intent was to help Trump polarize the country, he succeeded.
    • 5/5
      A hilarious extended exercise in invective by a conservative operative who drew the line at supporting Trump. He takes on anyone and everyone—though the one target he doesn’t aim at much is Russia.

      This liberal enjoyed reading it.
    • 5/5
      This is one of many books written by people who are vehemently opposed to Donald Trump and his fascist tendencies. What makes this book even more impressive is that Rick Wilson was a prominent Republican strategist and is still a staunch conservative.I found the writing to be entertaining, intellectual, factual and well-documented. The author's humor shines through at unexpected times and adds to the readability. But he hates Trump and his reasons are made clear.The one area of concern is the timing. This book was written as the Mueller investigation was reaching a climax, and Wilson had some hope that the results of that investigation would bring Trump's faults and crimes into full public view. Instead, it allowed the Senate majority to skate over the subsequent impeachment by the House, and the Trump trail lumbers onward into the current crisis over the COVID-19 virus pandemic.The book is good enough that I have ordered his next book "Running Against the Devil."
    • 4/5
      Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever by Rick Wilson is a book I picked up from the library. Wow, this guy pulls no punches! He is a Republican himself! He knows we Dems have the saying " When they go low, we go high". He is a Republican and their motto is "Kick them even harder when they fall"...so this book was great! It was like Batman taking on Joker and his gang of idiots...lol! I almost could see the "POW" or "BOOM" after each snarky but appropriate hit! Clever and witty he mopped up tRump and the flimsy excuse for Congress backing he has. The GOP (I call G-Grumpy O-old P-Pricks) gets blasted by the author, and I remind you this is a big wig Republican! I didn't agree with everything but I enjoyed enough to give home a 4 star on this book for the witt , cleverness, and for standing up to the orange buffoon which no one in the Authoritarian Party (previously known as Republican party) has done!
    • 3/5
      Wow, Rick Wilson, bitter much? LOL! With acerbic wit and humor, the longtime Republican strategist rips into the so-called Trump presidency, flogs Trump's enablers (Ryan, McConnell, et al) and pounds the cretins (Bannon, Milo, Miller, basement-dwellers, et al). He bemoans the downfall of his beloved party and his brand of conservatism, then wraps with what needs to happen next in order to remove the stench if the Republicans are to be saved. Democrats and liberals get a skewering, too, but his main animus is against all things Trumpy. Anti-Trumpers will read for the cathartic benefits although much of what Wilson addresses has been well-covered in the news. It's hilarious and snarly and he makes his case but after a while it can weary because you know, Trump.
    • 5/5
      First, I am not a conservative Republican like Rick Wilson. However, after seeing him on various news shows and reading this book, I adore and respect this man. His views on Trump are right on the mark, but I won't give anything away, except to say if you are a voter who wants to be educated on our political system, read this book! Second, who knew how funny this book could be? I found myself laughing out loud so many times while immersed in this book. Wilson is simply awesome!
    • 5/5
      This book, written by a long-time Republican strategist, may surprise people used to thinking of Republicans such as Donald Trump, Mike Pence, or Paul Ryan. Like Mike Lofgren, who wrote The Party's Over : How Republicans went Crazy, Democrats became Useless, and the Middle Class got Shafted, Wilson doesn't think that many of the Republican leaders are true Conservatives: more like right wing-nuts. Rick Wilson was a leader of the Never Trump movement. Where Lofgren's book was a sober and impressive analysis, Rick Wilson's book is both biting and wickedly funny. He doesn't pull too many punches. As some one who hasn't voted for a Republican in decades, I am surprised to find that I agree with Wilson on a lot of points -- oh for the days of moderate Republicans. Of course, Wilson seems to like Reagan, and his administration was the cause of my switching from registered Republican to Independent, and eventually to Democrat, so I suspect we'd have a lot of disagreements, too. (For county and state offices, the Democratic primary in Maryland pretty much is the election, although they received a much-needed kick in the teeth in 2014.) I suspect that devout Democrats may be unhappy with his unapologetic conservatism, not to mention what Trumpets will think, but those of us more in the middle with an appreciation for generally well-aimed caustic wit, I'd give it a try.There are two caveats I have about this book, hence the half-star taken off. The author is sometimes obscene or scatological. In the first place, I don't like that kind of language myself, and in the second place, if I read something witty or funny, I want to be able to repeat it to anyone. The other thing is that it sometimes gets a bit ad hominem for my taste. That may sound like an odd thing to sat when I loved so much of the scathing humor, but I like it to be about something real and important, not just miscellaneous insults about irrelevancies.