{"id":22470,"date":"2018-01-15T11:54:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T10:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22470"},"modified":"2018-01-15T11:54:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T10:54:49","slug":"michael-wolff-on-donald-trump-in-guardian-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22470","title":{"rendered":"Michael Wolff on Donald Trump in &#8220;Guardian&#8221; interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if the president is clinically off his rocker. I do know, from what I saw and what I heard from people around him, that Donald Trump is deeply unpredictable, irrational, at times bordering on incoherent, self-obsessed in a disconcerting way, and displays all those kinds of traits that anyone would reasonably say, \u2018What\u2019s going on here, is something wrong?\u2019\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got to a truth that no one else had gotten to, not that they didn\u2019t know it. Everyone around Trump thinks he\u2019s a charlatan, a fool, an idiot and someone ultimately not capable of functioning in this job.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis experiment happened. Let\u2019s make someone president who is different and in every way the exact opposite of everything we think a president is and should be. That was the experiment.\u00a0The positive here is people have realized the experiment has been a failure \u2013 even a great number of people who voted for him.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Extracts from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/14\/michael-wolff-interview-fire-and-fury-donald-trump\">an interview<\/a> in today&#8217;s &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper with Michael Wolff, the author of <em>&#8220;Fire And Fury: Inside The Trump White House&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if the president is clinically off his rocker. I do know, from what I saw and what I heard from people around him, that Donald Trump is deeply unpredictable, irrational, at times bordering on incoherent, self-obsessed in a disconcerting way, and displays all those kinds of traits that anyone would reasonably say, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22470"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22474,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22470\/revisions\/22474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}