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Team of Vipers

My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House

Audiobook
20 of 20 copies available
20 of 20 copies available

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Note: Per author's request, profanity has been removed from both the book and the audio program.
"Sims's vivid portrait of Trump shrewdly balances admiration with misgivings, and his intricate, engrossing accounts of White House vendettas and power plays have a good mix of immersion and perspective. The result is one of the best of the recent flood of Trump tell-alls." —Publishers Weekly
The first honest insider's account of the Trump administration. If you hate Trump you need the truth; if you love Trump you need the truth.
After standing at Donald Trump's side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy.
He soon found himself pulled into the President's inner circle as a confidante, an errand boy, an advisor, a punching bag, and a friend. Sometimes all in the same conversation.
As a result, Sims gained unprecedented access to the President, sitting in on private meetings with key Congressional officials, world leaders, and top White House advisors. He saw how Trump handled the challenges of the office, and he learned from Trump himself how he saw the world.
For five hundred days, Sims also witnessed first-hand the infighting and leaking, the anger, joy, and recriminations. He had a role in some of the President's biggest successes, and he shared the blame for some of his administration's worst disasters. He gained key, often surprising insights into the players of the Trump West Wing, from Jared Kushner and John Kelly to Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway.
He even helped Trump craft his enemies list, knowing who was loyal and who was not.
And he took notes. Hundreds of pages of notes. In real-time.
Sims stood with the President in the eye of the storm raging around him, and now he tells the story that no one else has written—because no one else could. The story of what it was really like in the West Wing as a member of the President's team. The story of power and palace intrigue, backstabbing and bold victories, as well as painful moral compromises, occasionally with yourself.
Team of Vipers tells the full story, as only a true insider could.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 4, 2019
      According to this savvy, entertaining insiderâs memoir, the Trump administration is, as advertised, a snake pit of betrayal and backstabbing. Sims, the ex-director of White House message strategy, worked closely with President Trump and had access to behind-closed-doors political dramas and up-close views of Trumpâs magnetic personality and not-always-rational preoccupations. (On his first day, Sims drafted aâpatently untrue, he later learnedâPR case asserting that Trumpâs inaugural crowd was bigger than Obamaâs.) He paints the West Wing as âGame of Thrones, but with the characters from Veep,â with staffers jockeying for status through disruptive leaks, undermining rumors, and poisonous accusations. Simsâs evangelical moral qualms left him fretting that he was âforfeit his own soulâ by participating in such intrigues, but he nonetheless revels in venomous sketches of rivals such as communications director Anthony Scaramucci (âdrunk on the attention and adulationâ), spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway (âa cartoon villain brought to lifeâ), and chief of staff John Kelly (âvindictive, unhinged,â and âfully consumed by the darknessâ). Simsâs vivid portrait of Trump shrewdly balances admiration with misgivings, and his intricate, engrossing accounts of White House vendettas and power plays have a good mix of immersion and perspective. The result is one of the best of the recent flood of Trump tell-alls. Photos.

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