STORY OF POWER, PALACE INTRIGUE

TEAM OF VIPERS – MY 500 EXTRAORDINARY DAYS IN THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE CLIFF SIMS

St Martin’s Press Review: Staff Reporter

THE writer describes how he joined President Trump as special assistant and director of White House Message Strategy.

There he soon found himself pulled into the president’s inner circle as a confidant, an errand boy, an adviser, a punching bag and a friend. Sometimes all in the same conversation.

He saw how Trump handled the challenges of the office, and learnt from Trump himself how he saw the world. For 500 days, Sims was also privy to the infighting, the anger, the joy and the recriminations.

He had a role in some of the president’s biggest successes, and shared the blame for some of the worst disasters.

Sims gained key 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 compile his list of enemies, knowing who was loyal and who was not.

He took hundreds of pages of notes in real-time and tells the story that no one else has written – the story of power and palace intrigue, the backstabbing and bold victories, as well as painful moral compromises.