Fear: Trump in the White House

as national security advisor to presidential campaign, 46

resignation of, 82, 330

Russia, interview with Woodward on, 60–61

Russian election meddling/collusion/Mueller investigation, 80–82, 169, 170, 173, 198, 327–30, 345, 348, 349, 353, 357

treason, denial of, 82

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), 174

foreign policy. See also specific countries and issues

lack of organizing principle for, 195–96

Pentagon lunch and Tank meeting on, 218–26

personal relationships, Trump’s belief in, 231–32

foreign wars, Trump on, 15, 229–30, 314. See also specific engagements

Fox News, 13, 49, 65, 87–88, 101, 107, 165, 231, 238, 242, 281, 283, 284, 328, 355

Fox News Sunday, 44, 71, 240

Frazier, Kenneth, 247

free trade and free trade agreements. See trade/trade deficits/trade agreements

Freedom Caucus, 43, 201

FSB (Russia), 28, 64

Fuentes, Zach, 285

“full Ginsburg,” 36

Fusion GPS, 327

G20, 179, 207–9

Galleon Group, 355

Gallucci, Robert, 95

Gang of Eight, 29, 62

Gap, 136

Gardner, Cory, 239

Gates, Rick, 348

Gates, Robert, 54

GBU-43/B (Mother of All Bombs or MOAB), 222

Geffen, David, 20

gender reassignment surgery for military personnel, 201–3

General Electric, 248

U.S.S Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), 213

Gergen, David, 164

Germany

American relationship with, 96

Deutsche Bank, Mueller investigation subpoenaing records from, 326

G20 summit in, 207

NATO spending, 76

trade deficit with, 275

Ghani, Ashraf, 126, 309

Ginsburg, William H., 36

Giuliani, Rudy, 4, 12, 13, 32, 33, 34, 36–37, 38

globalists and globalism, 51, 134, 143, 192, 220, 254, 278, 334, 335

Gold Star families, 73–75

Goldman Sachs, xvii, 26, 36, 41, 55, 135, 208, 234, 275, 290, 291

golf and golfing, 12, 13, 30, 106, 140, 166, 195, 238, 246, 249, 299, 316, 318, 320–21, 339

Gore, Al, 190

Gorsuch, Neil, 204

Graham, Lindsey

on Afghanistan War, 121–22, 123, 126–28, 259, 316

Biden on, 99

cell phone number given out by Trump, 100, 101

on Charlottesville, 240

on immigration, 185–88, 317–21

on libel laws, 318–19

on North Korea, 99–105, 281–82, 302

on removing U.S. dependents from South Korea, 302

on Sessions, 215

on Syrian air strike, 151–52

Trump calling, without going through Kelly, 286

Trump praised by, 316–17, 318–19

Grassley, Chuck, 295

Gray, C. Boyden, 76, 77, 78

Great Britain. See United Kingdom

Great Recession (financial crisis of 2008), 137, 293

Green Room (White House), 317

Greenspan, Alan, 233

Gridiron Dinner, 175–76

Gulf Cooperation Council, 114

Gulf War, 77, 117

The Guns of August (Tuchman), 280

Haberman, Maggie, 356

Haiti, 320, 321

Haley, Nikki, 179

“hammerheads,” 33

Handelsblatt, 326

Hanoi Hilton, 77

Haqqani Network, in Pakistan, 258

Harvey, Derek, 108–14, 147–48, 151, 154

Harward, Bob, 51–52

Hatch, Orrin, 239, 291, 293, 294

Heller, Dean, 295

Hezbollah, 54, 109–10, 113, 154, 229

Hicks, Hope, 20, 66, 165, 206, 252, 265, 270, 338, 356

“the hidden Trump voter,” 24–25

Hijazi, Aya, 324

Hiroshima, 181

Hitler, 239

Holbrooke, Richard, 127

Holder, Eric, 213

Holt, Lester, 164

Hoover, Herbert, 233

Hoover, J. Edgar, 63, 71

House Ethics Committee, 170

House of Broken Toys

Afghanistan as, 314

Iraqi Operations Group as, 182, 183

Huckabee Sanders, Sarah, 202–3, 241

human trafficking, 104–5

Hussein, Saddam, 65, 181–82, 185

Hwasong-14 (North Korean ICBM), 178

ICBMs (Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles), xviii, 60, 178–80, 230, 279, 302

ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) union, 283

Ignatius, David, 153

immigration

Australian refugee agreement, 207

border security, 320, 342

chain immigration (family reunification policy), 186–87, 268, 321

Cohn on U.S. as immigration center, 56

diversity lottery, 321

Dreamers and DACA, 185–88, 267, 285, 317, 318, 319, 321

Graham on, 185–88, 317–21

Mexicans called “rapists” by Trump, 11

Muslim ban, 100

Nielsen on, 284

possible deal on, 317–23

in presidential campaign, 15

“shithole countries” remark, 320–21

strategy on, 217

Trump’s rhyming snake story on, 322–23

wall, 175–76, 186, 284, 285, 317, 322, 323

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) union, 283

impeachment

of Bill Clinton, 181

Trump and Comey firing, 164–65

Trump and Mueller investigation, 355–56

India

Afghanistan and, 121, 125, 127

Modi and Trump, 125, 146

Pakistan, as counterweight to, 146

inflation, 57, 58

Instagram, 206

Intel, 247

intellectual property violations by China, 272–73, 336, 337

intelligence community. See also specific agencies

on chemical weapons in Syria, 147

North Korean nuclear proliferation, secretiveness about, 177–81

Russia, first Trump briefing on, 62–71

on Saudis, 111–12

Trump’s war with, 65, 68, 71

Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), xviii, 60, 178–80, 230, 279, 302

The Interview (film), 98

inversion (relocation of corporation’s legal home to low-tax company), 57–58, 289

Iran

Bolton on, 87

cyber wars with, 339

European trade with, 221, 223

Harvey and Kushner on, 109, 111, 113, 114

Hezbollah and, 109, 154

Iraq and, 182, 209

Mattis and, 50, 52–54, 83

National Security Strategy and, 298, 300

nuclear deal with, 111, 129–33, 221–23

Syria and, 154