Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
by Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan
View on GoodreadsPicture a classified defense meeting derailed by someone arriving with stone samples for the Rose Garden. Haberman and Swan build the second Trump term from more than 1,000 interviews, and you find a far more loyal inner circle, unstructured meetings, and senior officials cut out of decisions as big as war with Iran.
Core ideas
- Emboldened, not chastened: Surviving indictments, convictions and assassination attempts made Trump readier to take risks, like the Liberation Day tariffs he backed off only under bond-market stress.
- An office for other ends: The Justice Department pursues the president's political opponents, and the presidency gets used to serve financial interests.
- Measured against dictators: Trump showed the authors a document ranking him with Mao, Stalin and Genghis Khan purely on projection of power.
Published2026
Pages480
ISBN9781668067246
ReadJul 2026
