The identity of an anonymous “senior Trump administration official” who has authored a new book that offers a disturbing, behind-the-scenes portrait of Donald Trump has not yet been revealed. The book portrays Trump as, in the words of a Washington Post report on the book, “cruel, inept and a danger to the nation.”
The media and the administration has sought the person’s identity since publication of a New York Times op-ed in September, 2018.
That Times essay also gave a picture of Trump as irrational, unfocused, and incompetent at his job. But in the earlier piece, “Anonymous” says that Trump’s dangerously erratic behavior was restrained by “adults in the room” within his administration.
In the new book to be published November 19 and titled A Warning, the anonymous author has abandoned those comforting assurances, saying that Trump is impossible to control.