Yet, at a rally in New Hampshire two weeks later, Trump said, "Looks like by April, you know in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away. O'Brien: "I think the exact phrase I used was, 'This will be the biggest national security threat you face in your presidency.' I was pretty passionate about it." What Woodward called one of the most stunning moments of his 50 years of reporting was learning that on January 28, 2020, just days after the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in the United States, Trump's national security adviser Robert O'Brien had given him a grave warning: Want to know something? Everything is mine."īut a presidency based on personality was overmatched by COVID-19. Trump: "I get people, they come up with ideas. One theme runs throughout all eight hours of tape: Trump thought the presidency was a one-man show And, of course, it would be unthinkable." Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward. "Because Trump said it in a way of, 'If he shoots,' you know, kind of cavalier. And if he shoots, he shoots."ĭickerson asked, "He says about the North Korean leader, 'If he shoots, he shoots.' How did you react to that?" Trump: "That doesn't – let me tell you, whether I gave it to him or not, if he shoots, he shoots.
Woodward: "Because if he's defiant, if he shoots one of those ICBMs. Woodward: "Have you given Kim too much power?" I called you Rocket Man.' He goes, 'You called me Little Rocket Man!'" Trump: "I said, 'Did you ever hear of the song "Rocket Man"?' He said, 'No, no.' 'Did you ever hear of Elton John?' 'No, no.' I said, 'I did you a great favor. Okay? We had very good chemistry together." You meet a woman, in one second, you know whether or not it's all going to happen. You meet somebody and you have a good chemistry, and there is a lot of truth to it. It's clearly a relationship he cherishes: Trump's tone of voice offers insight into why he may have kept totems from his presidency at Mar-a-Lago, like the letters from North Korea's Kim Jong-un. Woodward has written about the calls, but hearing Trump in his own voice, he believes, is enlightening: "I've reported on this in the book I did, 'Rage.' But I then went back and listened to these tapes and said, 'My God, there is a whole new Trump that emerges.'" But what did he do in the presidency? And having the time, I could go back and ask questions, again and again." Woodward told CBS News' John Dickerson, "In many ways it's the missing piece of the Trump story.
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