Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse : a field guide to the most dangerous people in America / John Nichols.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nichols, John, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trump, Donald, 1946-.

Trump, Donald.

Politics and government.

United States--Politics and government--2009-2017--Miscellanea.

United States.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch.

United States--Politics and government--2009---Miscellanea.

Local Subjects:

Trump, Donald, 1946-.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch.

United States--Politics and government--2009---Miscellanea.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Physical Description:

xv, 366 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First trade paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nation Books, 2017.

Summary:

"A line-up of the dirty dealers and defenders of the indefensible who are definitely not "making America great again." Donald Trump has assembled a rogue's gallery of alt-right hatemongers, crony capitalists, immigrant bashers, and climate-change deniers to run the American government. To survive the next four years, we the people need to know whose hands are on the levers of power. And we need to know how to challenge their abuses. John Nichols, veteran political correspondent at the Nation, has been covering many of these deplorables for decades. Sticking to the hard facts and unafraid to dig deep into the histories and ideologies of the people who make up Trump's inner circle, Nichols delivers a clear-eyed and complete guide to this wrecking-crew administration"--Amazon.com.

Donald Trump has assembled a rogue's gallery of alt-right hatemongers, crony capitalists, immigrant bashers, and climate-change deniers to run the American government. To survive the next four years, we the people need to know whose hands are on the levers of power-- and how to challenge their abuses. Nichols has been covering many of these deplorables for decades, and now he digs deep into the histories and ideologies of the people who make up Trump's inner circle.

Contents:

Betsy DeVos and the malice domestic: an introduction to the Trumpocalypse

Part 1. Wicked messengers

The investors: Robert and Rebekah Mercer

The Jacksonian Democrat: Stephen Bannon, White House Senior Strategist

ousted August 2017

The spinster: Kellyanne Conway, White House Counselor

He who will not be questioned: Stephen Miller, Senior Advisor to the President

The Jihad-whisperer with the anti-semitism badge: Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to the President

The leopard that did not change his spots: Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, Attorney General of the United States

The lawman who forgot which side he was on: Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General

"The King of voter suppression": Kris Kobach, Vice Chair of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity

Part 2. Generals and CEOs searching for monsters to destroy

The "Mad Dog": General James Mattis (ret.), Secretary of Defense

The Deputy Secretary for Boeing: Patrick Shanahan, Deputy Secretary of Defense Designee

Director of the Office of the military-industrial complex: Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of Management and Budget

The absolutist: Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, National Security Advisor

The Koch brother: Mike Pompeo, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

The U.S. Ambassador to the American anti-choice movement: Nikki Haley, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations

"Part and parcel of an organized army of hatred": David Friedman, U.S. Ambassador to Israel

With the Russians, too?: Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce

The fossil-fuel-powered dollar diplomat: Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State

Part 3. The hacks

Secretariat stumbling: Reince Priebus, Which House Chief of Staff

ousted July 2017

Spicerfacts: Sean Spicer, White House Press Secretary

resigned July 2017

The Trumplican: Omarosa Manigault, Assistant to the President

The hypocrite who made his Party of Lincoln the Party of Trump: Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader

Party boy: Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House

Complicit: Ivanka Trump, First Daughter, and Jared Kushner, First Son-in-law

The Secretary of Trump Is Always Right: John Kelly, Secretary of Homeland Security

The captain of the wrecking crew: Alexander Acosta, Labor Secretary

Putt-head: Andrew Giuliani, Associate Director for the Office of Public Liaison

The product of a judicial coup: Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

Donald Trump's very own Milhous: Mike Pence, Vice President of the United States

Part 4. Privateers

"I've got a bridge to sell you": Elaine Chao, Secretary of Transportation

The kingfish of the quagmire: Tom Price, Secretary of Health and Human Services

The health care profiteer: Seema Verma, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

The investor who got a high return: Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education

Mr. Secrets and lies: Scott Pruitt, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator

Pristine wilderness for sale, lease, or hire: Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior

Mars Incorporated: Newt Gingrich and Robert Walker, Trump space advisors

The secretary of gentrification: Dr. Ben Carson, Secretary of House and Urban Development

The oopsing of nuclear waste disposal: Rick Perry, Secretary of Energy

The secretary of corporate agribusiness: Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture

The weed whacker: Ajit Pai, Federal Communications Commission Chairman

The foreclosure king: Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury

The fox guarding the henhouse: Jay Clayton, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission

Swimming in the government Sachs Swamp: Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council

Afterword: Averting the Trumpocalypse.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-353) and index.

ISBN:

9781568587806

1568587805

OCLC:

973918809