Washington Associate Editor Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book on President Trump will contain nuggets from more than two dozen letters between President and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, according to publisher Simon & Schuster.
“Rage,” scheduled to be released Sept. 15, less than two months before the U.S. presidential election in November, will also include “exclusive” interviews with the president.
Woodward did not interview Trump for his first book on the current administration, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” which was published in 2018.
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“Woodward received 25 personal letters exchanged between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un that were not previously public,” Simon & Schuster wrote on their website. “Kim describes the bond between the two leaders as from a ‘fantasy film’, because the two leaders participate in an extraordinary diplomatic minute.”
Journalist and author Bob Woodward speaks in Washington, June 11, 2012. (Associated Press)
Trump has called Kim’s letters ‘wonderful’.
“These are great letters,” Trump said at a rally in 2018. “We are in love.”
The president told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham in January that he was being interviewed by Woodward, whom he called a “very, very good writer, reporter” for the book.
President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appear in Hanoi, Vietnam, February 27, 2019. (Associated Press)
“[Woodward] said he was doing something and this time I said, ‘maybe I’ll sit down,’ ‘Trump said Jan. 10 about “The Ingraham Angle.”
“[Woodward] said, ‘You know, you do not look like someone who’s under impeachment, like you know, he’s a bit of a nixon and he’s covering Clinton,’ Trump said of his interview with Woodward, 77, who became famous along with former colleague Carl Bernstein in the 1970s for their coverage of the Nixon Watergate scandal.
“But Bob Woodward, he said, ‘You actually look like you won everything, you look happy.’ I said, ‘I’m happy. “Maybe I’m wired a little differently.”
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Along with the president’s “exclusive” interviews, Woodward will share accounts of Trump’s early national decisions on national security as president, including his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Simon & Schuster.
The same publisher also published two previous books that are critical of the president – one by Mary Trump, the president’s cousin, and one by John Bolton, a former national adviser on security under Trump.
Woodward and Bernstein’s reporting on Watergate helped lead to the dismissal of former President Richard Nixon in 1974. Woodward has written 18 bestsellers.
