Maggie Haberman: Politics, Donald Trump, and the Breaking of America
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2022
- Who is Donald Trump? In her highly anticipated new book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman chronicles his life from his rise in New York City to the White House.
Join us as Haberman discusses what she learned during interviews with hundreds of sources as well as numerous interviews over the years with Donald Trump himself, a man she says is both a complicated and often contradictory historical figure who pushed American democracy to the brink.
This is an important political event you won’t want to miss.
Photo by Doug Mills.
October 18, 2022
Speakers
Maggie Haberman
Senior Political Reporter, The New York Times; Author, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America; Twitter @maggieNYT
In Conversation with Tim Miller
Writer-at-large, The Bulwark; Author, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell; Twitter @timodc
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What I felt was his most dangerous quality was his boundless ignorance. Were there comments by the staff about how dangerously ignorant he was? I doubt that to this day, Drumph could not list the three branches of government.
I've not come across anyone who used the word "ignorance" but John Bolton comes pretty close. It's in one of the online, full-length interviews for the PBS show "Frontline." He states that no one could ever come to the office well-informed of all the issues that a president must address and that's why it's imperative that he get the best possible advisors. Bolton said that Trump had no interest in reading anything from his advisors and seemed to have this belief that instinct would tell him what to do when a decision actually had to be made. In Michael Wolff's, "Fire and Fury," he quotes an email from Gary Cohn: "It's worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns. Trump won't read anything--not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored ... Trump is less a person than a collection of terrible traits .... I am in a constant state of shock and horror."
Trump is an ideal case study of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Despite being alarmingly ignorant & entirely incurious, he has full confidence in his "instincts/gut feelings" & his "very large brain."
He also seems thoroughly convinced that knowledge can be inherited genetically; he frequently mentions his "genius" uncle, John Trump, a former MIT professor*.
*citation needed
While touring labs at the CDC, he mused that perhaps he should've followed in his uncle's footsteps. Donald claimed the CDC scientists were impressed by how much he understood; he credited it to being "a natural, because of his uncle."
@@robertmclaughlin9472 Maggie Haberman is a Trump family shill. Her mother works PR for The Family. Maggie Haberman uses Access Journalism to maintain a political career and a career of posing as a journalist. This book, these interviews are all a part of the ..... Say it! Say what you think I was gonna write!
@@TheHanoixan Is there a reason for your asking me to say what you were going to write? I don't care what you think of Haberman or her mother, whether it be good or bad.
@@robertmclaughlin9472 Frontline dove into the toilet rather than cover Trump professionally.
I'm currently reading Maggie's book. In this interview with Tim, where she talks about how the media helped Trump's self-myth-building in the '60s, 70s and 80s, she stopped too soon. They were still doing it as of two years ago! Some might say they are STILL doing it.
um, no..they need him for ratings,because anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together realize by now lamestream legacy media is corrupt and dying. they reported the trump russia collusion narrative- a lie. they said the lap top was russian disinfo- another lie.50 fbi and intelligence officials knew laptop was real and supressed it with big tech from the american people. nincompoop
Thank you for your great service to the country, Maggie. Journalists are a part of leaders being held accountable for the American people!
Indeed
As scary as he is....his supporters..many of whom are my family, friends and acquaintances....who are totally committed to being misinformed....are scarier ..he could drop dead today yet this crazy train will continue down the track😬😬...we are in danger
Trump is a symptom, not the cause.
Maggie is a living LEDGEND from Ireland 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇺🇸🇺🇸
Excellent team!
I love Tim Miller! I am listening to Maggie's book and find it informative.
Lindsay Graham has described Trump as a "consequential president." I would describe him as "consequentially bad."
Graham needs to elaborate - Which People are In Don's Consequential Snare. I suspect Graham is.
Graham's scared. Bet Don has Video Evidence of Graham's Private Behavior which Don Will Reveal - if Graham is Disloyal to Der Leader Don.
@@annemosbergen3951 I wonder.
Thank you for this program. I was enthralled from beginning to end.
It's easy to see Donald Trump's motivations, between having read Mary Trump's first book and how, watching Ms Haberman speak, hearing how Donald Trump's later relationship with himself developed during the years of his presidency. I'm no psychologist but I might be someone that knows a little something about people. it is not hard to see him as a pitiable, sick man. One in desperate need of help. I don't see him as a stupid man Just as a badly damaged person
I also recommend seeing Colbert's recent interview with Howard Stern. Both of them are highly intelligent. I am grateful that I never met Donald Trump. I might have ended up as another Michael Cohen.
Anyone that has experienced Trump from afar might feel the same way. Donald Trump is like a stage hypnotist without the charm. Supposedly, no one can do anything that is contrary to their nature. If that is so, Trump must have wanted to get caught. His own deathwish, as it is called by psychologists, is responsible for his legal troubles.
It is also easy to see why he lost the election in 2020 and why he continues to try to hold onto power. Even through his many legal problems. Any person that is remotely connected to show business. would see Trump's bloviations for what they are.. Doctors, lawyers, teachers. Blacks, whites, men, women. Even suburban housewives.
This comment is already too long, so I'll stop here.
We still don' know what will happen in November of 2022. But if it is anything like what January of 2021, heaven help us all.
Howard Stern is very likely a Jeffrey Epstein cabal member just like Trump. From reading your post i am concerened you are seeing at ground level, when its a underworld cabal.
You were enthralled by Maggie Haberman. Good god man This woman is lazy, sloppy and devoid of creativity it's not journalism. It is an agenda
I also like the audio interview with, I'm sorry, I am tired and can't recall his name. But he's a very talented reporter who asked trump questions and trump would call him in the middle of the night. What he says is astonishing even though I don't know why because I have known about trump since I was young because of the NJ casinos trump built and of course it failed
You have a misplaced respect for your own abilities. This is derivative drivel. I do not sense the potential for you to meet or exceed the role of Michael Cohen.
@@jimdocker9606 Creativity? Journalism is about facts. There's no room for *creativity*.
Your comment speaks for itself.
Thank you, Tim Miller, for everything that you do for our democracy. Nick and Mike Campbell, Atascadero, California.
I recall Don was in People Magazine for years. Including when he had to sell his helicopter, boat, etc. His divorce from Ivana & Marla. "Made good copy" is spot on.
Became National Name with People Magazine, and on Mark Burnett's "The Apprentice" with his "You're Fired!"
Has a fragile ego - he compensates with bravura, brags, lies, and lashes back.
Bullies & charms.
This was a very good interview. Thanks for putting this on utube for us to understand her book and her time with Trump.
Love this interviewer!!! He speaks for the audience.
So refreshing to hear What Maggie says resonates with what my conscience reveals to me. This settles my anxiety in a way but not my fear of the voters who believe his charades
Maggie is so awesome
Somewhere I read many in New York, including journalists, considered Trump to be an amusing con man. They did not know he was dangerous
Well, we didn't know anyone else would take him seriously. And New York isn't exactly on another planet, so his buffoonery was no secret. But yes, point taken.
45 has never known love, outside his mother's in early life, so is desperately trying to make people love him. He couldn't love his brother because Fred made it clear they were competing against each other and 45 won (because favoritism was as close to love as Fred could bestow) and learned how to beat people down. That's it. The whole mystique.
I disagree. None of us had a wonderful family, but we didn't turn into monsters. Jamaica Estates, where he grew up, which is a small wealthy neighborhood, surrounded by people who struggle. Did anybody ever tell him how difficult it is for a single mom to raise children? His mother might have talked about it, but obviously she did not!
@@dorisaffissio1649 My brother became one. Men like them, and even some like me, are tired of hearing about how inherently good moms are. Mine fostered my brother into a monster.
Excellent book! She is my new favorite reporter.
Maggie is a National Heroine❤
Simply fascinating
Tim and Maggie 🎉What a treat.❤
Really recommend Maggie Haberman's book - it's very deeply researched and very readable - or audible in my case since I've got that version. Really gives an insight into Donald Trump, his flaws and also the strengths that enabled him to get support. The latter has attracted criticism to the book, but it's not enough to say that people voted for Trump because they were stupid evil beasties. Required reading for anyone wanting to plan against a return of DT.
She is a great reporter and has the best relationship with Trump as a reporter.
@@anniemac7545 Didn't stop him being rude about her and her book though! Man has no manners.
Just ordered her book. Fantastic interview!
For me he’s a bully it’ has worked for him his entire life. I don’t aspect him to change.
A gameshow host for President. What did America expect? 🤔
Try a blues-singer next time!
Exactly..........I just don't get how stupid and gullible people are.
@@anniemac7545 Thanks, Annie. Sad about Bernie. Greetings from UK anyway. 😉
PS: The world hasn't felt this unsafe since the Cuba/USSR missile crisis but I still hope America will come to its senses. Biden's obviously suffering the infirmities of old age but at least he's not mad. 🌈🦉
Many expected the fiction rather than the reality.
Neil Gilfillan’s comment regarding Trump lacking childhood love and support ring true for me. I feel sad that he shall never know the height, depth and width of being loved or respected thank you Neil
It is sad, yet he is responsible for his actions, he knows what is right and wrong. My childhood was extremely similar. I was brought up by 2 narcissists, I was a scapegoat child (like Mary trump's father) in the family. I can never ever forgive my family, parents for the way they have treated me.....they chose to be cruel and abusive.
@@anniemac7545 Yet, his 4 siblings did not turn into monsters, and neither did you or I!
This was a wonderful interview. Thank you Maggie and Tim. And the Comminwealth Club.
I'm trying to figure out which of these Trump books I should add to my library 🤔 I think it will be Maggie's book and that couple who writes about him
See my comment above to Rita Marie Kelly to check the Two fundamental books I found helpful navigating the last six years - and currently what we're going thru - as Don's not going away any time soon.
I have read many. Some are kind of silly, many are interesting. All you really need is Haberman's book.
And Wayne Barrett.
The Divider by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
@@lhoward9593 Them! TYVM!
The book is a great read. A page turner for me. Almost halfway. She really know Trump best.
I've watched many interviews with Maggie over the past few days or weeks and there's one thing I've noticed that runs through all of them. Whenever the hosts crack jokes about Trump or get a laugh from the audience, she is silent. She seems to think reducing Trump to a punchline or a fool is a big mistake that helped him win his first election. She clearly believes he is dangerous and laughing at him emboldens him (being seen as foolish, weak or less wealthy is his Achilles heal) and distracts us from the very real threat.
Well said.
I know it's a bit of a cliche anecdote at this point....but it still holds...that early in Hitler's political ascendancy...he too was mocked and belittled and laughed at. Not only was he not taken seriously...but he used that to argue, on behalf of the average citizen, that the elites were laughing at THEM as well. Psychopathy isn't funny, as it turns out. I hope we've at least learned that lesson by now. We'll find out soon enough....
@@avedic I know. Hitler has been used so many times in hyperbole that he is analgous to when conspiracy theorists claim the wealthy elites are lizard people in disguise...
Nazi Germany is exactly the right analog to what is happening on the Right currently. The difference is that because information and communication is so readily available to everyone, those of us who see it have a way to confirm each other's observations. We know there are more of us. Joining that movement doesn't have the social pull that it would have if we were all isolated. Thats one positive effect of being so online. Sure, bad actors find each other and build community much easier than in the past, but so do people who resist. If it weren't for being so online, you and I wouldn't be having this dialog.
“Wrapped around the axle”. Great visual!
He has convinced himself that it should be true.
45 doesn't agree with the outrages about him but, since that's what he always gets, he has learned how to manipulate it and win. Therefore, he seeks to keep outrage going until it opens an advantage for him to win. That's all. The revelation about pulverizing his father makes sense from an abused child angle.
He creates the outrage in the 1st place so he agrees (in one way). He loves chaos. He loves destruction. He loves to inspire fear and rage. It's easier to destroy than create. He has done it since he was a child. He will never stop.
Fun interview. Scary topic.
Maggie and Tim are quite the comedy team! Thank you for this presentation, Maggie was wonderfully informative and lent a lot of perspective on 45 and why we need to look for his next imitator and remember to take them seriously so we can cut the new monster off from power before it has a chance to land in the top seat.
Why are people still acting surprised about trumps corruption and theatrics? People, this is the 6th consecutive year of the Trump idiotic show.
Yeah I know what you mean. Thank god we have a president now that is so honest and has %98 of the media that lies For him.
Because they refuse to see the evidence, to hear the evidence, or to believe the truth about Trump. Not even if you prove it with absolute factual evidence. They will not believe the evidence. It's like a kind of hypnosis. It is what the leader of a cult cultivates.
Terrific. Thank you.
Thank you for the Truth ❤🎉
I'm sick and under the weather myself for a week now but looking forward to watching this! 💙😶💙
"I have so many rich friends, and no1 knows them". Yeah, thats how most ppl prefer it. Its actually a pretty pathetic remark. Especially since its public knowledge, that his rich "friends" were only tolerating him, as far as they could (and can) use him. Theres soooo many anonymous quotes from these "friends" ridiculing him for his atrocious manners, his pathetic grovelling etc etc and laughing at his claims about his supposed fortune.
Seriously, if he wasnt also such a malevolent wrecking ball, who has done so much damage all thanks to the circumstances of his birth, his fathers money and a celebrity obsessed society, I would actually feel sorry for him. He is such weak, pathetic puddle of insecurites, always looking for approval or just recognition.
Excellent. Thank you very much indeed both.
Just finished the book, great read!😊
Magge Haberman and Tim Miller are my two favorite Americans, and give me hope that you lot over ther arent all that bad after all.
"psycho...drama" Was the the slight pause there intentional? (Or maybe I just heard it that way.)
Great interview. Tim is hysterical.
FINALLY TRUTH
Partially
That is a very sad flower arrangement. I very much enjoy the CCC despite this.
Clearly spent considerable time in a sweaty clenched fist before getting jammed into a nearby vase. Kinda like us since the golden escalator.
I heard him say that straight out if you say it often enough and loud enough, people will start believing you who repeats himself more, and who is louder than he
Really great interview and discussion
Who is interviewing who????
Peer into people's faces.....this is frightening!
Maggie is a huge Trump enabler. Constantly soft-covering his actions and withholding damaging information. This is obvious when you view the language she uses in her articles. She's an access journalist and she played a huge part in Trump's political rise and ability to avoid accountability.
iIalla +
I agree, and throw in Bob Woodard for the measure. David Cay Johnston is who I turn to about Trump,
he's written about this charlatan for years and he knows Trump's game well.
Well at least he's not like the alternative who has the entire media trying to play down his complete inadaquacy.
Agree. What not " All the Presidents men" her favorite.
One of many. She said she would cover him differently in 2024. Growth and learning is a good thing.
not fair!
It's really embarrassing when an ex president pronounces Yosemite (yo so might).
Which president??
There's many more embarrassing issues than that!
The Art of the Bankruptcy
Is lying and denying facts the new normal?
Michael: do you even have to ask? Look around you. It's all around you. The answer is YES!
Journalists have a stressful life.
They choose it then become addicted and drink any kind of beer.
She’s no journalist lmao
Ah, Maggie Riefenstahl.
How does a journalist maintain a projection of objectivity? Personal opinions and gut feelings must enter into the reporting. As an “opinion” columnist, what are the limitations?
Perhaps that's not a real journalist, is it? A real journalist reports the facts. I don't know why we have so many opinion "journalists" anyway. Shouldn't the readers have their own opinions and screw what some fake news host (like Tucker or Hannity) thinks about anything. (Especially when they're spouting misinformation to their viewers!
Let's Go Brandon!
Dark Brandon 😎💙💙🇺🇸👍
Yes! Do go with Brandon, Always. We are not bullying children. We are adults with higher aspirations so please take your poison and spread it elsewhere (if you must)
@@steppenwolf3252 😅🤣
Back when I was a lowly real estate broker and Trump had just gobbled up Riverside Blvd, I found myself in a line shaking Trump's hand. I didn't know him but I did feel as if I was touching Voldemort.
Trump is crazy, but I'm not so sure the guy wearing pearls was really conservative. lol
Not a particularly good interview. Tim Miller's questions were meh. Covered territory a lot of other writers and political analysts have spoken and written about for years now. Maybe there's just not that much new to know about an amazingly shallow personality.
I heartily agree. Nothing new; nothing worth buying the book for a rehash.
Politics, donald trump and a pair of spectacles that make my eyes shaped as an animal.
superb reporting by haberman & informative video, but interviewer is an adult who speaks like a 12 year old child. he keeps saying "his super power". classic example of today's adults acting like eternal children in maturity level, mannerism, vocabulary, speech pattern, etc....
Fun???
She is in love with the snow flake!
America needs to split up now...we can't go on like this...we can still cooperate as a trade block but red America and blue America can't coexist..it's over just Noone will admit it....we are now 2 counties..
Why give up on America so easily? If we split: we are no longer4 a democracy--but 2 dictatorships instead? Why? We can stop the madness if we choose to support the constitution rather than one demagogue. Why give in to evil and the wishes of Putin and Kim Jong Un and other Fascist leaders? Aren't we better than that? Did you never believe in America and our Democracy?
@@steppenwolf3252 because I see no hope... There doesn't seem to be a way to put humpty donkey back together again..... And at least we can have one part of the country that can move forward Is without the other have holding it back.... America gave up on itself... I just feel like I'm following suit... I don't know.... Talk to me some other time I might feel different but I just don't see any Coming back together again if one side is totally unwilling to compromise with the other... That's how this whole country was built on compromise after compromise and now we have one party that says they will not compromise at all on anything... How does a country continue to exist like that..... it is a strange uncertain time... I go to work everyday come back I'm glad I have one of the few Union jobs left.... But I also got a prescription for an anti anxiety drug because society just kind of sucks and everything around me sucks... It helped for a while but it doesn't anymore that's why I've had to wein myself off of it... Something's gotta change something's gotta give..... Benzos aren't the answer... Is tapering is going to be difficult..... But the past few years have just been Unbelievable.... It was my decision to find a stress pill and a doctor who would give me one but It's not good in the long run... And having a constant sense of doom about what's gonna happen next also sucks... And that is what is provided by America right now there's a Supreme Court case that could literally destroyed democracy and let state legislatures Decide who the winner is.. This Supreme Court I think would strike down democracy in a heartbeat.. Hope I'm wrong but we'll see
... exactly ... a good result is the honesty of that conclusion is his only sole attribute to 4 years of enduring his presidency and the outrageous tragic aftermath for which sadly we are still paying in so many ways.
He was the Russian Mob (post soviet) Money Launderer asset.
Real Estate is a big one.
Trump needs to here the equivalent of "We forget you Queen Mab" When Merlin and Frick turn their backs and walk away. "You don't exist"
hear
I don’t believe I missed Colbert for this interview. Kept hoping it would become substantive. Bah!
Well, she can't read the book for you, can she?
Now she tells us
So Trump is essentially a PR firm.
For himself.
What a shallow interview. Mr. Miller needs to repeat basic jounalism classes. Got the impression he was attemping to be interviewed instead of Ms. Haberman. Paul Laboda
I didn't get that impression at all! Rather that they made a good team since Tim knew most of Maggie's history and experience so he could ask pertinent questions. In fact, I didn't hear him talk about himself or give any personal interview responses. Please be more specific.
When will we ever stop praising the Orange Jesus by just giving him air time?
Why is there a laugh track on this vid???
Uhh... There's a live audience. And they are laughing at Trump. Because so far, that's the best we can do to make him pissed off.
Maggie would be a good president.
I would like to have a cofefe mug of Trump in his black cap standing on ice in Central Park at night on one side and on the other, the English blimp of him in a diaper. That to me is the essence of the man and it's so SAD that people didn't see him for the "sideshow" he is!
Almost everyone in this country that is not rich or in our military wishes we could go back to the Trump years when we got up happy, respecting our government and his love for this country. He gave his salary back to us. He was respected by almost every country in the world. News people look for dissatisfied people at their own doings not people who has made it better by obeying the laws.
If that's canned laughter, please don't add this audio again. Canned laughter is apparently artificial.
Have real people there - even if a few.
Otherwise, good interview.
Adding to my previous comment:- If live audience instead on canned laughter, their laughs were inappropriate to the topic being addressed. E.g. If Serious topic touched on obfuscation and lying, I believe it's inappropriate to laugh at a serious answer.
Like saying, "My house burned down and I'm homeless." (Laughter).
Hope you understand my point of view.
Otherwise I enjoy your presentations.
Clearly NOT canned laughter. Any why not, the subject matter is a joke.
@@chicagofineart9546 I can't laugh if my rights are in danger of being abolished, my freedoms cancelled, and I must obey Totalitarian Laws.
@@annemosbergen3951 Those things are important, it's Trump that's the butt of the laughter, and the joke.
It is not canned laughter. It is a venue and people come to listen to authors discuss their books.
This shows that "Commonwealth Club of California" isn't always worth my time.
What a shame! I feel your time is worth this and much more too, RPK. Perhaps you'll learn that later?
Well, outrageous inflation, highest gas and grocery prices, and being SO much closer to global nuclear war, are all worth it - at least there's no more mean tweets! 🤪🙃
Biden must be a genius *and* omnipresent to cause global inflation & be Putin's puppet-master. How do you suppose he does it -- mind control?
@@Tupelo927 no, it's pretty simple, especially if you look at the rest of the world. It was Biden's, Canada's and other countries, following the World Economic Forum's "Build Back Better" policies.
Trump was laughed at by the European leaders, when he said that they were going to be dependent on Russian oil, and it would hurt them. But again, he had mean tweets, so nobody listened. They followed the same WEF policies, hence the global inflation.
Our global responses to the pandemic are also to blame, thanks to Biden, Trudope, etc..
Read some news outside of the US. 😊
Exactly, and the funny thing is that the only people who care about twittter are journalists. Imagine if Biden was capable of tweeting on his own without any direction what we might get. Maybe he would repeat "you don't f&*#k with a Biden".
Thanks to the Pandemic & Putin 🤑
And don't forget the millions of dead Americans Trump's mismanagement caused and is stil currently causing.
She, “felt it was her obligation to.capitalize on people’s hatred for Trump by writing a book and make a bunch of fun coupons.
She never said that. I noticed you did not close your quotes and that's good. She said it was her obligation--to report on Trump. It's not about "hating" Trump. It's about knowing who Trump is so that you can make an informed, educated opinion about the man. I don't think she has a bunch of fun coupons...but what coupons does she offer? (I may buy the book for the coupons) Do tell Mr. Howard!
Propaganda at its finest reines supream on the channel.
it seems Tim has a hard time accepting Donald's pathology. Come on Tim. Donald is evil. Get over it.
Tim is simply asking questions. I didn't think he was having a hard time accepting Trump's pathology but rather seeking to understand and explain it better.
Maybe you two are shameless.
This is garbage and absolute assumption/opinion based.
Just another so-called journalist who kept all the important parts hidden until it meant a paycheck for her. Disgusting.
Stop whining. Maggie Haberman has been around for decades. Read the book and then you have the right to pass judgment.
She has covered Trump for years. This book covers more of his background.
Please tell me why you thought Donald trump was a good person?
VOTE RED !!!!
Not a chance!
@@meghan42 YOU MUST LIKE BIDENOMICS !
@@leannthomas2103 yep!!... 1.8 trillion of the deficit trump created after he trashed the Obama economy crying about the stock market as we DIEDE at 4,000 per day!!... fkn rghts we do!!
Go to bed, Ivan. We can clock you EVERY TIME.
@@TTownTim 🐑🤡💩
Big surprises. If you lived in NYC you know who he is
He project strength, but the truth is he's a coward.
"when you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth". Im pretty sure Joseph Goebbels invented that line when you repeat