White House, Inc., Dan Alexander
White House, Inc., Dan Alexander
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White House, Inc.
How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency into a Business

Author: Dan Alexander

Narrator: Noah Michael Levine

Unabridged: 6 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 09/22/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

An in-depth investigation into Donald Trump’s business—and how he used America’s top job to service it.

White House, Inc. is a newsmaking exposé that details President Trump’s efforts to make money off of politics, taking us inside his exclusive clubs, luxury hotels, overseas partnerships, commercial properties, and personal mansions. Alexander tracks hundreds of millions of dollars flowing freely between big businesses and President Trump. He explains, in plain language, how Trump tried to translate power into profit, from the 2016 campaign to the ramp-up to the 2020 campaign.  

Just because you turn the presidency into a business doesn’t necessarily mean you turn it into a good business. After Trump won the White House, profits plunged at certain properties, like the Doral golf resort in Miami. But the presidency also opened up new opportunities. Trump’s commercial and residential property portfolio morphed into a one-of-a-kind marketplace, through which anyone, anywhere, could pay the president of the United States. Hundreds of customers—including foreign governments, big businesses, and individual investors—obliged.

The president's disregard for norms sparked a trickle-down ethics crisis with no precedent in modern American history. Trump appointed an inner circle of centimillionaires and billionaires—including Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Wilbur Ross, and Carl Icahn—who came with their own conflict-ridden portfolios. Following the president’s lead, they trampled barriers meant to separate their financial holdings from their government roles.

White House, Inc. is a page-turning, hair-raising investigation into Trump and his team, who corrupted the U.S. presidency and managed to avoid accountability. Until now.

*This audiobook contains a PDF with additional financial data.

About The Author

Dan Alexander is a senior editor at Forbes, where he leads the magazine's coverage of Donald Trump. Twice a year, Alexander is responsible for putting together Forbes' estimate of Donald Trump's net worth. Alexander won the 2018 ASME NEXT award, given to magazine journalists under 30 who "demonstrated extraordinary promise." The New York City Society of Professional Journalists honored him with back-to-back awards for best business feature of the year in 2017 and 2018. Born and raised in Ohio, he now lives in New Jersey.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jill

If you like to read about Donald Trump and his administration, you’re in luck because it seems as If a new book is published every Tuesday. Ranging from books about Trump’s love life, his family and THEIR love lives, and clear to the damage Trump is doing, Donald Trump has been a godsend to American......more

Goodreads review by Matt

I don’t know what this masochistic impulse is that I have for reading about the goddamn Trump administration. Maybe those four years were so chaotic that I feel compelled to read reasonable post-mortems just to prove to myself that it all actually happened? Or maybe it’s a cautionary exercise, so th......more

Goodreads review by Ted

Solid research and reporting about Trump’s conflicts of interest and how he permitted himself to be compromised by foreign governments. We’ll never know the full extent, but the expose is alarming, albeit not surprising. What is surprising is how some of his ventures are barely getting by or losing m......more