Media Madness : Donald Trump, the Press, and the War over the Truth

According to the media, Donald Trump could never become president. Now many are on a mission to prove he shouldn't be president. The Trump administration and the press are at waramp;mdash;and as in any war, the first casualty has been truth. Bestselling author Howard Kurtz, host of Fox News's Media Buzz and former Washington Post columnist, offers a stunning exposé of how supposedly objective journalists, alarmed by Trump's success, have moved into the opposing camp. Kurtz's exclusive, in-depth, behind-the-scenes interviews with reporters, anchors, and insiders within the Trump White House reveal the unprecedented hostility between the media and the president they cover.

In Media Madness, you'll learn:

• Why White House strategist Steve Bannon told Trump he is in danger of being impeached
• How the love-hate relationship between the president and Morning Joe hostsamp;mdash;Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinskiamp;mdash;turned entirely to hate
• How Kellyanne Conway felt betrayed by journalists who befriended heramp;mdash;and how she fought back
• How elite, mainstream news reportersamp;mdash;named and quotedamp;mdash;openly express their blatant contempt for Trump
• How Bannon tried to block short-lived Communications Director Anthony Scaramucciamp;mdash;and why Trump soured on him
• How Ivanka and Jared Kushner aren't the liberals the pundits want them to beamp;mdash;and why Trump tried to discourage them from joining the White House
• Why Trump believes some journalists harbor hatred for himamp;mdash;and how some liberals despise his voters
• How Trump is a far more pragmatic politician than the press often acknowledges (and how the press dismisses his flip-flops when he flops their way)
• What Trump got wrong about Charlottesvilleamp;mdash;and how Steve Bannon predicted the debacle
• How the media consistently overreached on the Russian "collusion" scandal
• Why Trump actually likes journalists, secretly meets with them, and allows the press unprecedented access
• Why Reince Priebus couldn't do his jobamp;mdash;and the real reason he left the White House
• How Sean Spicer privately berated journalists for bad reportingamp;mdash;and why he and Kellyanne Conway were relentlessly attacked by the media

Never before has there been such an eye-opening, shocking look at what the White House and the media think about each other. It's not pretty. But it also makes for the most important political book of the year.