The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

by John Bolton

What came next demonstrated Trumpian decision-making and provided (or should have) a cautionary lesson.

Charles Krauthammer, a sharp critic of his, told me he had been wrong earlier to characterize Trump’s behavior as that of an eleven-year-old boy. “I was off by ten years,” Krauthammer remarked. “He’s like a one-year-old. Everything is seen through the prism of whether it benefits Donald Trump.”