Trump-Kim bond a ‘fantasy film’: new book includes leaders’ letters

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un meet in the demilitarized zone on 30 June. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters. Sketched by the Pan Pacific Agency.

WASHINGTON D.C., Aug 13, 2020, AP. Veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward’s new book about US President Donald Trump will be released less than two months before election day, according to a listing on Amazon.com, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Publisher Simon & Schuster says Rage will be released on September 15 and follows “Trump’s moves as he faces a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest”. It says Woodward conducted a series of exclusive interviews with the President.

The Amazon listing also notes that Woodward obtained 25 personal letters between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, including one in which Kim describes their bond as something out of a “fantasy film”.

Trump has previously referred to correspondence between the two and said they “fell in love”.

Woodward’s first book about the Trump presidency, Fear, was published in 2018 and went to No. 1 on The New York Times’ nonfiction bestseller list. Simon & Schuster was the publisher of two books this year that were harshly critical of Trump: The Room Where It Happened, by former national security adviser John Bolton, and Too Much and Never Enough, by Trump’s niece Mary Trump.

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