MixedWashington PostEw. That’s really the only way to describe the experience of reading All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator a deep dive into the many allegations that depict Trump’s relationships with women as vulgar, misogynistic, demeaning, sometimes violent and always puerile. The accusations wash over a reader like a tidal wave of sewage until you are thoroughly caked in muck and lightheaded from the stink ... you long to scrub your memory bank with bleach, to douse yourself with disinfectant ... And yet. Even though the book elicits disgust and anger, it never shocks ... Nothing in All the President’s Women is shocking because this is the president the public has come to know. All of it, however, is exhausting ... The theme of this book is quite straightforward: The president is a pig. But is Trump, who was not interviewed by the authors, something more than that? Is he a sexual predator? An actual criminal? ... All the President’s Women assembles Trump’s cruelties and transgressions into one neat volume. As a matter of historical bookkeeping, this is useful. But for all the effort, the citizenry is not better informed, only more deeply disgusted.
