Riveting and richly textured ... Coldly devastating ... What the authors add is the vivid detail that makes these events feel actual. They wrest reality itself back from the distorted world of entertainment, illusion, fantasy and denial that Trump has generated around himself.
A vivid, rigorous, and unavoidably depressing chronicle of the first year of Trump’s second term in the White House ... Part of the high-wire act of such books is that the authors and their publishers work at unaccustomed speed to provide the end product with a history-as-it-is-happening varnish. The results are usually as perishable as week-old bananas ... Regime Change is exceptional. It transcends its genre. Although some of the material is familiar from the Times and other sources and from Trump’s relentless self-exposure, the book is packed with news that will stay news.
Devastating ... Trump, the most powerful man in the world, maybe in history, comes off in these pages as among the most miserable of humans ... Haberman and Swan are deeply sourced, and they put us right in the Cabinet room with the key players at the pivotal moments. It makes for grim reading ... Essential reading to understand how, in just 18 months, Trump’s presidency reached this dreadful precipice, and why, in the end, everyone leaves him.
If you followed the news during 2025, there’s not much in Regime Change that you won’t already know. Reading it is like reading a recap of 2025 ... Not all will have the stomach for it. Haberman and Swan make a valiant attempt to hack through the rumors and rage bait and misinformation ... Still, they can’t really make sense of it.
