Trump got massive media attention which helped get him elected but the reason behind all that coverage is there's something about him that is unique and thus fascinating. He lives in his own world and nothing can really penetrate and get in. Yes, he can be insulted which enrages him, or praised which pleases him but outside of that he's not really a person. Where's the birth certificate that shows he was born on this planet? People project human reactions on him but Woodward just describes him from the outside without judgement. I learned little new from this book about actual events but just watching Trump participate without any actual relationships with the others (who don't quite notice the human absence) is something you can't see anywhere else. The repetitiveness of already well known events gets boring at times but I found myself sympathetic to Trump at times as he continues to be himself regardless of any attempts to make him into someone who could responsibly run the country. He makes up his own reality as he goes along, not out of some fiendish plot, but because that's who he is. He's not ashamed of what he's done or trying to hide his guilt. That would require more of a relationship with the human race. He just creates reality as he likes it--"we can fix that," he says, when told certain facts are inconvenient for his candidacy--and he effortlessly becomes someone else, believing his own made up new self has always been who he is.