Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

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[[File:Fire and Fury.jpeg|thumb|left|165px|The cover of ''Fire and Fury'']][[File:Fire and Furry.jpeg|thumb|left|165px|[[Furry fandom|Not to be confused with...]]<ref>DeCosta-Klipa, Nik, ''[https://www.boston.com/news/media/2017/08/10/maine-newspaper-mortified-by-front-page-typo-of-trumps-north-korea-threat Maine newspaper 'mortified' by front-page typo of Trump's North Korea threat]'', Boston.com, 10 August 2017.</ref>]]

'''''Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House''''' ({{Isbn|1250158060}}) is a book by {{wpl|Michael Wolff (journalist)|Michael Wolff}} detailing the campaign for and the first year of the [[Donald Trump]] presidency. Originally scheduled to be released on January 9, 2018 (later rescheduled to January 5), [[Streisand effect|it was propelled into the spotlight]] after Trump's lawyers sent cease-and-desist messages to its publisher Henry Holt and Company asking them to halt its publication. Following the pre-publication revelation that [[Steve Bannon]] regarded the {{wpl|Trump campaign–Russian meetings|campaign meeting with agents of the Russian government at Trump Tower as treasonous,}} the book went to the number-one spot on Amazon's ''Best-Selling Books'' list on January 3, 2018.<ref>Stelter, Brian, ''[http://cnnmon.ie/2COR8Gy Michael Wolff's Trump book hits #1 on Amazon, publisher speeds up rollout plan]'', [[CNN]] Money, 4 January 2018</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180103212614/https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Fury-Inside-Trump-White/dp/1250158060 ''Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House''] Amazon.com (archived from January 3, 2018).</ref>

Although in the past Wolff has been accused of "not just recreating scenes in his books and columns, but of creating them wholesale",<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/michael-wolff-tells-a-juicy-tale-in-his-new-trump-book-but-should-we-believe-it/2018/01/03/d46f31c6-f0b2-11e7-97bf-bba379b809ab_story.html Michael Wolff tells a juicy tale in his new Trump book. But should we believe it?] by Paul Farhi (January 3, 2017) ''The Washington Post''.</ref> there is reason to believe there are truths to be found within the book:<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/01/04/we-already-know-the-alarming-truth-about-trump-michael-wolffs-book-just-confirms-it/ Michael Wolff’s book explosive book confirms an alarming truth about Trump] by Greg Sargent (January 4, 2017 at 10:06 AM) ''The Washington Post''.</ref> 1) his unprecedented eighteen-month "fly-on-the-wall" access,<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/04/how-author-michael-wolff-got-his-fly-wall-access-trump-white-house/1003673001/ How author Michael Wolff got his 'fly-on-the-wall' access to the Trump White House] by Gregory Korte (Published 4:58 p.m. ET Jan. 4, 2018 | Updated 6:47 p.m. ET Jan. 4, 2018) ''USA Today''.</ref> 2) his access to hours of tapes from the White House,<ref>[https://www.axios.com/how-michael-wolff-did-it-2522360813.html Scoop: Wolff taped interviews with Bannon, top officials] by Mike Allen (January 4, 2018) ''Axios''.</ref> 3) the swift non-denial denial and outrage from Trump.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/03/575295244/steve-bannon-is-quoted-saying-trump-tower-meeting-was-treasonous Steve Bannon 'Lost His Mind,' Trump Says In Response To Critical Quotes] by Bill Chappell (January 3, 201811:02 AM ET) ''The Two-Way: NPR''.</ref> 4) Bannon, who made some of the most damning comments in the book, has not disputed them.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/and-the-trumpie-for-best-actor-in-a-misleading-role-goes-to-/2018/01/05/a2039cea-f251-11e7-b390-a36dc3fa2842_story.html And the Trumpie goes to…] by Dana Milbank (January 5 at 7:48 PM) ''The Washington Post''.</ref>

== Title ==
The title of the book is a reference to a bizarre statement made by Trump regarding his plans on dealing with the [[North Korea]]n nuclear crisis, in which he said "[North Korea] will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen".<ref>Zeleny, Jeff, Merica, Dan, and Liptak, Kevin, ''[http://cnn.it/2hMopvk Trump's 'fire and fury' remark was improvised but familiar]'', CNN Politics, 9 August 2017.</ref>

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