Trump: The Hidden Halo
By (Author) Simon Dolan
Biteback Publishing
Biteback Publishing
1st June 2021
19th March 2021
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
973.933092
Hardback
320
'Trump was stupid. Trump was racist. Trump was sexist. Trump was dangerous. Trump debased the office of US President, embarrassed his country and brought America to the brink of civil war.
Such is the orthodoxy about the 45th President of the United States: billionaire businessman, TV personality and the most controversial American President in history. Throughout his administration, the contempt in which he was held by the establishment and political left across the western world near enough silenced any alternative view. And yet he came within inches of re-election and would almost certainly have won a second term if not for the global coronavirus pandemic.
Undeterred by the establishments noisy vilification, large sections of the American public formed their own view of this extraordinary character and they liked what they saw.
In a quest to redress the balance in what is usually a hopelessly partisan debate, author Simon Dolan looks behind the media hyperbole to offer a very different take on Donald J. Trump, exploring the achievements and traits that appealed to voters in their millions.
Trump: The Hidden Halo sets out Trumps remarkable economic record and reveals the real impact on jobs and wages of the America First approach. Drawing on interviews with political, diplomatic and military figures, it outlines his foreign policy achievements in the Middle East and beyond, taking in his historic dealings with North Koreas Kim Jong-un and his tough stance towards China and Iran. Most of all, it investigates his astonishing ability to overcome the weight of establishment disapproval, connecting with tens of millions of ordinary American voters.
"Powerful and important ... Trump: The Hidden Halo gives him the fair hearing he was consistently denied." - Nigel Farage "We all know what Trump got wrong; not enough is said about what he might have got right. Dolan gives us something very different - a marvellously contrarian counterblast. It should be read by anyone who wants to understand what really happened in America in the past five years." - Freddie Gray, The Spectator USA editor "Since 2016, I have looked at US politics through anti-Trump spectacles. Maybe I have seen what I wanted to see and believed what I wanted to believe. While it has not changed my fundamental position, in arguing an alternative view Trump: The Hidden Halo has helped me understand both why over 74 million Americans voted for Trump in 2020 and how essential it is to take into account all the facts when coming to a political judgement." - Peter Gummer, Baron Chadlington
Simon Dolan is an entrepreneur who amassed a 200 million fortune literally starting from the kitchen table. His business interests cover a wide range of activities, including aviation, PR, software and autonomous vehicles. A libertarian at heart, he has always questioned authority and the motives and general capabilities of people who claim to run a country. Over the years, he has been a champion kickboxer, a Le Mans-winning race driver and a TV personality and has starred in a couple of films. Having never wanted to get into politics himself, he always wondered whether a businessperson could run a country better than a politician. In 2016, he began to find out...