The Toddler in Chief: What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency

"It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. . . . And we are trying to do what's right even when Donald Trump won't."--An anonymous senior administrative official in an op-ed published in a New York Times op-ed, September 5, 2018 Every president faces criticism and caricature.Donald Trump, however, is unique in that he is routinely characterized in ways more suitable for a toddler.What's more, it is not just Democrats, pundits, or protestors who compare the president to a child; Trump's staffers, subordinates, and allies on Capitol Hill also describe Trump like a small, badly behaved preschooler. In April 2017, Daniel W. Drezner began curating every example he could find of a Trump ally describing the president like a toddler.So far, he's collected more than one thousand tweets--a rate of more than one a day.In The Toddler-in-Chief, Drezner draws on these examples to take readers through the different dimensions of Trump's i