.                          Team of Vipers:
My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House by Cliff Sims


"Sims’s vivid portrait of Trump shrewdly balances admiration with misgivings, and
his intricate, engrossing accounts of White House vendettas and power plays have a
good mix of immersion and perspective. The result is one of the best of the recent
flood of Trump tell-alls." ―Publishers Weekly

The first honest insider’s account of the Trump administration.

After standing at Donald Trump’s side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in
the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House
Message Strategy.

He soon found himself pulled into the President’s inner circle as a confidante, an
errand boy, an advisor, a punching bag, and a friend. Sometimes all in the same
conversation.

As a result, Sims gained unprecedented access to the President, sitting in on
private meetings with key Congressional officials, world leaders, and top
White House advisors. He saw how Trump handled the challenges of the office,
and he learned from Trump himself how he saw the world.

For five hundred days, Sims also witnessed first-hand the infighting and leaking,
the anger, joy, and recriminations. He had a role in some of the President’s biggest
successes, and he shared the blame for some of his administration’s worst disasters.
He gained key, often surprising insights into the players of the Trump West Wing,
from Jared Kushner and John Kelly to Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway.

He even helped Trump craft his enemies list, knowing who was loyal and who
was not.

And he took notes. Hundreds of pages of notes. In real-time.

Sims stood with the President in the eye of the storm raging around him, and
now he tells the story that no one else has written―because no one else could.
The story of what it was really like in the West Wing as a member of the
President’s team. The story of power and palace intrigue, backstabbing and
bold victories, as well as painful moral compromises, occasionally with yourself.

Team of Vipers tells the full story, as only a true insider could.