Every president deserves to have a nemesis in the press. There was Benjamin Franklin Bache (grandson of), founder of the Philadelphia Aurora, who criticized John Adams so much that he was arrested for sedition. Nixon had Jack Anderson, a “son of a bitch” columnist so problematic that the White House plotted his assassination. And while Donald Trump has a crowded field to pluck from, his nemesis might just end up being Michael Wolff.
More than almost any other writer—more so even than any former Trump staffer—Wolff has made his name by being a thorn in the president’s side. He has written four books on Trump in the last decade alone, the first of which, Fire and Fury, dominated the global news agenda for months. But it is only now that the pair look set to square up for good.
