Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan — the definitive, deeply reported account of the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency.
From two of the New York Times’ most experienced White House reporters comes a vivid and rigorous chronicle of power, retribution, and the expansion of presidential authority. Drawing on approximately one thousand interviews, Haberman and Swan take readers inside the decisions, personalities, and conflicts that defined Trump’s return to the White House.
The book examines how four years out of power — marked by legal challenges, a felony conviction, and assassination attempts — transformed Trump’s approach to governing. No longer a political outsider learning the system, he returned with loyalists who had studied the levers of federal power and a determination to push institutional boundaries further than before.
Regime Change covers the major events of the term: the exercise of executive authority, border and domestic security measures, foreign policy crises, and the internal dynamics of an administration operating at full intensity. It is both a real-time history of a consequential presidency and a revealing portrait of the man at its center.
Written with the access, detail, and narrative drive that made Haberman’s previous work a bestseller, this is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the second Trump presidency as it unfolds.
