Somewhere in an eastern swamp the President of the United States is likely sputtering in rage onto his bedside Big Mac as a result of the latest news cycle revelations. Yes, I say bedside. Among the several dietary habits which have leaked to the press and public－that Trump drinks twelve Diet Cokes a day, for example－this one has a certain visual power.

Picture it: the brooding hyper-masculine wannabe lumped onto a throne of satin sheets spotted with McDonald’s “special sauce” and dusted with sesame seeds. All the while he yaks into a phone between mouthfuls, coordinating tomorrow’s baloney talking points on Fox with Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson－a nightly ritual for Trump.

Trump’s love of fast food is well-documented, especially by members of the press who were close enough to witness it firsthand on the 2016 campaign trail. But this particular Trump habit comes to us from the mouth of Michael Wolff, the author of the White House tell-all and smash-hit book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”

To write the book, Wolff embedded himself in the White House with Trump’s approval (though he would later deny ever speaking to Wolff), operating as a fly on the wall and conducting over 200 interviews with Trump and his entourage. According to Wolff, these interviews ranged from hurried chats in the Oval Office to talks over dinner hosted by Wolff himself, the contents of all or most of which saved on tape recordings.

In spite of his thorough observations, members of the Trump administration emphatically condemned “Fire and Fury” for being salacious, which it is, and totally untrue, which it is not. Stephen Miller, senior policy adviser and dead-eyed ideologue, prostrated himself to Trump on Jake Tapper’s “State of the Union” to call Wolff a “garbage author of a garbage book” before getting booted from the CNN studio for losing his cool. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said of Wolff on Fox News, “This is a guy who made up a lot of stories to try to sell books, and I think more and more people are starting to see that his facts just simply don’t add up.”

Well….does it not add up? Late to the hubbub, I picked up “Fire and Fury” shortly after Sam Nunberg, a former political adviser to Trump, embarrassed himself by jumping from network to network in an inebriated panic after getting served a subpoena by the special counsel Robert Mueller. The unhinged state of yet another Trump acolyte in the crosshairs of Mueller’s investigation prompted me to finally dig into the book that made America read again last January.

In short, “Fire and Fury” will confirm your biases against the administration. Sussing out the veracity of every minute detail is another matter. The manuscript drips with vitriol and hushed condemnations spat at everyone in the administration, by everyone in the administration, clouding the book with a mire of gossip and intentional, disparaging leaks.

My personal favorite of these comes in a leaked email written to Gary Cohn, former Director of the National Economic Council, from a yet-anonymous source. Its writer describes his exasperation with the state of affairs in the White House, saying, “It’s worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns. Trump won’t read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing….Trump is less a person than a collection of terrible traits.”

Gold.

Notably, the most reliable and consistent spitter of these gems was Steve Bannon, the self-styled political revolutionary and collector of liver spots. He projected a mean forecast for the looming Russia-collusion investigation helmed by Mueller.

“This is all about money laundering,” says Bannon. “Mueller chose [senior prosecutor Andrew] Weissmann first and he is a money-laundering guy. Their path to fucking Trump goes right through Paul Manafort, Don, Jr. and Jared Kushner….It’s as plain as a hair on your face….It goes through Deutsche Bank and all the Kushner shit. The Kushner shit is greasy. They’re going to go right through that. They’re going to roll those two guys up and say play me or trade me….They’re sitting on a beach trying to stop a Category Five.”

Now ousted from the White House, Bannon has, in retrospect, expressed regret for his statements while not altogether denying them.

Is there truth in any of this? “Fire and Fury” seems to confirm every plain bias you can hold against the administration, so in that respect it bolsters certain echo chambers. But then in a chaotic den of bald-faced liars like the White House, it is hardly shocking that a New York gossip writer like Wolff could take advantage of the disorganization. Pro-Trump readers will find little to gain from reading the book, but if they remain resolute in their support at this point in the presidency, nothing will shake their faith. If, like me, this entire perverse drama in DC has fueled your hate-watching of the news cycle like a 40-episode “Days of Our Lives” arc, then this book is a must-read.