Jay Roach the man who directed HBO's "Game Change" is also set to direct the television adaption of Michael Wolff's book "Fire and Fury."

Jay Roach with Julianne Moore who played Sarah Palin in Game Change.

Courtesy of Entertainment Weekly: 

While Game Change director Jay Roach may no longer be working on that HBO movie about the 2016 election, he’s sticking to the Trump beat for his next project. Roach has been tapped to direct and executive produce the television adaptation of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, EW has learned. 

Roach’s past dealings with politically charged dramatizations paid off with Emmy after Emmy after Emmy. He has four in total — two for HBO’s Recount (about the recounts in Florida after the 2000 presidential election) and two for Game Change (about John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin). Roach also earned two Emmy nominations for his Lyndon B. Johnson biopic, All the Way. 

Based on the track record, might he have another potential awards contender with Fire and Fury?

Okay well I'm certainly loving this, Roach did a great job with Game Change.

But I bet there is somebody who is spitting nails over this news.

Yep, that's her.

The part of the Grammy's that pissed off the conservatives last night.

Courtesy of Politico:  

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may already have a Grammy to her name, but on Sunday night she jokingly auditioned for the role of narrator to "Fire and Fury," Michael Wolff's insider account of drama in President Donald Trump's White House. 

"He had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald's — nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely premade," the former Democratic presidential candidate read from the book, before Grammy host James Corden told her she had the award "in the bag." 

Along with Clinton, Corden's bit of searching for the best narrator of Wolff's book included Snoop Dogg, Cardi B, DJ Khaled and other stars.

Now that is some grade A trolling right there.

Some of the broke ass trolls that show up here at IM should take a lesson. THAT is how you do it.

The clip above was the original version, but it does not capture the crowd reaction, which is the best part.

This tweet demonstrates that the Grammy crowd went wild.

Cardi B and Hillary Clinton reading #FireAndFury is gold 😂 #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/i5yGaZ4dLP

— UPROXX (@UPROXX) January 29, 2018

Oh yeah, that killed.

However some conservatives certainly did not appreciate the joke.

You know like Trump's Ambassador to the UN.

America's top diplomat, whining on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/XjHNOuHInG

— TV MoJoe (@TVMoJoe) January 29, 2018

Ruined the Grammys for you maybe. 

Michael Wolff's book. "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," is going to be a TV series.

Courtesy of the Hollywood Reporter: 

Michael Wolff's controversial Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House is coming to television. 

Endeavor Content — the financing and sales arm formed in October between sister companies William Morris Endeavor and IMG — has purchased film and television rights to the No. 1 best-selling book. The massive deal is said to be in the seven-figure range. Endeavor Content plans to adapt the book as a TV series. A network is not yet attached, as Endeavor will now begin shopping the project. 

Wolff will executive produce the series, with veteran Channel 4 and BBC executive Michael Jackson — now CEO of indie producer Two Cities Television — also on board to produce.

Fire and Fury debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list, based only on the first two days of sales. In less than a week, the publisher reported more than 1.4 million hardcovers on order and 700,000 copies shipped, making it the fastest-selling nonfiction book in the company’s history. 

To date, rights to the book have been sold in 32 countries. It is currently the best-selling book of any genre worldwide. (A Spanish-language edition is set for Feb. 28, with subsequent takes in Arabic, Albanian, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Japanese, French, German and other languages also planned.)

I think that we all know that Trump will be glued to the TV while this show is on, and rage tweeting like a maniac until his phone finally bursts into flames. 

Hey, maybe they will get Alec Baldwin to play Trump.

Because THAT would send him right over the edge.

Time Magazine's new cover.

The new cover of @TIME. pic.twitter.com/EoCjcatYFZ

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 11, 2018

From the article:  

For all the criticism of Wolff’s methods, much about the portrait rings true. Trump didn’t expect to win and, if he thought about it, probably didn’t want to. The campaign itself gave him the power and the glory and the profits. The office takes those away. In the terms he cares about–nuclear button notwithstanding–he is in many ways less powerful as President than he was a year ago. Candidates can say whatever they want about what they will do; Presidents are expected go out and do it. There’s more ridicule and much less freedom. Harry Truman’s “great white jail” is spartan compared with a life pinballing between Mar-a-Lago and Fifth Avenue. The rewards of the office, such as they are, aren’t rewarding to Trump, other than the pomp, the crowds, the chance to show off the Lincoln Bedroom or to see in our response an awe he does not share but likes provoking. The fuel that powers the presidency–the passion for ideas, the attachment to allies, the give and take of practical politics–gives him no energy. So this is an exhausting, even debilitating, life for a 71-year-old, much less one with little curiosity or sense of mission beyond self-interest. The most thin-skinned public figure imaginable has been exposed to the elements. And he doesn’t like them. 

All of this speaks to fitness, which is different than mental capacity or competence or proficiency with policy. It goes to wanting to learn, to grow into the role, to be tested by the office held by others in more difficult times, to make the best of the challenge history hands you. As portrayed in Fire and Fury, Trump is little interested in such things. He is a President who is almost annoyed by the office he holds. What an unhappy man he must be.

Time Magazine also said this about Wolff's book:  

Wolff’s book confirms what others have glimpsed or reported about the baroque character of the Trump White House. But it does so in detail so granular that it may become, even with its shortcomings, a definitive text on the 45th presidency.

Just going to go out on a limb here and say that the cover depicted above may become even more accurate once Trump hears about this. 

On "Meet the Press" author Michael Wolff says the 25th Amendment is talked about all of the time. Update!

Courtesy of NBC News: 

Concern in the White House about President Donald Trump’s fitness for office has become so great that members of the president’s administration routinely talk about a constitutional solution, the author of an explosive new book claimed in an exclusive interview on “Meet The Press.” 

Michael Wolff, the author of “Fire and Fury,” alleged Sunday that the 25th Amendment, which would allow the president’s cabinet to remove him from office, is a concept that is "alive every day in the White House." 

Wolff said White House staffers he talked to would say things like "we're not at a 25th Amendment level yet." Others, he said, called Trump's behaviors "a little 25th Amendment."

Like I said, this is becoming more and more viable every day.

And if they are talking about it in the White House with this kind of frequency, they know it as well.

Update: As if to prove he is unfit for office Trump tweeted this out just tonight.

 Now if you are trying to figure out what an "enormously consensual presidency" is you are not alone, so was everybody on Twitter.

Trump later removed it and replaced it with one that made a little more sense.

“His is turning out to be an enormously consequential presidency. So much so that, despite my own frustration over his missteps, there has never been a day when I wished Hillary Clinton were president. Not one. Indeed, as Trump’s accomplishments accumulate, the mere thought of...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 8, 2018

Because you know, quoting from articles by sycophantic reporters so that you can talk about yourself in the third person is SO MUCH saner. 

"Covfefe."

"Stable genius."

"Enormously consensual presidency."

It's like with every tweet Trump just makes a 25th Amendment solution all the more viable.

Steve Bannon begins to backpedal.

Courtesy of Axios: 

Battered by the backlash from Michael Wolff's book, Steve Bannon is trying to make amends with the Trump family, providing a statement to Axios that expresses "regret" to President Trump and praises his son, Donald Trump Jr. 

"Donald Trump, Jr. is both a patriot and a good man. He has been relentless in his advocacy for his father and the agenda that has helped turn our country around." 

"My support is also unwavering for the president and his agenda — as I have shown daily in my national radio broadcasts, on the pages of Breitbart News and in speeches and appearances from Tokyo and Hong Kong to Arizona and Alabama." 

"President Trump was the only candidate that could have taken on and defeated the Clinton apparatus. I am the only person to date to conduct a global effort to preach the message of Trump and Trumpism; and remain ready to stand in the breech for this president's efforts to make America great again." 

"My comments about the meeting with Russian nationals came from my life experiences as a Naval officer stationed aboard a destroyer whose main mission was to hunt Soviet submarines to my time at the Pentagon during the Reagan years when our focus was the defeat of 'the evil empire' and to making films about Reagan's war against the Soviets and Hillary Clinton's involvement in selling uranium to them." 

"My comments were aimed at Paul Manafort, a seasoned campaign professional with experience and knowledge of how the Russians operate. He should have known they are duplicitous, cunning and not our friends. To reiterate, those comments were not aimed at Don Jr." 

"Everything I have to say about the ridiculous nature of the Russian 'collusion' investigation I said on my 60 Minutes interview. There was no collusion and the investigation is a witch hunt." 

"I regret that my delay in responding to the inaccurate reporting regarding Don Jr has diverted attention from the president's historical accomplishments in the first year of his presidency."

And they call liberals "cucks."

The reason for this is obvious. It's money.

As you may have heard the Mercer family, which had been funding Bannon and Breitbart, decided to stick with Trump on this matter.

Courtesy of WaPo: 

“I support President Trump and the platform upon which he was elected,” Mercer said. “My family and I have not communicated with Steve Bannon in many months and have provided no financial support to his political agenda, nor do we support his recent actions and statements.”

That statement came from Rebekah Mercer, who was Bannon's "sugar mama," and without whom he is really nothing but a badly dressed, racist, political hack.

So we are left to ask, which Steven Bannon is the truth telling Steve Bannon?

The guy in the Trump White House talking shit when he believed his job was secure, and that he and Trump were joined at the hip?

Or the Steve Bannon under constant fire from former friends and colleagues, who may now find himself jobless and potentially penniless?

White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller goes on CNN to defend Trump against allegations in Wolff book, gets combative, and then shut down by Jake Tapper.

Trump Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller on Wolff book: "The book is best understood as a work of very poorly written fiction...The author is a garbage author of a garbage book" #CNNSOTU https://t.co/Uh8YHTxyYV https://t.co/8zEk9Myt8y

— CNN (@CNN) January 7, 2018

The author is a "garbage author of a garbage book."

Ten bucks says Trump wrote that talking point himself.

And what is with the bizarre, jerky tics that this Miller guy keeps demonstrating? Is that what he does when he lies?

"His role has been greatly exaggerated," White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller says of Steve Bannon, who served as Trump's chief strategist #CNNSOTU https://t.co/HnORsqFPE7

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 7, 2018

One of Trump's all time favorite defenses is to claim that the individual telling the truth about him could not possibly know it because he was only a low level operative. Remember George Papadopoulos?

However in this case Bannon was heavily involved in a number of key decisions made by Trump, as Tapper points out.

By the end of the interview Tapper has had enough.

Not always the biggest fan of CNN, but that was certainly worth the price of admission.

Here was Trump's response to Miller's interview.

Jake Tapper of Fake News CNN just got destroyed in his interview with Stephen Miller of the Trump Administration. Watch the hatred and unfairness of this CNN flunky!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2018

Well I guess that audience of one was pleased with his performance. 

And here were the RNC's talking points concerning Michael Wolff's book.

Here are the RNC's weekend talking points about Michael Wolff's book. (A source shared these with me) pic.twitter.com/vPPDvCWpL3

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 6, 2018

If you watch any Sunday news shows today you will hear these come up, verbatim, over and over again.

The European response to Michael Wolff's book has been outright shock.

Tomorrow's front page: Trump’s mental health questioned by top aide #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/mE0d6NkM0S

— The Times of London (@thetimes) January 4, 2018

Courtesy of WaPo: 

European commentary on President Trump is rarely flattering, but the cascading revelations alleged in Michael Wolff’s tell-all book “Fire and Fury,” drew an especially fierce response from a horrified continent. 

“Is Trump still sane?” asked the Friday lead headline on the site of Germany’s most respected conservative paper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The piece was published under the topic “mental health.” 

Meanwhile, British readers woke up to the Times of London's main front page headline that also wondered about the president’s stability: “Trump’s mental health questioned by top aide.” 

“Donald Trump’s right-hand man openly questioned his fitness to serve and predicted that he would resign to avoid being removed by his own cabinet, according to a book that the US president tried to block yesterday,” wrote the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Times of London.

For its part, France’s paper of record, Le Monde, just described the book as “haunting.” 

Trump has never been too popular in Western Europe, with approval ratings in many countries hovering in the single or lower double digits. But even though disagreement with Trump has almost become the norm here, some of Friday’s public responses to Wolff’s book still appeared unprecedented.

Let's face it, Donald Trump was NEVER going to gain any real credibility in Europe.

Those people have first hand knowledge of dealing with thin skinned megalomaniacs.

But I think that this book by Michael Wolff is going to make even those who have seemed more open to negotiating with Trump, like Britain's Theresa May, think twice about dealing with a man deemed stupid or even mentally ill by his closest subordinates.

In other words the world likely no longer sees America as having a functional leader, and there is no way that is good for our country.

Anti-Trump billionaire will hand deliver a copy of Michael Wolff's book to every member of Congress.

.@TomSteyer tells @KQEDNewsroom he’s bought 535 copies of the Trump expose #FireAndFury and will have them hand-delivered to every member of Congress. Hear our entire interview tonite at 7 pm w/ @thuy Vu, who also talks w/ @DarrellIssa & @RepZoeLofgren. pic.twitter.com/KJnWd8p4RB

— Scott Shafer (@scottshafer) January 5, 2018

Courtesy of The Hill:

Democratic mega-donor Tom Steyer says he purchased a copy of author Michael Wolff's controversial new book on the Trump presidency for each member of Congress to read. 

Steyer plans to hand-deliver 535 copies of "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" to each member of the House and Senate, he told California's KQED radio station.

I am not sure if this makes Tom Steyer the greatest troll ever, or just a great patriot.

I'm leaning toward the latter.

The author, Michael Wolff, is convinced that his book will end Trump's presidency:  

Michael Wolff told BBC radio that his conclusion in "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House"-- that Trump is not fit to do the job -- was becoming a widespread view. 

"I think one of the interesting effects of the book so far is a very clear emperor-has-no-clothes effect," Wolff said in an interview broadcast on Saturday. 

"The story that I have told seems to present this presidency in such a way that it says he can’t do his job," Wolff said. 

"Suddenly everywhere people are going 'oh my God, it’s true, he has no clothes'. That's the background to the perception and the understanding that will finally end ... this presidency."

If that ends up being the case Michael Wolff will become a national hero. 

Donald Trump takes to Twitter to essentially reinforce the allegations in Michael Wolff's new book. Update!

Michael Wolff is a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really boring and untruthful book. He used Sloppy Steve Bannon, who cried when he got fired and begged for his job. Now Sloppy Steve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone. Too bad! https://t.co/mEeUhk5ZV9

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018

So that was from yesterday, when Trump decided to once again go on a tirade against Steve Bannon and this new book by Michael Woff.

However one of the things that the book pointed out is that Trump gave people nicknames in order to help remember them, and often repeated the same stories or phrases over and over again.

Which brings us to this tweet by Michael Moore yesterday.

Where does Trump get off plagiarizing himself by calling Bannon “Sloppy Steve” after first calling me “Sloppy Michael Moore” back in October? Does Bannon realize he’s really the sloppy seconds? That I’m the original “Sloppy Mike?” This whole thing is all pretty damn sloppy. pic.twitter.com/3CIXdaL9sY

— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) January 5, 2018

So you can check off that box as correct.

Wolff also said that EVERYBODY in Trump's inner circle talked about how stupid he was behind his back, while he was constantly bragging about his intellect.

Allow me to present today's unhinged tweets.

Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence.....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018

....Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star.....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018

....to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius....and a very stable genius at that!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018

#stablegenius is now trending on Twitter.

Just in case you are numbed by Trump's constant barrage of crazy, and are having trouble identifying mental instability, this is actually insane.

You go ahead and Google the last time a sitting president decided to announce to the world that they were a genius. Go ahead, I'll wait here.

Yeah, it never happened before. Because to do so would indicate a lack of intelligence.

Or even more likely, a mental health problem.

So in just a handful of tweets Trump himself has reinforced the validity of much of what Michael Wolff has described in his now bestselling book.

And he did while clearly believing he was defending himself against the allegations.

Update: Oh my god, he actually went on television to defend his intelligence.

Trump, asked why he tweeted about his mental stability this AM, responds: "Only because I went to the best colleges... I had a siutation where I was a very excellent student... Ran for president one time and won. And then I hear this guy that does not know me..." (via CBS) pic.twitter.com/zmZwyNrNNV

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 6, 2018

I wonder if "I went to the best schools" is what Trump will be yelling when they finally haul him off in handcuffs?

Trump takes to Twitter to attack tell all book, and sends sales through the roof.

I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist. Look at this guy’s past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2018

Well, now that collusion with Russia is proving to be a total hoax and the only collusion is with Hillary Clinton and the FBI/Russia, the Fake News Media (Mainstream) and this phony new book are hitting out at every new front imaginable. They should try winning an election. Sad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2018

So here is Trump blowing off steam as usual, and attacking those who reveal the truth about him.

Problem with that is when you are the most famous liar on the planet it almost automatically gives credibility to those you are attacking.

So in response to Trump and his supporter's scorched earth approach to Michael Wolff's reporting, the publisher decided to start selling the book immediately.

Here we go. You can buy it (and read it) tomorrow. Thank you, Mr. President.

— Michael Wolff (@MichaelWolffNYC) January 4, 2018

And now the book has been selling out all over the country.

It actually sold out in 20 minutes in Washington DC.

It is already the number one book on Amazon, and is likely to hit the top spot in other listings as well sometime today.

Man if I ever write a book I am going to make sure to manipulate Trump into attacking me over it. Easily the best way to ensure a best seller.

Michael Wolff's new book also reveals how Donald Trump tries to trick the wives of his friends into sleeping with him.

From Fire and Fury, here's Trump on his friends' wives --> pic.twitter.com/9imNBaSqm1

— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) January 3, 2018

Courtesy of Raw Story:

Donald Trump had an intricate plan of deception to bed the wives of his friends, according to yet another bombshell revelation from Michael Wolff’s new book Fire and Fury. 

MSNBC obtained a copy of the book and NBC News’ former embedded reporter with the Trump campaign, Katy Tur, tweeted a highlighted section. 

“Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives into bed,” the starred paragraph begins. 

“In pursuing a friend’s wife, he would try to persuade the wife that her husband was perhaps not what she thought. Then he’d have his secretary ask the friend into his office; once the friend arrived, Trump would engage in what was, for him, more or less constant sexual banter. Do you still like having sex with your wife? How often? You must have had a better f*ck than your wife? Tell me about it. I have girls coming in from Los Angeles at three o’clock. We can go upstairs and have a great time. I promise … And all the while, Trump would have his friend’s wife on the speakerphone, listening in,” the book reported.

Congratulations Republicans this is now the leader of your party.