A controversial new book about the Trump Presidency is now America's best-seller, just hours after it went on sale in bookshops across the country.
The White House insists the book is "tabloid trash….filled with lies".
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks has been thumbing through it.
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It is the book that you can't now buy in Washington for love nor money….Fire and Fury sold out at bookshops all over the city minutes after going on sale.
It tells a lurid tale of utter disfunction in the White House….some elements ring true, like the notion that the Trump team had no expectation whatsoever of winning the White House and were woefully unprepared for government.
Also chiming with what we all know: the claim that so many members of President Trump's inner circle think he's simply not up to the job: after all, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has never personally denied that he called the President a "moron".
The claims by former Trump chief strategist Steven Bannon that a meeting the President's son held with Russian emissaries in Trump Tower during the middle of the election campaign was "treasonous" fuels the notion that special prosecutor Robert Mueller is taking a close look at it.
But then there are clear errors in the book: the idea that President Trump had never heard of the speaker of the house of representatives is undone by pictures that exist of the two of them golfing together.
Claims that Melania Trump wept tears of despair on election night….or the President's daughter Ivanka covets the idea of becoming America's first woman President are also unproven…and may not stand up to much scrutiny.
But this is a book that to some extent tells you what you probably already know - whether you like President Trump or loathe him.
He runs the White House like it's a TV reality show…has a desperate need for people to like and respect him….he's an extraordinarily difficult personality to work for…..and he doesn't personally have a tight or subtle grip on the details of policy.
You knew that all along, didn't you?