The introduction was almot unreadable. The rest seemed to be too obvious to be worth reading.

I received a free e-galley from netgalley.com.

Keith Olbermann gives an almost day by day account of Donald Trump's campaign up to his early days in office. Love the man or hate him, this is a fascinating book to read. You can't help laughing out loud at some of our President's wonderful tweets.

Great job Mr. Olbermann at capturing the true identity of the President of the United States. I recommend this book for his critics and his supporters, as long as you can read it with an open mind and a clear head.

I'm a big fan of Keith Olbermann but this book felt a bit too long and it goes over the same things as his show. Not sure you need to read and watch both, especially when there are so many great political books coming out.

For those that know nothing but to follow Trump blindly and denounce any criticism of him or any other group other than extreme conservative Republicans, I would ask them to actually READ this book. People like that remind me of all the people I encountered in the Soviet Union decades ago who spoke the same way about that government at that time....no critical thinking allowed and no other party allowed.

If you have watched th videos, you don't need to read the book.

First things first, I agree with Olbermann's overarching sentiment here. So please don't mistake my slightly "meh" score for me being a fan of the Cheeto in Chief. Far far far from it. So why am I not giving this book 5 stars?
I deducted a point each for my 2 biggest gripes with this book....
(1) Olbermann doesn't present exactly the most balanced view of things. He doesn't like Trump, but I guess you could figure that out from the title. However he then makes excuses for some of the dirtier sides of the Democratic Party. You can't gun for one candidate and be an apologist for equally egregious behaviour from your side.
(2) Olbermann is preaching to the echo chamber. Nobody is going to be swayed by his thoughts. Perhaps with a more moderate approach he could win over some wavering swing voters, but he is so apoplectic that the message gets lost behind the facade of just another angry man shouting at an even angrier man.
So what's left? I ended up feeling like I was just watching Olbermann go through therapy. Spewing bile and venting his spleen, page after page. Some of it is very funny, but after a while it ends up feeling like the Trump presidency itself - lots of frankly exhausting pointless angry toxic shouting.

I feel this book is premature. I watch the Resistance videos on YouTube and this book feels a little redundant when all the content is available there for free. This feels like a rush job.

Wow this is so spot on. I have loved Keith Olbermann since countdown and in this book he has not disappointed. This is on point and he is very good at telling exactly what he thinks. He does not disappoint. I could not put this book down.

This book should have been published before the election. I am not sure if it would have made a difference, but it was a very great read. The chronological order of the the essays written for GQ in one book is great. Some of the things written about in this book I remember, some I did not. Good analogy of things Trump has done. Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the ARC of this book in return for my honest review.

In my opinion, the book was simply too long; the message could just as well have been conveyed in a series of op-eds. Plus, I'm not crazy about the title. While I don't disagree with it, it doesn't command the respect that the subject matter deserves.

My review is very simple. If you love Keith, you will love this book. If you hate Keith, don't bother picking up this book. If you are indifferent to Keith, you haven't been paying attention to the past few years. I love Keith and thus I love this book. Pure Keith, in all his glory!!

This is... not great. I agree politically with Olberman but this just felt like a book long rant. It’s made up of articles written from last September on, with the original dates mentioned, and I can see how, at the time they were written, these rants would be more relevant. Now that the election can’t be changed, it feels like these rants are just yelling into the void. It’s like reading hundreds of pages of an angry Facebook page.

I loved this book because, frankly, I am in the same political league as he is. That's probably biased as such but he brought out so many facts most Americans don't know about. Of course, a Trump supporter will not like it but since I agree with Mr. Olbermann, I thought is was a well presented set of facts.

MSNBC political commentator Keith Olbermann chronicled the Trump campaign, election, and aftermath in a series for GQ called The Resistance. This book is a collection of those commentaries, opinions, rants, analyses, and carefully-crafted insults in chronological order. (The insults are pretty amazing.)

There were some moments I'd missed despite the news I consume, especially in relation to this election and administration. A favorite: the New York Times reported an anecdote of then-campaign chairman Steve Bannon's pants literally catching on fire caused by a hot light while he and aides "agonized" over what words to feed into a teleprompter.

Olbermann is bluntly outspoken, refreshingly so, although at times his tone can be grating because of the chatty style and direct addresses of the material to Trump, and his remarks repetitive. Much of the structure of the writing seems specifically designed to appeal to internet age readers, those more interested in reading quick, quippy, high-gloss screeds instead of in-depth commentary or analysis. I prefer the latter, although with as many jokes and light-heartedness as possible, so the tone didn't always feel quite right for me.

Or maybe it's meant to be easily consumed by shorter attention spans, in which case, we need any way of disseminating information we can get, so I'll take it.

And this is important work that he's doing - providing step by step callouts against Trump and all of his madness, shining spotlights on the administration's wrongdoings and distraction techniques. There's not much that gets by Olbermann, that's for sure. And he doesn't bother to hold his tongue about anything either. This is so important, this speaking out, this constant reminding that none of this - what's happening now and lately - is normal. It wasn't normal under any of Trump's predecessors, not even during the Nixon era, it's only normal in countries whose democracies are not as nominally advanced and open as ours. We need that. We need that to no end, because the opposition is working very hard to gaslight us into believing their narrative of alternative facts.

Olbermann meticulously catalogs Trump's libraries of lies - a not insignificant feat - painful as it is to be reminded. Like how Trump became notorious for throwing out anyone he viewed as a protestor or dissenter at his campaign rallies, effectively shielding his fragile ego from having to hear even the slightest disagreement. It's not a matter of opinion or conjecture, it's all clearly visible on highly replayed tapes from his rallies - how he screams "Get 'em out, get 'em outta here," offers to pay supporters' legal bills if they assault someone, remarks that in other times such protestors would've been shot for exercising their right to free speech, and accused protestors as they're being forcibly removed from his rallies of being paid Hillary Clinton plants.

Yet this hypocritical know-nothing turned around and crowed about how Obama supposedly was yelling at and fighting with protestors while stumping for Hillary; quoth Trump: "Wherever I go, I see him screaming at people that are protestors..." of course, later issuing an order after seeing a Clinton poster unrolled at the same Nevada event to "take him out." The man was then jumped, punched, and grabbed in the groin. "While you are lying, Trump, about how Obama handled a protestor, you incited your own crowd to beat up a protestor," Olbermann says.

Or his speech to the widow of U.S. Navy Special Operator Senior Chief William "Ryan" Owens, who died during a controversial raid that was denied approval by the Obama administration. He said, "Ryan is looking down right now and he's very happy because I think he just broke a record [for the length of an ovation]."

That moment made my blood boil. It was actually difficult to read this and think about that incident again. This buffoon actually thinks that a senselessly killed person is looking back at his devastated family and he's happy because he broke a record for clapping? I try not to bust a blood vessel over that one but it's tough.

Now about those incredible insults he lobs around. Some favorites:

a sadistic bully with a cult but not a clue

a triple-chinned bull in a nuclear china shop

Russia's whore

Trump as someone who "wanders into the mental woods" even during important occasions like bipartisan meetings with Senators to discuss his Supreme Court nominee

He first had to wade through the involuntary egotism and spasmodic salesmanship with which he thinks he cloaks the most insecure man of our times from public view."

on his neverending stupid feud with the New York Times: "Still obsessing over one newspaper as if he were fifteen and it had refused to go with him to the junior prom."

So yes, to reference the title, he does think Trump is crazy, which gets a lot of attention here, as well as that ultra-fragile ego.

It's worth the read if only to find your favorites amongst Olbermann's pointed and brilliant insults towards this man who has inspired so much irate creativity.

Really fascinating was Olbermann's detailing of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, which intriguingly allows the President to be removed, without the process of impeachment, if the Vice President and a two-thirds vote from the Cabinet agree that he's in some way unfit. Olbermann's book-length argument, distilled on a variety of fronts throughout these chapters and in The Closer and The Resistance, is that Trump is extremely mentally unfit. The reasons aren't entirely clear, or whatever combination of reasons are involved, but there's ample evidence that something upstairs isn't right.

This amendment was created in response to Woodrow Wilson's behavior after suffering a stroke that didn't allow him to realize how impaired he actually was. There's an argument that his behavior at this time may have led the country into World War II.

This gave me so much hope. Who knows, but knowing there's another option available makes me optimistic.

I also learned that "...nine years ago, Dmitry Rybolovlev bought a Palm Beach mansion from Trump, reportedly for about $50 million more than it was worth...twice during the campaign and again as recently as last month, Rybolovlev's private plane landed at a U.S. airport just before, or just after, Trump's private plane landed at the same airport."

Like I said, he doesn't miss much and he's not shy about spilling the details.

An angry, funny, often enlightening but sometimes rehashed argumentative book that's unlikely to change any minds that weren't already in Olbermann's camp, but it does provide a little balm and laughs for those of us who need the constant reminder that nothing about Trump is normal, and something is in fact deeply wrong.

As always Keith presents facts you can not get anywhere else. All in one place concisely presented. The book is an easy read with the facts easy to put together. I enjoyed Keith on MSNBC and miss seeing him every night. This book reminded me of how smart our TV news people USED to be. I highly recommend this book!

Holy cannoli, this is just a giant ranting echo chamber of anger.

Those who agree with Keith Olbermann's assessment of Donald Trump will not find any new material. Those who disagree with him and have a positive view of Trump will disagree with him even MORE, and will become more solidified in their support of Trump in defiance. This book serves to please those in the echo chamber, reinforce pro-Trump and anti-media beliefs in Trump supporters, and will not change anyone's opinion on anything.

Essentially, this is just angry rant preaching to the choir, and the outrage is becoming exhausting.

I have been watching Keith Olbermann on YouTube since he began his near-daily commentary on Trump, “The Closer” — now “The Resistance” — in September 2016. I was glad to hear Olbermann’s voice again, indignant, literate and darkly funny. It had been a long time, and thank you to the editor and the folks at GQ for giving Olbermann a platform for the modern streaming viewership.

When Olbermann began advertising Trump is Fucking Crazy at the end of his “Resistance” videos, I wondered if reading the scripts of the videos would be as powerful as hearing his voice: sarcastic and withering, doubting and questioning (and definitely insulted by the raft of Republicans towing Trump’s canoe up this River of Doubt). Would his tone survive print?

Reader, I am happy to tell you it does.

Now this may be a by-product of the fact that as a FAN, I have subscribed on YouTube to the stream from GQ so I don’t miss Olbermann, rushing home each evening to see if another video has posted. The days there isn’t a new rant from Olbermann, I’ll admit it: I sheet cake. Or layer cake. Or sometimes, I eclair. But I can hear Olbermann’s voice as clear as day while reading Trump is Fucking Crazy, and I think that anyone who has watched him on TV over the past 30+ years will hear him loud and clear, too. 

The indignant Olbermann has pulled together fellow-travelers who find themselves questioning reality on a daily basis: This is our country? THIS GUY is our President? Olbermann helps to concentrate the myriad, scattered indignities into a cohesive, undigestible bolus for us to upchuck and toss back at the presidency that is actively doing us wrong. Olbermann is the emetic cure for the foul, bacterial Trump that has been jammed down the throats of reasonable and intelligent people. 

Thank you Keith, for keeping us regular until we can shit this ersatz-President and his goons out of office.

Resist. Peace.