New book exposes his lies, cruelty, and push toward autocratic rule
TORONTO, August 3, 2025 – Will the Trump administration's MAGA-fueled onslaught destroy the world’s oldest democracy? In searching for an answer, William Boardman’s latest book, Circling the Drain: Trump’s Assault on America, analyzes the chaos created by Trump’s hundreds of illegal executive orders, thousands of illegal deportations, and dozens of illegal assaults on law firms, universities, media companies, and other traditional pillars of civil society.“Our constitutional crisis began on Day One – January 20, 2025 – when Trump claimed the authority to rewrite the Constitution by executive order,” Boardman writes. “As of mid-2025, all three branches of government are controlled by radicals planning a totalitarian America.”With surgical precision, Boardman dissects the words and actions of President Donald Trump to lay bare his deluge of lies, criminality, cruelty, and ultimate aim: to replace America’s 250-year-old democracy with autocratic rule. All this derives from Trump’s frequent claim: “I was saved by God to make America great again.”In response, Boardman says “Circling the Drain is my urgent contribution to the struggle for democratic resistance – a call to action that arms readers with the most potent weapon against tyranny: truth.”He achieves this with a scathing analysis of Trump’s:
- Oval Office meeting where he assaults Ukrainian President Zelenski and demonstrates the diplomatic incompetence that underlies his failure to end the Russian war in a day, as promised in his campaign.
- Virtual State of the Union speech where he blatantly lies about his election “mandate,” the immigration “emergency,” DOGE “savings,” and other fantasies of his new “golden age of America.”
- Speech in the Great Hall of the Justice Department where he shamelessly lies about following the rule of law even as his administration deports innocent immigrants with no due process of law.