President Donald Trump is painted in legendary reporter Bob Woodward’s new book as impetuous, impulsive and easily distracted. | Susan Walsh Trump says he'll 'write the real book' to counter Woodward's

President Donald Trump promised Monday that he would "write the real book" to set the record straight on his administration, once again lashing out against veteran Washington reporter Bob Woodward, whose incendiary book about the Trump White House will be released this week.

"The Woodward book is a Joke — just another assault against me, in a barrage of assaults, using now disproven unnamed and anonymous sources. Many have already come forward to say the quotes by them, like the book, are fiction," Trump tweeted on Monday morning. "Dems can’t stand losing. I’ll write the real book!"


Trump added on Twitter, "The White House is a 'smooth running machine.' We are making some of the biggest and most important deals in our country’s history — with many more to come! The Dems are going crazy!"

The Woodward book is a Joke - just another assault against me, in a barrage of assaults, using now disproven unnamed and anonymous sources. Many have already come forward to say the quotes by them, like the book, are fiction. Dems can’t stand losing. I’ll write the real book! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 10, 2018

Already the top seller on Amazon, Woodward's "Fear" has been a subject of significant discussion in Washington since excerpts were first released last week. The book portrays an administration struggling to rein in Trump, who is characterized in the book as impetuous, impulsive and easily distracted. Passages in the book describe instances of Trump advisers removing documents on certain issues from the president's desk to keep him from seeing or signing them.

The book also quotes the president calling Attorney General Jeff Sessions "mentally retarded" and a "dumb Southerner."

The president has vehemently denied the book's accuracy, tweeting last week that the book is a "scam," uses "lies and phony sources," and that he doesn't "talk the way I am quoted." Members of the Trump administration have joined the president in attacking the book, and accusing Woodward, the Watergate journalist who has published 20 books on the White House since the Nixon era.

"I think the main problem in that book is the two-person conversations that are being related without the second person ever being consulted. Did you say this? Is it true?" White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said on "Fox & Friends" Monday morning.

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Woodward, however, did seek out an interview with Trump multiple times over the course of his reporting. The Washington Post published a transcript of Woodward's phone conversation with Trump, in which he told Trump that he asked about six people for an interview with the president, including Conway and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

Conway, who was in the room for at least a portion of Trump's phone conversation with Woodward, said she did put in Woodward's request, but that it was rejected, telling Woodward "I can only take it so far," according to the transcript.

"I don't suspect Bob Woodward himself would have checked the facts, but how about a fact-checker in some of these publishing offices," Conway added on Fox Monday morning. "This is probably the fourth or fifth book in a row where folks aren't necessarily checking the facts with the people who have the quotes attributed to them."