Donald Trump doesn't usually get too worked up over books, at least if he didn't "write" them. But Michael Wolff's upcoming behind-the-scenes account of Trump's first year in office, the Game of Thrones-sounding Fire and Fury, has caught the president's attention.

This is the book that seems to have finally burned the bridge between Trump and Steve Bannon, the head of Breitbart and the guy you know is smart because he keeps telling you that he is. Bannon told Wolff some unkind (though maybe not untrue) things about Donald Trump, Jr., and Papa Trump quickly lashed out. The feud has only escalated since, with Alex Jones jumping in to attack Bannon's personal grooming, and, the iciest burn of all, Ivanka unfollowing Bannon on Twitter.

While it's entertaining to see these literal grown-ups immediately dissolve into petty messes, there's still the matter of the upcoming book. One of Donald Trump's well-known, non-sexually graphic obsessions is making deals. He is allegedly very good at it, at least according to him. So if he wanted to keep the publisher, Henry Holt, from releasing a potentially embarrassingbook, maybe he could find a way to negotiate with them.

But of course, Trump can't make a deal to save his life. He's shown no ability to negotiate with anyone and has barely been able to work with his people in his own party. So when his lawyer sent a cease-and-desist letter to Henry Holt, demanding the book not be published, it of course backfired. Instead of withholding the book, the publisher announced that they're bumping up the release to this Friday, four days earlier than planned.

Undoubtedly, someone out there is going to argue that Trump is some cosmic-brained master tactician, and that this was his plan all along. But even if we give Trump enough credit to assume that he has the forethought to sometimes tweet nonsense as a distraction from news he doesn't like, that's a big jump to assume the same thing here. For one thing, he seems legitimately upset with Bannon, and for another, a tweet would have sufficed instead of a cease-and-desist letter. It seems much more likely that he just doesn't want people reading about his reported fast food fixation or how he allegedly never wanted to be president in the first place.

On the upside, this was time he didn't spend trying to negotiate with North Korea, which means he wasn't goading a world leader into nuclear war.