Anonymous anti-Trump op-ed writer has a book coming out


The anonymous op-ed writer is still very anonymous.
But there might be a lot more linguistic clues to figure out their identity coming soon, along with a whole new look inside the Trump White House. That's because the anonymous senior official who wrote a New York Times op-ed about the silent "resistance" working under President Trump is writing a whole book called A Warning, their publisher said Tuesday.
It's been more than a year since an op-ed by an anonymous Trump senior official appeared in The New York Times, calling Trump's leadership style "impetuous, adversarial, petty, and ineffective" and saying they are among a quiet "resistance" trying to stop Trump from executing the worst decisions. Pretty much every Trump official denied they wrote it, and the author's identity still hasn't been revealed.
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Now, that person has written a whole book promising to be an expansion of the "behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency" they wrote for the Times. The author's literary agent wouldn't comment on whether the person still worked for the White House, but did say they will "donate a substantial amount of any royalties to the White House Correspondents Association and other organizations that fight for a free press that seeks the truth," per the Times.
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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.
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