Introduction -- Part one: The beginning and the beginning of the end. A restive lion wintering in Mar-a-Lago -- Five strategic failures & the fall of the White House of Trump -- An insider's look at a West Wing dumpster -- Part two: Prelude to a post-mortem. The coming China wars gets my Trump ball rolling -- A two-day Big Apple popover turns into a five-year tour -- The November 9thers cometh and an RNC original sin -- An ambassador strategy and some shuttle diplomacy -- What a handshake deal is worth in Manhattan -- Part three: Let the West Wing games being & lessons learned. American carnage, cheap seats, and a cabinet of clowns -- My hard pratfall from Trumpian grace -- Process delayed, diluted, or derailed is Trump policy denied -- A "where's my Peter" battle cry and Oval Office resurrection -- Bad personnel PLUS bad process is bad policy is bad politics -- Part four: From China hawks to China appeasers. The road to reelection runs through Beijing -- A Wilbur Ross ZTE belly flop -- Whiffing and waffling on Huawei -- My TikTok Aaron Sorkin West Wing moment -- A slave labor debacle debases the Situation Room -- Part five: That's the way the blue wall didn't crumble. The iron MAGA triangle of populist economic nationalism -- A deplorable basket of buy American executive orders -- The last MAGA tango in Clyde -- Part six: The Hillary Clinton campaign on quaaludes. From Trump force one to Hillary's Hindenburg -- The Bannon cavalry rides into a Kushner ditch -- Part seven: Playing checkers in speed chess world. Stimulus interruptus and the Trump MAGA trillion -- V-shaped Kudlow nonsense in a K-shaped world -- Part eight: Ink by the barrel, cable by the mile. The inglorious never-Trump media bastards -- Dominate the news cycle or be dominated -- A White House confederacy of media dunces -- Fauci, Russia, and the ghost of Buch v. Gore -- Part nine: Take it back in 2024. Tearing down the Pelosi House in 2022 -- No Facebook, no Fox, no problem -- Good personnel is good policy is good politics.