WASHINGTON, D.C.  Sept. 5 (DPI) – Readers across the internet weighed in on Bob Woodward’s new book about the Trump White House, and the reaction begs the question of how Trump can even stay in office much longer. One of the most popular comments on NYTimes.com today: “What’s most shocking about Woodward’s new book is that none of it is shocking.”

In some respects Woodward’s book is more of the same – more second-hand evidence of Trump’s dishonesty, fecklessness and incompetence. But, given Woodward’s stature as a reporter, it is all conveyed with more authority and credibility than previous descriptions of the Trump White House.

In fact, Woodward makes clear that his sources – clearly Gary Cohn, Reince Priebus, John Dowd,  Rob Porter, and perhaps even Steve Bannon and James Mattis – bring a new level of credibility to the descriptions of the Trump White House.   The book describes aides removing key documents from Trump’s desk without his knowledge, and moments when Trump shows the understanding of a grade-school student on international affairs.

Beside the release of the book, Woodward and his employer, The Washington Post, unveiled an 11-minute recording of a telephone conversation that took place last month between Trump and Woodward. In it, Trump claimed no one told him about several different requests by Woodward for an interview. Of course, Woodward probably was comfortable without the input from Trump, who would deny everything anyway.

Some of the most popular reader comments on NYTimes.com today:

I work in sales and have for over 30 years. One of my favorite expressions for getting someone to buy something is “what’s it going to take”. I’m curious as to what it will eventually take to convince members of Trump’s inalienable base that their man, is unfit to be president. Judging from what I’ve read about him, and witnessed firsthand over the years, he not really fit to be much of anything. The thrice married philanderer has proven he’s not fit to be a husband. His failure in business has evidenced by his numerous bankruptcies has proven he’s not fit to run a business. He cheats at golf so he’s not fit to participate in sports. He’s unable to comprehend basic science so he’s not fit to be a spokesman on climate issues. He’s unable to understand supply and demand / international trade so he’s not fit to dictate trade policies. He has no clue about who our friends are in the world, so he’s unfit to be an arbiter of treaties and alliances. In short, he’s exactly the kind of person you don’t want in charge of anything, much less the most powerful influential country on earth. So I ask, the members of his so-called base, “What’s it going to take?”

So now Kelly and others are denying they said what Woodward claims they have said in his book. If Bob Woodward has the tapes he claims he has then it’s very simple to prove the book is correct. The down side of all this is now Trump has been alerted and if they have been protecting the US from Trump the cover has been blown. What I find really disturbing is that if Trump’s staff is going out of their way to protect us from Trump by stealing papers from his desk and short circuiting some of his more radical decisions then why not go all the way and invoke the 25th Amendment. If Trump is a clear a present danger to our national security then he needs to be removed immediately.

I find it laughable that trump would say that Bob Woodward has credibility problems or that Sara Sanders would say it was ‘fabricated stories”. If I know anything about Bob Woodward – he is meticulous with his fact gathering. If trump et all need a refresher course, maybe they should screen ‘All the President’s Men” because suggesting they read the book would be ludicrous. Stacking a Pulitzer Prize winner up against the most prolific liar in the country? I think I will go with the Pulitzer Prize winner.

Unlike Mr. Wolff’s book, the new book by Bob Woodward cannot be easily ignored or dismissed. Mr. Woodward, by virtue of two Pulitzer prizes, his legendary reporting alongside Carl Bernstein in the Watergate scandal, and his subsequent authorship of several important book that chronicle the Presidency itself, carries enough gravitas to ensure what he will be taken seriously. The excerpts we’ve seen confirm the worst fears Trump critics and opponents have held all along: that Trump is a deeply flawed, uniquely unqualified person who should never have been handed the weighty responsibility of the most important job in the world. What remains to be seen is up to the voters themselves. If the voters choose to give control of the House and possibly the Senate to Democrats, Trump’s power will be checked and his actions subject to investigation and Trump himself possibly impeached. If the voters choose to affirm Trump’s Republican enablers, then as Steve Schmidt said this morning, “America is going to be a very different country ten years from now.”

I’m sick of all of this. So now we’re supposed to believe that the generals (Mattis, Kelly) are protecting us from total catastrophe. If these men really cared about their country they’d resign today and speak out against the men and women who made this present low point in our country’s history possible. I’m so sick of all of this. It appears to me that Mr Trump is not in total control of his faculties. Whether that’s from a life of privilege or the unfortunate happenings of old age, I don’t know. What I do know is he didn’t get to the White House by himself.

What’s most shocking about Woodward’s new book is that none of it is shocking.