2020 CONCORDIA ANNUAL SUMMIT

Bob Woodward In Conversation

Main Stage

• Bob Woodward discussed his emotions and methods surrounding the process of cultivating and producing his book Rage, which is a critical analysis of President Trump and a follow-up to his previous investigation, Fear: Trump in the White House, published in 2018.
• Frank Luntz probed Woodward to candidly express his opinions on Trump’s success, or lack thereof, as the president of the American people. Woodward dived into his perspective on truth and truth telling, and the complexities of understanding Trump’s presidential strategies from his election to his management of the Black Lives Matter movement and the outbreak of COVID-19.

“We should really worry. He [Donald Trump] does not know what he is saying, and he says contradictory things all the time. It’s not going away. It is getting worse,” Bob Woodward