You can usually tell a fair amount about a person by their taste in literature, which is why we've kept an eye what the President of the United States is reading. The 44th president, Barack Obama, preferred National Book Award-winning titles like The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. His successor, Donald J. Trump, has taken a different tact: He selflessly updated the Old State Department Library to include copies of his own books, and in a bombshell interview, he opened up about his favorite titles, such as "This One," and "That One, You Know."

And now, courtesy of an interview this week with Tucker Carlson, we have more insight into the president's literary diet:

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The leader of the free world is "looking" at books. Many people are saying that's the first step on the path towards reading one. Being president can be kind of time-consuming. But we're confident Trump will find a minute to read that very specific book he's referring to about Andrew Jackson, the genocidal dumpster of raging resentment whom he idolises.

It could be worse. He could be reading the same stuff as his senior adviser, Steve Bannon.

From: Esquire US