Obamas Are Adapting Book About The Trump Administration for Netflix

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Barack and Michelle Obama have bought the rights to the nonfiction book The Fifth Risk, which is considered one of the most scathing accounts of Donald Trump’s presidency to date — with “interweaving research and interviews to paint an alarming portrait of an administration whose unpreparedness and incompetence have put the government’s stability and functionality in grave danger,” Entertainment Weekly reports. 

The book’s author, Michael Lewis, revealed the news on Katie Couric’s podcast. The goal for the adaption is to “come up with a series for Netflix to help people better understand the government,” as Katie said. 

USA Today said of the book: “…a brilliant indictment of Trump and his appointees’ foolhardy ignorance of what federal agencies actually do and how.”