Regime Change

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan — Published by Simon & Schuster (June 23, 2026)

#1 New York Times Bestseller

From the two reporters who have covered him more closely than perhaps anyone else over the past decade comes this definitive portrait of Donald Trump in the White House. Regime Change covers the first year of Trump's second presidency — a term liberated from every constraint that defined his first. The generals who once told him "no" are gone, and the lawyers who remain have learned to pick their battles. His administration has flouted court orders and he has claimed powers that Congress once checked. What remains is a President willing to take enormous risks that have upended global markets and toppled heads of state; an imperial President operating almost entirely on instinct alone.

Drawing on interviews with more than 1,000 sources, Haberman and Swan reveal a second term propelled by a historical irony that Trump himself has come to embrace: that the indictments, the convictions, the assassination attempts, and four years of exile made him not weaker but far more powerful. The book offers an intimate look at the workings of the second Trump White House, including the president's foreign policy decisions and his self-conception as a transformative figure in history.

Maggie Haberman is a New York Times White House correspondent and part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018. She is the author of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. Jonathan Swan is also a White House correspondent for the New York Times, widely recognized for his incisive interviews and deep sourcing within the Trump orbit. Together, they have produced what critics have called a riveting and consequential work of political reporting.