Life in a world without books sometimes means you don't realize when you're becoming one.

Michael Wolff confirms Tony Schwartz's observations about the President's reading habits, and his administration's view of thought:

Speaking of that Rupert Murdoch biography, it seems Trump was not aware of the content of that book, which was quite critical. Yet he was talking to Murdoch during your reporting.

It's mystifying to me. I don't know if I came up. The distinct feeling that you have when you say that you're writing a book is that these guys don't care about you. You're a kind of non-entity. "A book." Trump is not getting excited about somebody writing a book.

Because he places no importance on books.

Yeah. They almost can't imagine what it is. I remember when the Murdoch book came out and Murdoch's guy [former News Corp. marketing and corporate affairs exec] Gary Ginsberg, called me, furious, and said, "What is this? The book is all about him!" I said, "It's a biography." And Ginsberg says, "But it's so personal." That's when I realized, these guys don't just not read books — they don't know what books are.

Fire and Fury all began with a cover story on Trump in this publication. Do you think he ever read that story? Because it wasn't very flattering.

No, I don't think he read it. And one of the threads that runs through this book is that he doesn't read anything. People tell him what's in an article — that's what Hope Hicks does — and she probably told him it was great. It's easier if he thinks it's great.

It also appears in the book that when the President tweeted he was reading about President Andrew Jackson early in his term, he wasn't. Steve Bannon was feeding him material in an attempt to put a narrative framework around an incoherent set of ideas.