Rage is a book by the American journalist Bob Woodward about the first presidency of Donald Trump, published in 2020, by Simon & Schuster.

White House officials told Politico that Trump's respect for Woodward was rooted in his "1980s cultural mindset", which prioritized Time magazine covers and The New York Times, and made him respect Woodward as "an institution" as a result of his work in exposing the Watergate scandal, which led to the resignation of Richard Nixon.

The White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that Trump gave access to Woodward because he was "the most transparent president in history".

[4] Simon & Schuster stated that the book is the result of "hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand witnesses, as well as participants' notes, emails, diaries, calendars and confidential documents".

"[4][9] Nancy Cook and Alex Thompson wrote in Politico that Trump "[believed] he could charm the man who helped take down a president and chronicled half a dozen administrations over the past half-century" but that the revelations in the book "sent the Trump White House scrambling, with aides blaming one another for the predictable fallout from injecting even more chaos into an already challenging reelection race.

"[4] Woodward was criticized for not revealing Trump's thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States prior to the imminent release of the book.