A former adviser to Donald Trump wrote in a revealing e-book that the president’s disgust with the press was so intense that he sought to see them absolutely excluded from the White House, encouraged through a stopover in North Korea.
Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, who did not hold a single press conference during her 2019-2020 term, tells the story in her post-Trump memoirs, I’ll Answer Your Questions Now, which has generated a lot of headlines since then. via TheWashington Post.
As the New York Times reported, Ms. Grisham claims that after Trump in North Korea, she was tasked with moving the press as far away from the president’s orbit as possible. “I looked for other places where we could put them besides the press convention hall,” he writes. Every time the president asked me about my progress on the issue, I let him know that I was still looking for options. “
Ms. Grisham’s delight as press secretary has been, she says, a glove, even though she has completely withdrawn from informing herself. “I knew that faster or later the president would need me to tell the public anything that wasn’t true or that made me look crazy,” she wrote.
Among the demands, he writes in the book, Trump’s concept of holding a briefing in which he would recreate the phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that led to the president’s first impeachment.
Beyond the topic of White House quotes with the media, I’ll Take Your Questions now has sensational claims and stories ranging from the sinister and ridiculous to the sinister and terrifying.
In the first basket, Trump is said to have asked an aide to blow up to calm him down and to call Air Force One’s Mrs. Grisham to protect the length of her penis in opposition to the unflattering descriptions of the stormy Daniels. On the less funny side, Ms. Grisham writes that the president told Vladimir Putin that he alone played a “tough” role for the cameras before the two spoke privately.
Trump made his opinion of Grisham’s e-book transparent with a series of insulting statements.
“Stephanie didn’t have what was needed and it’s evident from the start,” he said through a spokeswoman. “She has become very angry and bitter after her breakup and over time rarely invoked or even considered it. “