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Stephanie Grisham Book Craziest Details on Trump White House
Stephanie Grisham served as both White House Communications Director and Press Secretary for former President Donald Trump. Her ringside seat as a primary player in the administration gave her a perfect view of the disarray and “clown show” as she called it, which she has collected in an upcoming book I’ll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House, set for release Oct. 5.
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“When I worked for the first lady in the East Wing, we had all come to call Jared and Ivanka “the interns” because they represented in our minds obnoxious, entitled know-it-alls,” she writes. “Mrs. Trump found that nickname amusing and occasionally used it herself. Now, during one of the most important crises to hit the country in a century, the interns were behaving true to form.”
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Trump refused a month-long Vegan diet to raise money for Veterans for fear it would mess with his brain.
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Grisham called Trump’s handling of the Covid pandemic a “clown car on fire” … but impossibly worse.
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Grisham has little regard for Kushner and suggests he may have been advising Trump in his own best interest.
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Trump did NOT want to immediately ban travel from China and worried too much was initially being made by Covid.
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Despite no experience, Ivanka played a lead role in a critical meeting of how to address the pandemic:
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It is fair to say Grisham has mixed emotions about working for the Trump White House, which she described as such:
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Trump reportedly insisted — without irony — that he needed a P.T. Barnum as his spokesman
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These are just a few of the fascinating details revealed in the excerpt of the book. Yes, there have been scads of behind-the-scenes tell-all books about the Trump White House, but none from the perspective of the once-loyal Grisham, who only now, when it benefits her financially, is willing to tell a different story. Read the full excerpt here.