Donald Trump has made it clear to Javanka that he wants them to leave DC
April 4, 2018
Michael Wolff’s book about Donald Trump, Fire and Fury, ended up being a huge bestseller and a major political story. Author Ronald Kessler is trying to do the same thing with his new book, The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game. The thing is that Kessler is more pro-Trump, and the narratives within the book are more gentle and and flattering to Emperor Baby Fists. That being said, Kessler is still making and breaking some news here and there. Here are some of the assorted stories/headlines from the book:
Bigly is an “anonymous source.” Apparently, Trump often calls up reporters to confirm or deny sh-t as an anonymous source, or asks to be credited as “a White House staffer.” Kessler writes: “Trump phones Maggie Haberman of the New York Times directly, as well as Philip Rucker of the Washington Post, and Jonathan Swan of Axios, feeding them stories attributed to ‘a senior White House official,’ creating the impression the White House leaks even more than it already does. In other cases, the media has picked up reports on what Trump himself has said to his friends.” Trump is obsessed with his coverage in the New York Times in particular and he “wants eventually to win” Haberman over.
Kellyanne Conway is the #1 leaker: Kessler said that his book had “juicy tidbits” from the White House and mentioned that during one interview with Conway, she forgot she was on the record and blasted her colleagues including former chief of staff Reince Priebus as well as Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. He added, “If you wonder why there are so many leaks out of the White House, one reason is Kellyanne Conway is the number one leaker.”
Javanka doesn’t know sh-t. Sources say Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are “problems” in the administration. He writes that they have “no understanding of the basic fundamentals of how government works” and how they have no “understanding of the political consequences of their actions.” He also adds how the two had a hand in “the most disastrous and foolish decisions of Trump’s presidency” and how they were pushing Comey’s firing and Anthony Scaramucci’s hiring.
Trump has second thoughts about Precious Jared. Trump thought Jared looked like a “little boy, like a child” when he spoke on-camera to deny Russian collusion. Trump also apparently told Jared and Ivanka that “they never should have left New York.” He “made it clear to them that he would not mind if they gave up their White House roles.”
Melania Trump is a political savant. Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon both claim that Melania is a “very powerful behind-the-scenes force,” and “Melania knows who the bullsh-t artists are. She knows the promoters, the guys looking out for themselves and not Trump, and she lets him know it.” Apparently, Melania reads too! A source claimed, “Melania reads widely, both publications and articles on the Internet. As she said to me at Mar-a-Lago while sitting next to Trump at dinner, ‘I read every one of your articles,’ referring to the ones I send her.” What are publications and the articles on the Internet about? “Current events and policy issues.”
[From People Magazine, Deadline and Vanity Fair]
The biggest story is the stuff about Javanka, I think. The bloom is off the rose, especially with Jared. I think Bigly will always be obsessed with Ivanka and want Ivanka close by, but even a demented, senile white supremacist a–hole can see that Jared Kushner is dumb and awful. As for Melania being some kind of political savant – no, she is not. If anything, she’s just a normal person with normal political instincts. But that’s so foreign in the Trump White House that she looks like a savant by comparison.
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