In case you haven’t heard, there’s a gossipy new book out by Michael Wolff called Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House that’s based on over 200 interviews with people familiar with the inner-workings of the Trump presidency and it has Donald J. freaking the F out:
I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist. Look at this guy’s past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2018
The book makes all sorts of shocking claims about Trump, his administration, and all the illegal sh*t he did to get elected to a job he never really wanted to begin with. It also paints a grim picture of the Donald and Melania’s 12-year marriage.
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Wolff claims Donald frequently brags about Melania being his “trophy wife,” and barely pays attention to her when she’s around:
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He spoke of Melania frequently when she wasn’t there. He admired her looks—often, awkwardly for her, in the presence of others. She was, he told people proudly and without irony, a “trophy wife.” And while he may not have quite shared his life with her, he gladly shared the spoils of it. “A happy wife is a happy life,” he said, echoing a popular rich-man truism.
Yes, the happiness she exudes on a daily basis is almost palpable:
No that she seems to mind. The book also claims the couple spend as little time with one another as possible:
Donald Trump‘s marriage was perplexing to almost everybody around him—or it was, anyway, for those without private jets and many homes. He and Melania spent relatively little time together. They could go days at a time without contact, even when they were both in Trump Tower.
Often she did not know where he was, or take much notice of that fact. Her husband moved between residences as he would move between rooms.
Wolff writes that before becoming First Lady, most of Melania’s time was “entirely focused on her young son,” rather than her husband, who Wolff alleges is a more or less “absentee father.”
This certainly computes with what Trump told Howard Stern back in 2005 when he said:
I mean, I won’t do anything to take care of them. I’ll supply funds and she’ll take care of the kids. It’s not like I’m gonna be walking the kids down Central Park. Marla used to say, ‘I can’t believe you’re not walking Tiffany down the street,’ you know in a carriage. Right, I’m gonna be walking down Fifth Avenue with a baby in a carriage. It just didn’t work.
The first lady’s communications director Stephanie Grisham responded to the book in true Trump fashion… by hurling insults: “The book is clearly going to be sold in the bargain fiction section. Mrs. Trump supported her husband’s decision to run for president and in fact encouraged him to do so. She was confident he would win and was very happy when he did.”
Riiiight.
Here’s the photo of Melania watching the election returns in 2016, moments before her husband was declared the winner:
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leobaga
The Hag email investigation reopened.
Offshore drilling wide open.
Drug testing for welfare rats.
Economy BOOMING!
ROCK ON President Trump!
kevin57
Let’s see. Putin probably is paying $25/word. Will you be reporting your $500 to the IRS. The new tax law should be quite generous to you.
Juanjo
Troll deflection attempt detected.
Kangol
Economy “booming”? You’re off your rocker! Even Trumpster house organ Faux News had to admit he’s still behind Obama, who inherited the worst economic crisis, from George W. Bush, since the Great Depression. Trump’s in serious trouble, and even his Rasputin Bannon admitted his son’s behavior was “treasonous”–they’re all in trouble, the whole corrupt gang!
@FoxNewsResearch
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Average Monthly #Job Gains
-by year
•2017: 171,000
•2016: 187,000
•2015: 226,000
•2014: 250,000
•2013: 192,000
•2012: 179,000
•2011: 174,000
•2010: 88,000
dwes09
So Kangol dealt with the jobs myth. Here’s a few other comments from the world of the sane:
The economy is not “booming”, but as most economists state, simply continuing on the momentum built with difficulty over the past 8 years.
The combination of opening all areas for offshore drilling while at the same time gutting the regulation that has kept it from being totally damaging is a dangerous road to go down. All the regulation put in place after the gulf fire and spill has been removed or is being removed. But I guess if you don’t eat seafood, don’t like to go to the beach, don’t have any economic dependence on tourism, don’t have any understanding of the importance of marine ecosystems, or don’t support the development of alternative energy sources or energy efficiency (driving huge economic growth everywhere but in the US), deregulation of dangerous industry is just fine.
As for drug testing of welfare recipients: I realize that actual facts are of little use to regressives like you and other trump toadies, but in states where it was tried it was found unequivocally to be a huge waste of money! There were almost no recipients testing positive for anything. But that’s OK, you probably like the idea of stressing already stresses families still further, and you are probably amused by the idea of increasing hunger and malnutrition among the nations poor, addled as you are by the backwards notion that they are all just lazy and deserve to be where they are.
Interestingly, while cutting benefits to dependent families, your man-child has simultaneously cut funding to retrain people in outmoded industries and keep them off welfare. None of you ever actually use your brains (other than the reptilian part) do you?
Bob LaBlah
Why did you leave off free warm water enemas for gay website trolls?
DCguy
It’f funny, the thing that causes the most panicked desperation from the Trump Trolls has to do with Melania. Sounds like they themselves know the Marriage is a sham.
jckfmsincty
I-M-P-E-A-C-H
leobaga
How can you impeach the president when the dem Party has no power? You silly.
DeserTBoB
LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!
leobaga
*HER. Crooked’s case has just been reopened.
KaiserVonScheiss
How is this gay related? Oh, it isn’t.
Kangol
She’s a gay GOP icon, or should be.
dwes09
Because the trump administration is quietly undoing the legal and legislative progress we have made (most obviously with the spreading exemptions in non-discrimination legislation for “religious belief”, but in other ways as well) anything having to do with him and his milieu is gay related. And don’t bring up the ambassador to Germany, he is about as opposed to full lgbt enfranchisement as a homosexual person can be (he supported allowing federal contractors to discriminate in hiring, his support for same sex marriage is only because of the benefit it gives him personally).
But, as the emperor of shit, I would not expect you to understand that. Especially with your head so far between the trump cheeks that you are eating the stuff over which you rule).
He BGB
She cried when he won, allegedly
dwes09
So Kangol dealt with the jobs myth. Here’s a few other comments from the world of the sane:
The economy is not “booming”, but as most economists state, simply continuing on the momentum built with difficulty over the past 8 years.
The combination of opening all areas for offshore drilling while at the same time gutting the regulation that has kept it from being totally damaging is a dangerous road to go down. All the regulation put in place after the gulf fire and spill has been removed or is being removed. But I guess if you don’t eat seafood, don’t like to go to the beach, don’t have any economic dependence on tourism, don’t have any understanding of the importance of marine ecosystems, or don’t support the development of alternative energy sources or energy efficiency (driving huge economic growth everywhere but in the US), deregulation of dangerous industry is just fine.
As for drug testing of welfare recipients: I realize that actual facts are of little use to regressives like you and other trump toadies, but in states where it was tried it was found unequivocally to be a huge waste of money! There were almost no recipients testing positive for anything. But that’s OK, you probably like the idea of stressing already stresses families still further, and you are probably amused by the idea of increasing hunger and malnutrition among the nations poor, addled as you are by the backwards notion that they are all just lazy and deserve to be where they are.
Interestingly, while cutting benefits to dependent families, your man-child has simultaneously cut funding to retrain people in outmoded industries and keep them off welfare. None of you ever actually use your brains (other than the reptilian part) do you?
Cai
I wish news sites would disclose that these kinds of articles are little more than fodder to promote some new book. ?
1EqualityUSA
If I never saw another member of this family ever again, it would be too soon.
mhoffman953
Just when I thought the anti-Trump people reached peak “Trump derangement syndrome”, they increase the hysteria to new levels.
The book seems to be a big contradiction filled with hearsay. In one breath, the author states that “Trump didn’t want to be President” but then we’re also supposed to believe that “Trump wanted to be President so bad that he colluded with Russians to win the election”
In other instances we’re supposed to believe “Trump isn’t really a conservative and is more liberal and dangerous than Hillary Clinton” but in another instance we’re supposed to believe “Trump is a far right wing racist comparable to Hitler”
Lastly we’re told “Trump is a moron and as smart as a child” but then we’re told “Trump is a mastermind who made a career out of getting rich from scamming people and conspired with foreign governments to defeat the most qualified and experienced person to ever run for President along with 17 Republicans candidates in his first real run at any political office”
You people need to pick one story and stick to it
Kangol
Mhoffman, if it’s filled with “hearsay,” why is Trump so upset and raging like a maniac? When people published nonsensical books about Clinton, about W. Bush, and about Obama, they laughed it off. But Michael Wolff was in the White House. He has notes and tapes. He basically got Bannon to run his mouth like a beer tap. That’s why Trump’s so upset. He knows the truth is now out there, conforming everything many already knew about him. And his close advisor and former campaign manager not only said Trump Jr.’s and Kushner’s behavior was “treasonous,” but he also contradicted a major lie Trump & Co. put out there. He’s placed them in serious jeopardy.
mhoffman953
@Kangol
You did a good job of not addressing any of the contradictions I wrote. The author of the book alleges that “Trump didn’t want to be President” but if that’s true why are media outlets and opponents of President Trump claiming “Trump wanted to be President so bad that he colluded with the Russian government to win the election”?
As far as “why is Trump so upset”, President Trump always attacks back at individuals who attack him first. If Trump didn’t respond, you would claim the author is telling the truth but if Trump does respond negatively, you would still claim the author is telling the truth. You’re exhibiting the definition of confirmation bias.
Brody
It’s called “grabbing at straws” when their shoo-in of a candidate lost to someone who couldn’t possibly have won, and when they find no such straws, they begin with the fabrications which they hope the lesser-intelligent buy in to.
ALLENGRUNDEN
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Tête Carrée
Queerty, stop being so cheap and get a decent comments host with a “report Spam” button.
Brody
Attacking Trump’s family is the left’s way of declaring intellectual bankruptcy.
They resort to such measures whenever they run out of facts and logic.
It proves how truly shallow and desperate they are to discredit a sitting president.
Not to mention it has all the rhetorical eloquence of a turd-flinging chimp.
leobaga
But you have to admit watching the left cry is quite entertaining. It’s hilarious! I especially like the part when they call Trump , Hitler. Then he made Jerusalem capital of Israel. Giggles. Then another one when they said Trump will destroy the economy, we’re all going to die. Now, the economy is breaking records after records. Chuckles.
THE BEST TIME LINE!
Kangol
Girl, please!
“Attacking Trump’s family is the left’s way of declaring intellectual bankruptcy.” Where were you when the Right did it to the Obamas? And Clintons? Etc. Get a grip.
“They resort to such measures whenever they run out of facts and logic.” Back atcha, hunty.
“It proves how truly shallow and desperate they are to discredit a sitting president.” See above. Oh, and Obama won twice with healthy margins but that didn’t stop the nutcase GOP. Did you speak out, Mo-Brody? Nope.
“Not to mention it has all the rhetorical eloquence of a turd-flinging chimp.” You shouldn’t talk about self-described “genius” Trump that way. He’s flinging poo like a crazy person this morning on Twitter.
Brody
leobaga –
They hate Trump not only because he (impossibly! illegally! collusionally!) left Queen Hillary with egg on her face, but his record of accomplishment in one year has exceeded eight years of Obama’s supposed magical era of hope and change. The only way history won’t laugh at the Democrats during this time is if they can bring down Trump, and the futility in their failed attempts to make anything stick to him (Hitler! Homophobe! Misogynist! Rapist!) has been more than entertaining, it’s been an amusing revelation of how desperate and rudderless they are.
mhoffman953
@Brody
“The only way history won’t laugh at the Democrats during this time is if they can bring down Trump”
They can’t. They tried with the “muh Russia” stuff and now that’s dying off, so they wanted the “obstruction of justice” stuff when there isn’t anything there. Thus, they’re left with “mental fitness”, so they’ll try to say the President is deranged to get him impeached.
The left wants him out of power so bad because they can’t beat him since he fights back and wins. They rather have Republicans of the past who would cower when attacked by their opponents on issues because that would be easier to defeat with their puppet candidate.
The elites on the left cry about “universal healthcare” and “free college”, but instead of funding those efforts, they’ll throw tens of billions of dollars in the garbage to attack Trump. The left will eat it up though and give those people more money through donations and purchases of dumb books.
petej
we’ll never know what section in the bookstore “fire and fury” will be in. they’re selling out before they can be placed.
leobaga
This is a great thing. It’s nice to see the libtards waste their money. Love it!
Kangol
@leobaga, it’s sold out in Trump country! Trumpkin bots like you are so clueless it hurts!
Heywood Jablowme
Miserable Melania!
Sloppy Steve!
TRAITOR TRUMP!
leobaga
Great nicknames. Crooked Hillary is still the best though!
Bob LaBlah
I wonder where the hell is ol’ Kitty Kelley? At a time like this normally she is the first one up to the plate with a tell-all book.
Tombear
Kitty Kelly died years ago
Blackceo
Oh well heifa. Be miserable. Its what she deserves.
Tombear
I don’t think Melania even has sex with Donald. Can you imagine those two having sex? I think I just threw up in my mouth!