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Your support makes all the difference.Stephanie Grisham’s tell-all new memoir I’ll Take Your Questions Now has already generated reams of headlines before the book’s official release. The title carries a hint of irony, as the former White House press secretary never held an on-camera briefing for reporters.
Among the explosive claims in the book, Ms Grisham writes that the former president told Russian president Vladimir Putin he would but on a tough act for the cameras before the two spoke in private.
Ms Grisham claimed She also claimed her ex-boss called her from Air Force One to insist that his penis was not shaped like a mushroom, as alleged by former porn star Stormy Daniels.
On top of that, the book claims that first lady Melania Trump had her own way of getting back at her husband – by having a handsome US marine escort her at official events.
Mr Trump called Ms Grisham “angry and bitter” over his former press aide’s book.
In multiple statements, Mr Trump said Ms Grisham’s "untrue" claims were the result of a disgruntled employee who didn’t "have what it takes" after a break-up, in an apparent reference to her split with another White House official, Max Miller.
Preview copies of the book were obtained by The Washington Post and The New York Times ahead of its release on 5 October.
Trump asked Grisham’s then-boyfriend if she was ‘good in bed’, book claims
Donald Trump asked the boyfriend of Stephanie Grisham if she was good in bed, the former press secretary claims in her new book.
While the excerpt published in The Washington Post doesn’t name the ex-boyfriend, it is believed to be Max Miller, now a congressional candidate backed by Trump.
Trump reference the break up of the two in his response to Ms Grisham’s explosive claims.
"She became very angry and bitter after her break up and as time went on she was seldom relied upon, or even thought about,” Trump said in a statement.
Trump cuts his hair with huge, ribbon-cutting scissors, book claims
It’s unclear what is more surprising about this revelation: That Donald Trump cuts his hair, or that it is his own hair to cut.
“A huge pair of scissors that could probably cut a ribbon at an opening of one of his properties,” Stephanie Grisham says of how the former president cuts his own hair.
Trump’s hair has, for some reason, been a constant source of speculation.
His former physician was tracked down by The New York Times in 2017 to discuss the hair care regime that kept the thicket of locks on Trump well into his 70s.
Dr Harold N. Bornstein said in a series of interviews with the Times that Trump uses Finasteride to maintain the growth of his scalp hair.
“He has all his hair,” said Bornstein, who also used the drug. “I have all my hair.”
Staffers lied to prevent Trump from denying George HW Bush casket on Air Force One, book claims
When George HS Bush died in 2018, White House staffers hid a plan from Donald Trump to have Air Force one transport the former president’s casket and his service dog to the funeral.
While it’s tradition, Stephanie Grisham writes that they obscured the details from Trump in fear of his reaction.
“We knew he wouldn’t be okay with that, even for a brief trip,” Grisham writes. “Dead bodies, death, sickness — those things really seemed to creep him out.”
Melania Trump rebelled with ‘handsome military’ men on her arm, book claims
The first lady became “unleashed” after porn star Stormy Daniels alleged an affair with Donald Trump, according to Stephanie Grisham.
The former press secretary writes that Melania Trump found ways to exclude her husband from photos and tweets.
She also went out of her way to arrive at events with a handsome military aide hanging onto her arm, The New York Times reports.
She also didn’t believe her husband’s denials of the stormy affair.
“Oh, please, are you kidding me?” she says. “I don’t believe any of that,”
The first appendage was not shaped like a mushroom, the former president reportedly insisted from Air Force One
Donald Trump called from Air Force One to assure then press secretary Stephanie Grisham that his penis was, in fact, neither small nor bore a resemblance to a cartoon fungus.
“Uh, yes sir,” Grisham replied.
The claim that Trump’s appendage was shaped like Toadstool, the mushroom character from Mario Kart, was made by porn star Stormy Daniels in a 2018 memoir that alleged she had an affair with Trump in 2007.
“I lay there, annoyed that I was getting f*cked by a guy with Yeti pubes and a d**k like the mushroom character in Mario Kart,” she said.
“He knows he has an unusual penis,” Ms Daniels added. “It has a huge mushroom head. Like a toadstool.”
Catch up with the full saga.
Trump called press secretary from Air Force One to defend his penis, new book claims
The first appendage was not shaped like a mushroom, the former president reportedly insisted
Trump and Boris Johnson spent meeting chatting why rich people love sapce, former aide says
Paging Elon Musk. Paging Jeff Bezos. Your ears were burning in a meeting between Donald Trump and Boris Johnson.
The leaders of the United States and the United Kingdom are two of the most powerful people in the world (by aggregate). Despite the weight of that on the shoulders, the pair spent most of one of their meetings discussing, among other things why rich people loved space.
The claim was made in Stephani Grisham’s new book, I’ll Take Your Questions Now.
Nathan Place has the full report.
Trump and Johnson spent meeting chatting about gallbladders and space, ex-aide says
The US and UK leaders ‘spent much of a meeting discussing how gallbladders work, the many deadly creatures of Australia and why rich guys love space’, according to former Trump press secretary Stephanie Grisham
Read: Trump’s full statement in response to Grisham book
The former president responded to his former press secretary in two statements, one of his own and one from his current press secretary:
Donald J. Trump:
“Stephanie didn’t have what it takes and that was obvious from the beginning. She became very angry and bitter after her break up and as time went on she was seldom relied upon, or even thought about. She had big problems and we felt that she should work out those problems for herself. Now, like everyone else, she gets paid by a radical left-leaning publisher to say bad and untrue things. Too bad that sleaze bag publishers continue to report this very boring garbage. We and the MAGA movement are totally used to it. And someday in the not too distant future we will have our voice back and be treated fairly by the press.”
Press secretary Liz Harrington:
Trump braces for more as Omarosa NDA overturned
Anyone glued to Stephanie Grisham’s book revelations may have been confused why Donald Trump was lashing out against former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman.
An hour after calling his former press secretary “bitter and angry”, the former president released a statement on the former “Apprentice” contestant.
To wit:
“I gave Omarosa three attempts at The Apprentice and she failed. At her desperate request I gave her an attempt at the White House and she failed there too, people truly hated her. At least now I don’t have to let her fail anymore. "Nobody in her life has done more for Omarosa than a man named Donald Trump. Unfortunately, like certain others, she forgot all about that -- which is fine with me!"
Seems random, in isolation.
But on Monday the American Arbitration Association released its decision in a long-running arbitration battle between Trump and Manigault Newman for her own tell-all book, Unhinged.
They ruled that Trump’s nondisclosure agreement is unenforceable, according to Law & Crime.
That means she’s free to speak freely about what happened in the White House. And her lawyer, John M Phillips, hinted that is exactly what could come next.
"People who signed these NDAs should sleep better and speak more freely," he told Law & Crime.
‘That the f*** are you doing’: Trump asked Melania after infamous ‘I don’t care’ jacket, aide claims
Melania didn’t care, but Donald Trump certainly did.
Stephanie Grisham says the first lady was summoned to the West Wing after she wore a jacket emblazoned with the words “I really don’t care, do you?” during a trip to a migrant housing facility in McAllen, Texas.
“He yelled and asked “what the [expletive]” they thought they were doing,” writes The Washington Post, which obtained an advance copy of the book.
Read the full yarn:
Melania aide claims Trump exploded after first lady wore infamous I don’t care jacket
President reportedly summoned his wife to Oval Office, berated her
Putin had ‘attractive’ translator at meeting to distract Trump, book claims
While Donald Trump acted tough for the cameras, Vladimir Putin reportedly let the ladies of the Kremlin do the distracting.
In her new book, Stephanie Grisham says the Russian president used an attractive translator in an attempt to “throw Trump off”.
“As the meeting began, Fiona Hill leaned over and asked me if I had noticed Putin’s translator, who was a very attractive brunette woman with long hair, a pretty face, and a wonderful figure,” Grisham wrote.
“She proceeded to tell me that she suspected the woman had been selected by Putin specifically to distract our president.”
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