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Trump hits out at ex-aide as bombshell book claims obsession with penis shape and that he eases rage listening to show tunes

One-term president claims Stephanie Grisham is ‘very angry and bitter’ after break up

Graeme Massie
Los Angeles
Tuesday 28 September 2021 14:19 EDT
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Donald Trump has hit out at a former White House aide as her bombshell new book claims he was fixated with the shape of his penis and eased his rage by listening to show tunes.

The one-term president attacked Stephanie Grisham, his former White House press secretary and chief of staff to Melania Trump, who has made the stunning revelations in her tell-all book.

“Stephanie didn’t have what it takes and that was obvious from the beginning,” Mr Trump said through spokesperson Liz Harrington, who unlike the former president has not been banned from Twitter.

“She became very angry and bitter after her break up and as time went on she was seldom relied upon, or even thought about.”

Mr Trump, who was impeached a record two times, added: “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.”

He also attacked “sleaze bag publishers” who “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,” he finished.

In the book, entitled I’ll Take Your Questions Now, Ms Grisham, who used to date Trump aide Max Miller, makes a string of claims against Mr Trump, according to a manuscript obtained by The New York Times.

In it she claims that at the 2019 G20 summit in Osaka, Mr Trump told Vladimir Putin that he was “going to act a little tougher with you for a few minutes” for the TV cameras.

Ms Grisham also writes in the book that Mr Putin selected beautiful women as his translators to “distract” the president.

The book also claims that following the Stormy Daniels alleged affair story, Melania Trump refused to include her husband in any photos or tweets, and would always show up at events on the arm of a handsome military aide.

She also claims that Ms Trump became so disengaged with her husband’s presidency that she slept through election night in November 2020, and during the 6 January Capitol riot was conducting a photoshoot of a rug.

Following his trip to North Korea, Ms Grisham claims that Mr Trump asked her to research ways that the press corp could be permanently banned from the White House briefing room.

She also says that one White House official, identified as Mr Max, became known as the “Music Man” as he was tasked with playing the president’s favourite Broadway tunes, including “Memory” from Cats to tame his rages.

Ms Grisham also claims that Mr Tump once called her from Air Force One and asked her to confirm that his penis was neither small nor shaped like a toadstool, as had been claimed by Stormy Daniels in her own tell-all book.

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