Former White House spokeswoman during Trump presidency describes
ex-president's
'
terrifying
'
outbursts in book
, which only calmed down by playing her favorite music, according to excerpts published Tuesday, September 28 by the American press.
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In a book entitled "
I'll Take Your Questions Now
" ( "
I will now take your questions
," in French), Stephanie Grisham - who never bent to the daily exercise of press conference with journalists covering the White House - describes a temperamental, liar, cover-up and sexist Donald Trump.
A spokesperson for the White House between July 2019 and April 2020, she was then chief of staff to former first lady Melania Trump.
Stephanie Grisham says that to calm the “
terrifying
”
anger
of the billionaire, who still has massive support within the Republican electorate, a person had been appointed to the White House to play his favorite songs, including “
Memory
"From the musical"
Cats
", reports the
New York Times
.
This man was nicknamed "
Music Man
".
"
I'll play tough with you
"
The former spokesperson also reports that the former president brought an employee into his Air Force One cabin to look at his buttocks, the
Washington Post
read
. The daily reports another passage, on a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit, two years ago. According to Stephanie Grisham, the former US president told his Russian counterpart, in the absence of reporters: “
Ok, I'll play tough with you for a few minutes. But that's for the cameras, and once they're gone, we'll talk.
"
The former spokesperson, who resigned from her post with Melania Trump after the assault on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, also said that the former president concealed from the public that he had undergone a colonoscopy in 2019. Stephanie Grisham also describes, still according to extracts published by the
Washington Post
and the
New York Times
, a Melania Trump increasingly hostile to her husband after revelations about her affair with a porn actress.
According to her former chief of staff, the former first lady asked after this scandal to be accompanied during her public appearances by an attractive soldier, to enrage her husband.
Regarding her own role in a White House in which "
dishonesty circulated as if it was being diffused through the air conditioning system
," Stephanie Grisham writes, according to the
New York Times
: "
I should have done more hear.
"
