Trump told Stephanie Grisham to to evict press from White House
Trump told Stephanie Grisham to find out ways to evict the PRESS from the White House and wanted her to ‘re-enact’ his ‘perfect’ phone call with Ukraine president to the media
- Donald Trump wanted his press secretary Stephanie Grisham to evict the press corps from the White House, she reveals in her new book
- He also wanted her to re-enact his ‘perfect’ phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for the White House press corps
- Excerpts from Grisham’s forthcoming book ‘I’ll Take Your Questions Now’
- Her memoir is out October 5
Former President Donald Trump wanted his press secretary Stephanie Grisham to evict the press corps from the White House, she reveals in her new book.
He also wanted her to re-enact his ‘perfect’ phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for them.
Excerpts from Grisham’s forthcoming book ‘I’ll Take Your Questions Now’ appeared in The New York Times and Washington Post ahead of its Oct. 5 publication date.
In her book, Grisham reveals behind-the-scenes details of working in the White House, including Trump’s temper, how Melania Trump distanced herself from her husband after the Stormy Daniels affair was revealed, and how Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump became a powerful duo on the West Wing.
Grisham kept the fact she was writing a memoir on the downlow and her book is expected to be highly critical of the former first family. Early excerpts have proven that out.
She reveals that a trip to North Korea inspired Trump to ask her to find ways he could evict the White House press corps from the James Brady briefing room – a place he frequently held news conferences and bantered with reporters.
‘I researched different places we could put them other than the press briefing room. Each time the president asked me about my progress on the matter, I let him know I was still working on options,’ Grisham writes.
Donald Trump wanted his press secretary Stephanie Grisham to evict the press corps from the White House, she reveals in her new book
Donald Trump asked Stephanie Grisham to re-enact his ‘perfect’ phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for the White House press corps
Grisham, who was notable for never holding a press briefing as White House press secretary, explains she didn’t do so out of fears of what Trump would ask her to say at the podium. Trump’s first press secretary, Sean Spicer, famously argued Trump’s inauguration crowd was ‘the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration’ – claim that did not match side-by-side photos of Trump’s inauguration with Barack Obama’s and destroyed his credibility.
‘I knew that sooner or later the president would want me to tell the public something that was not true or that would make me sound like a lunatic,’ she notes.
She also details one of Trump’s more outlandish requests – that she appear before the press corps and re-enact his phone call with Zelensky, which led to his first impeachment. She managed to avoid doing it.
Trump, himself, famously like to re-enact the call by reliving what he and Zelensky said, using different tones of voices to make his point.
The former president slammed Grisham in a statement to the Times.
‘Stephanie didn’t have what it takes and that was obvious from the beginning,’ Trump said. He said she had become ‘very angry and bitter’ after a breakup. ‘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.’
I’ll Take Your Questions Now: What I saw at the Trump White House by Stephanie Grisham comes out on October 5
Her 352-page book also includes bizarre details about Trump’s behavior.
For instance, she claims he cuts his hair with a ‘huge pair of scissors that could probably cut a ribbon at an opening of one of his properties.’
She also writes that one of Trump’s aides – later revealed to be Grisham’s ex-boyfriend Max Miler, who is running for an Ohio Congressional seat and has been endorsed by Trump – would play him his favorite show tunes, including ‘Memory’ from Cats, to calm him down during tantrums.
Trump staff nicknamed Miller the ‘Music Man.’
Grisham described Trump’s temper as ‘terrifying.
But she also filled in some blanks about some of the most memorable moments of Trump’s one term: that Russian President Vladimir Putin brought an ‘attractive’ translator with him to distract Trump at their 2019 meeting – and Trump told Putin he would act tough in front of the cameras and then play nice privately, former White House official Stephanie Grisham reveals in her forthcoming tell-all.
‘OK, I’m going to act a little tougher with you for a few minutes. But it’s for the cameras, and after they leave, we’ll talk. You understand,’ Trump had told Putin when they met in June 2019 in Japan at the G20, Grisham recounted.
The meeting came 11 months after the infamous Helsinki summit where Trump seemed to side with the Russian president over American intelligence agencies on whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
At the July 2018 meeting, Trump said Putin offered an ‘extremely strong and powerful’ denial.
At their 2019 meeting in Japan, Trump playfully scolded and wagged a finger at Putin in front of the cameras telling the Russian leader, ‘don’t meddle in the election,’ before they met behind closed doors for 90 minutes without journalists present.
Grisham conversed with Fiona Hill – the administration’s Russia expert turned impeachment 1.0 witness – who explained what Putin was doing 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.’
A brunette woman with a blue dress can be seen following Putin into the room as the Russian leader greets the American delegation in Osaka.
President Donald Trump (right) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan in June 2019. Stephanie Grisham’s forthcoming book sheds more light on this meeting
Trump continued the womanizing behavior he was known for as a brash Manhattan real estate tycoon at the White House, Grisham revealed, writing that he repeatedly invited a young press aide to his Air Force One cabin – one time to look at her behind.
Trump instructed Grisham to ‘keep her happy.’
Grisham tried to keep the staffer away from the president, she wrote.
The ex-press secretary, who went on to become Melania Trump’s chief of staff before quitting in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection also recalled how Trump insisted his penis was not shaped like a toadstool – responding to comments made by porn star Stormy Daniels.
Daniels wrote in a 2018 book on her affair with the former president: ‘I lay there, annoyed that I was getting f***ed by a guy with Yeti pubes and a d*** like the mushroom character in Mario Kart.’
Trump, upon hearing the allegation, called his press secretary from Air Force one to assure her his penis was neither small nor shaped like a toadstool.
Trump, upon hearing the Stormy Daniels description of his penis, called his press secretary from Air Force one to assure her his penis was neither small nor shaped like a toadstool, Grisham wrote in her new salacious tell-all ‘I’ll Take Your Questions Now’
Grisham also wrote that the former president once asked her former boyfriend, Miller, if she was good in bed.
The Daniels affair, Grisham wrote, ‘unleashed’ Melania’s vengeance as she began trying to contradict her husband in public.
When Grisham drafted a tweet requesting privacy at the time of the affair, saying that Melania would focus on being on her roles as first lady, wife and mother, Melania had her scrub the tweet of the word ‘wife.’
And during the State of the Union address, she walked in arm-in-arm with a handsome military aide hand-selected by Grisham because the floors of the Capitol were ‘slippery.’
‘I laughed to myself because I’d seen the woman navigate dirt roads in her heels,’ Grisham writes.
Grisham, 45, served as press secretary to Trump from July 2019 to April 2020. She then returned to her previous role as press secretary to First Lady Melania from April 2020 until January 2021.
‘This book is another pitiful attempt to cash in on the President’s strength and sell lies about the Trump family, said Trump spokeswoman Liz Harrington.
Harrington termed Grisham a ‘a disgruntled former employee’ – a term has applied in the past to aides who have written tell-alls. She said the book’s publishers ‘should be ashamed of themselves for preying on desperate people who see the short term gain in writing a book full of falsehoods.’
Publisher Harper Collins calls the book ‘The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet.’
Grisham resigned from her post on Jan. 6th, the day of the Capitol riot.
White House staff called Ivanka ‘the princess’ and claim she and Jared tried to push their way into meeting the Queen, Stephanie Grisham claims in new book
Aides to former President Donald Trump referred to his daughter Ivanka as ‘the princess,’ according to a new tell-all book – which describes Ivanka Trump’s efforts to insinuate herself into a meeting with the Queen in 2019.
Former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham includes the detail in her new book, I’ll Take Your Questions Now – a title that references her failure to hold a press briefing during her tenure.
Grisham, who went on to serve as first lady Melania Trump’s top aide, writes that Melania also referred to Ivanka by the name.
Ivanka, who served as an unpaid senior advisor to the president, regularly referred to him as ‘my father’ in meetings, she writes. Ivanka sometimes used the term in public.
Ivanka Trump (second right) and Jared Kushner (R) looks out of the window at Buckingham Palace during the visit of US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump on June 03, 2019 in London, England
White House aides called Ivanka Trump ‘the princess,’ writes former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham in her new book. She terms Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner (c) the ‘Slim Reaper’
Grisham terms her husband, former White House aide Jared Kushner, ‘the Slim Reaper’ for getting involved in projects designated for others, she writes, according to a copy of the book obtained by the Washington Post.
Grisham also writes that the power couple tried to get themselves into a meeting with Queen Elizabeth II during Trump’s visit to the UK in 2019.
Only Trump and the first lady attended. It would have been a ‘wild breach of protocol,’ according to the post. Jared and Ivanka did attend a state dinner.
Grisham writes that the situation was resolved when they couldn’t fit into a presidential helicopter.
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