The ebook paints an image of a president who more and more settled into life inside the chief residence, claiming he custom-made his residing quarters and saved longtime aide Walt Nauta shut with on a regular basis private gadgets.
“Trump had each consolation shut at hand,” the authors wrote, alleging Nauta routinely carried “make-up, hairspray, Tic Tacs” and even scissors so Trump may trim hair that was “getting too lengthy within the again.”
Haberman and Swan additionally declare that Trump’s sleep schedule turned more and more erratic.
“He had by no means been an enormous sleeper, however now it appeared to his employees that he was sleeping even much less, retaining stranger hours than he had in his first time period,” they wrote.
The authors added: “However sometimes, aides could not attain him in the course of the hours between eight and ten, which they quickly got here to understand meant he had stayed up all evening, on the telephone or watching tv or each, solely to lastly catch some sleep round 4 or 5 within the morning.”
In keeping with the ebook, “One late morning, when nobody had heard from the President, and employees had been unable to succeed in him, an aide checked on the President solely to seek out that he was nonetheless asleep within the residence.”
Responding to the ebook’s allegations, White Home spokesperson Davis Ingle defended the president, telling the outlet: “President Trump’s sharpness, unmatched power, and historic accessibility stand in stark distinction to what we noticed over the past administration when Democrats and the legacy media deliberately coated up Joe Biden’s critical psychological and bodily decline from the American folks.”
He added, “President Trump is the sharpest and most accessible President in American historical past who’s working nonstop to resolve issues and ship on his guarantees.”