Donald Trump brazenly mocked his son-in-law and White Home adviser Jared Kushner in entrance of aides throughout a 2020 election marketing campaign technique assembly, The New York Occasions’ Maggie Haberman experiences in her upcoming ebook.
It was one in every of a collection of belittling feedback the then-president made about Kushner, who’s married to his daughter Ivanka Trump, in accordance with an excerpt from “Confidence Man” that The Guardian revealed on Thursday.
Trump, per Haberman, was speaking a couple of tenting journey his daughter hoped to soak up an RV when he stated of Kushner, who was within the room: “This skinny man desires to do it. Are you able to think about Jared and his skinny ass tenting? It’d be like one thing out of ‘Deliverance.’”
Trump then mimicked “the banjo theme music from the 1972 film about 4 males vacationing in rural Georgia who’re attacked, pursued and in a single case brutally raped by a neighborhood resident,” Haberman wrote.
On one other event, Trump claimed Kushner “feels like a baby.”
He additionally questioned whether or not Kushner, who’s Jewish, was “simply avoiding work” by observing Shabbat.
In beforehand reported excerpts from the ebook, Haberman stated Trump got here near saying the firing of Kushner and Ivanka Trump over Twitter — however was talked down by then-White Home chief of workers John Kelly, who urged he ought to discuss to the couple first.