First Lady Melania Trump openly wept on the night her husband won the election - and the tears 'were not of joy.'
The whole campaign from the top down thought Trump would lose and everyone had planned for defeat, with Trump himself planning a TV network because he would be 'the most famous man in the world.'


There was, in the space of little more than an hour, in Steve Bannon’s not unamused observation, a befuddled Trump morphing into a disbelieving Trump and then into a horrified Trump. But still to come was the final transformation: Suddenly, Donald Trump became a man who believed that he deserved to be, and was wholly capable of being, the president of the United States.
Illustration: Jeffrey Smith

Trump Didn’t Want to Be President

One year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration’s shocked first days.

Election Night: It “looked as if he had seen a ghost.”

By MICHAEL WOLFF  NEW YORK

The White House said Thursday that Donald Trump doesn't believe an explosive book leveling sensational claims about his time as president should go on sale January 9 as scheduled. The publisher responded hours later by saying it agreed – and bumped up the release by four days, to January 5. One of Trump's personal lawyers demanded on Thursday morning 'Fire and Fury,' by columnist Michael Wolff, be shelved because of what he said were maliciously false claims made in the book against the president. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters on Thursday afternoon that the book is 'full of false and fake information' and that Trump 'clearly believes that it shouldn't be' published. 'It's completely tabloid gossip, full of false and fraudulent claims,' she said.

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President Donald Trump doesn't think much of the intellectual abilities of his two sons Eric and Don Jr., Their father took some regular pleasure in pointing out that they were in the back of the room when God handed out brains,' author Michael Wolff writes.The book goes on to say that the brothers eventually grew into 'reasonably competent' executives within their father's company because Trump had no patience to run it, according to Wolff.  

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• Steve Bannon described Don Jr's Trump Tower meeting with Russians as 'treasonous and unpatriotic' and thinks he will 'crack like an egg' under the pressure of the Russia investigation 'Wolff claims Don Jr., Jared and Paul Manafort's infamous meeting at Trump Tower for dirt on Hillary Clinton was Don's way of trying to impress his father. Bannon said there's 'zero' chance Donald Trump didn't know about the meeting and said Don Jr likely 'walked them to his father's office.  Wolff writes 'It was a case, or the lack of one, not of masterminds and subterfuge, but of senseless and benighted people so guileless and unconcerned that they enthusiastically colluded in plain sight.' 

'You realize where this is going,'[Bannon] said. 'This is all about money laundering. Mueller chose [senior prosecutor Andrew] Wessman first and he is a money-laundering guy. Their path to f***ing Trump goes right through Paul Manafort, Don Jr. and Jared Kushner … It's as plain as a hair on your face,' he said.

Excerpts from the new book 'Fire and Fury' claim that Donald and Melania could go days without seeing each other, even at their New York home at Trump Tower. They are pictured here in 2010. Trump and his wife spent very little time together and that she often didn't know where he was prior to him becoming President. The book also insinuates that the President and First Lady have separate bedrooms, being the first, first couple to do so since John and Jackie Kennedy. Trump, Wolff said, wanted a lock for his room, much to the chagrin of the Secret Service. 

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Roger Ailes, a veteran of the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 41 administrations, tried to impress on Trump the need to create a White House structure that could serve and protect him. “You need a son of a bitch as your chief of staff,” he told Trump. “And you need a son of a bitch who knows Washington. You’ll want to be your own son of a bitch, but you don’t know Washington.” Ailes had a suggestion: John Boehner, who had stepped down as Speaker of the House only a year earlier.

• “Who’s that?” asked Trump.
  As much as the president himself, the chief of staff determines how the Executive branch — which employs 4 million people — will run. The job has been construed as deputy president, or even prime minister. But Trump had no interest in appointing a strong chief of staff with a deep knowledge of Washington. Among his early choices for the job was Kushner — a man with no political experience beyond his role as a calm and flattering body man to Trump during the campaign.
  It was Ann Coulter who finally took the president-elect aside. “Nobody is apparently telling you this,” she told him. “But you can’t. You just can’t hire your children.”
• The 76-year-old Ailes, who was as dumbfounded by his old friend Donald Trump’s victory as everyone else, understood that he was passing the right-wing torch to Bannon. Ailes’s Fox News, with its $1.5 billion in annual profits, had dominated Republican politics for two decades. Now Bannon’s Breit­bart News, with its mere $1.5 million in annual profits, was claiming that role. For 30 years, Ailes — until recently the single most powerful person in conservative ­politics — had humored and tolerated Trump, but in the end, the unshaven, overweight 63-year-old Bannon, typically wearing a disheveled blazer, his signature pairing of two shirts, and military fatigues, and Breitbart had elected him.

• Ivanka Trump maintained a relationship with her father that was in no way conventional. She was a helper not just in his business dealings, but in his marital realignments. If it wasn’t pure opportunism, it was certainly transactional. For Ivanka, it was all business — building the Trump brand, the presidential campaign, and now the White House. She treated her father with a degree of detachment, even irony, going so far as to make fun of his comb-over to others. She often described the mechanics behind it to friends: an absolutely clean pate — a contained island after scalp-reduction ­surgery — surrounded by a furry circle of hair around the sides and front, from which all ends are drawn up to meet in the center and then swept back and secured by a stiffening spray. The color, she would point out to comical effect, was from a product called Just for Men — the longer it was left on, the darker it got. Impatience resulted in Trump’s orange-blond hair color.
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• Trump orders McDonald's so he's not poisoned. He told staff not to touch his toothbrush.  Trump regularly sits in bed eating a cheeseburger at 6.30 pm while calling his friends and watching three TVs.He had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald’s — nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely premade  Illustration: Jeffrey Smith 

• When he got on the phone, he’d often speculate on the flaws and weaknesses of each member of his staff. Bannon was disloyal (not to mention he always looks like shit). Priebus was weak (not to mention he was short — a midget). Kushner was a suck-up. Sean Spicer was stupid (and looks terrible too). Conway was a crybaby. Jared and Ivanka should never have come to Washington.

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• Rupert Murdoch called Trump a 'f***ing idiot' after a phone call and billionaire backer Tom Barrack said 'he's not only crazy, he's stupid' Trump's aides say he doesn't read and 'for all practical purposes is no more than semi-literate' Trump reportedly tells the same stories three times in ten minutes.

Mark Reeves

Katie Walsh was made the deputy chief of staff. She came to the White House from the RNC. She represented a certain Republican ideal: clean, brisk, orderly, efficient.According to Ms. Walsh, the central issue of the Trump presidency, informing every aspect of Trumpian policy and leadership was clear: He didn’t process information in any conventional sense. He didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-­literate. He trusted his own expertise ­— no matter how paltry or irrelevant — more than anyone else’s. He was often confident, but he was just as often paralyzed, less a savant than a figure of sputtering and dangerous insecurities, whose instinctive response was to lash out and behave as if his gut, however confused, was in fact in some clear and forceful way telling him what to do. It was, said Walsh, “like trying to figure out what a child wants.”

I've got DOZENS of tapes of hours of interviews Michael Wolff tells friends as he says White House sources simply walked over to his hotel to spill. Wolf reportedly taped conversations with Bannon and other aides.He reported from a West Wing couch and did work from the chief of staff's office. A New York magazine excerpt describes him as taking up 'something like a semi-permanent seat on a couch in the West Wing.' The excerpt claims he conducted more than 200 interviews. 

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