Donald Trump never wanted to win the election, reveals upcoming book

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Donald Trump never wanted to win the election, reveals upcoming book

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(Web Desk) – American author Michael Wolf’s books ‘Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House’ is due to be published on Tuesday. However, after New York magazine on Wednesday printed some of the excerpts from the book, the book went up to top position in Amazon list and created frenzy on social and electronic media, as it encapsulates shocking claims about President Donald J. Trump’s modus vivendi, reported CNBC.

Michael Wolf has consulted over 200 persons, including Trump’s current and former aides, campaign staffers and White House crew, to compile his book.

The most notable contribution has come from former White House chief strategist, Steve Bannon. Bannon’s comments on Trump Jr.’s meeting with Russian delegate in Trump Towers has elicited a furious reply from Trump himself, who recently remarked on twitter that Bannon also lost his mind with his job.

Here are some of the outrageous claims contained in Fire and Fury:

Trump wanted fame, not presidency

Wolf reports that neither Donald Trump nor his family ever expected to win the presidential election. All Trump wanted was fame. “I can be the most famous man in the world,” he had told his aide Sam Nunberg at the outset of the presidential race.

Had Trump lost, he would have been described as a hero who grappled with the ‘crooked’ Hillary, his business would have witnessed unprecedented growth, Ivanka would have become a national celebrity, and Melania would have been free to go out lunching in the New York streets. In a nutshell, losing would have been akin to winning. Everything, thus, was kicked in the shins when Trump secured an impossible, improbable victory.

In the words of Don Jr., Trump “looked like he’d seen a ghost” when he won; and Melania cried, she was in tears – and not of joy, writes Wolf.

The President found the White House to be vexing, even scary

The forthcoming book also reveals how Trump abhorred his new house in the early days of presidency. The nascent president made unprecedented changes in the US’s most prestigious building. He ordered two extra television sets in his bedroom. Altercation with the Secret Service over access to private rooms became a norm.

Trump and Melania became first presidential couple after Kennedys to order separate rooms. The billionaire president’s obsession with being poisoned continued after shifting to White House. He’d never allow room service to clean the room and especially touch his toothbrush.

 If my shirt is on the floor, it s because I want it on the floor , Trump would yell on the staff.

Trump loves McDonald’s

Michael Wolf’s sources also told him that the president would go to bed at 6:30 PM and order cheese burgers in case Steve Bennon was not available at the dinner. His famous campaign photograph showing him sitting on his plane with McDonald’s meal is a case in point.

Along with eating burgers, he’d watch three televisions while constantly telephoning his close friends to lash out on ‘biased and fake’ media. The phone was his true contact point with the world, claims the book.

Steve Bannon termed Trump Jr.’s rendezvous with Russians ‘treasonous’

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon described a meeting with a group of Russians attended by Donald Trump Jr. and his father s top campaign officials as "treasonous" and "unpatriotic."

Bannon expressed derision and astonishment over the meeting in Trump Tower in New York in which a Russian lawyer was said to be offering damaging information about Hillary Clinton.

The meeting arranged by Trump s son also included Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and the then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

Bannon told Wolff: "The three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the 25th floor - with no lawyers. They didn t have any lawyers.
"Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, I happen to think it s all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately."

Deal between Ivanka and Kushner

In his book, Wolf also sheds light on a purported deal struck between Trump’s ambitious daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner. Once the family came to grips with the fact that Trump had rally won the election, Ivanka and Kushner decided to play a role in country’s politics.

They accepted the roles in the White House’s West Wing and made an earnest deal that if in future an opportunity arose, it would be Ivanka who’d run for the presidency so as to pull off what Hillary Clinton couldn’t: become first woman president in American history.

Melania and Trump remained disgruntled during Inauguration Day

What seemed rumours once, the uncomfortable conduct of the presidential couple during Trump’s inauguration day has been confirmed by the book. Throughout the big day, Wolf reports, Trump continued to fight with his wife and was annoyed that notable celebrities did not want to attend the ceremony.

“Throughout the day, he wore what some around him had taken to calling his golf face: angry and pissed off, shoulders hunched, arms swinging, brow furled, lips pursed", reads an excerpt from the book.