US President Donald Trump and former chief strategist Steve Bannon used to be so close they’d have dinner nearly every evening, an explosive new book about Trump’s first year in office reveals. If the two former friends weren’t dining at 6:30 pm, Trump would retire to the residence, where he allegedly ate cheeseburgers from bed, sometimes watching three television screens while ranting about the media in phone calls to friends.
Author Michael Wolff claims that Trump added a lock to his bedroom door in the early days of the administration to the chagrin of Secret Service and screamed at housekeeping staff who tidied up after him. ‘If my shirt is on the floor, it’s because I want it on the floor,’ Trump allegedly said. Wolff writes in ‘Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House’ that Trump told staff not to touch anything – especially not his toothbrush – as he’s notoriously afraid of being poisoned.
He would even strip his own bed and let housekeeping know when he wanted his sheets washed, Wolff says in a set of unsourced claims. The book also revealed that President Trump’s taste for McDonald’s goes deeper than a liking for cheap meat, he prefers it because he fears being poisoned.Michael Wolff writes one of the reasons the president prefers fast food is that no one knows he is coming to the establishment, and the food is, presumably, safely premade. In his first days at the White House, a paranoid president gave a very specific order that the housekeeping staff touch nothing in his room, ‘especially not his toothbrush.’
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