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There have plenty of appalling relevations in recent books about Donald Trump's presidency.In The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, we learned about this exchange between Trump and Gen.
John Kelly, who was White House chief of staff for a time:“You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?” Trump said to Kelly.“Which generals?” Kelly asked.“The German generals in World War II,” Trump responded.“You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly said.“No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him,” came Trump’s bizarre response.From I'll Take Your Questions Now byStephanie Grisham, who was Trump's press secretary, we learned that Trump cut his own hair with scissors that were big enough to “cut a ribbon at an opening of one of his properties.”In The Room Where it Happened, former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton writes that when Trump was speaking with British Prime Minister Theresa May about Russia, he asked, "'Oh, are you a nuclear power?' Which I knew was not intended as a joke."Then in Breaking History by Trump son-in-law and former Senior Advisor Jared Kushner, there is this quote: “Jared’s a genius.
People complain about nepotism — I’m the one who got the steal here.”Last year, it was estimated that there have been over 1,200 English-language books written about Donald Trump’s presidency.