Donald Trump refused to go under anesthesia when he had a colonoscopy because he did not want to hand power over to Mike Pence, according to Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham’s new book.
Grisham claims that the president did not want anyone to know about the medical procedure, which she does not specifically name, because he did not want to be “the butt of a joke” for late-night comedians.
Grisham writes in her new book I’ll Take Your Questions Now, that Trump underwent a “very common procedure” for which a “patient is sometimes put under”.
She adds that it was the same procedure that George W Bush had during his time in the White House when temporarily signed over power to vice president Dick Cheney as he underwent a