Trump's campaign: Big Macs, screaming fits and constant rivalries

[DonViejo]

By Michael Kranish December 2 at 4:00 PM

Elton John blares so loudly on Donald Trump’s campaign plane that staffers can’t hear themselves think. Press secretary Hope Hicks uses a steamer to press Trump’s pants — while he is still wearing them. Trump screams at his top aides, who are subjected to expletive-filled tirades in which they get their “face ripped off.” And Trump’s appetite seems to know no bounds when it comes to McDonald’s, with a dinner order consisting of “two Big Macs, two Fillet-O-Fish, and a chocolate malted.”

The scenes are among the most surreal passages in a forthcoming book chronicling Trump’s path to the presidency co-written by Corey Lewandowski, who was fired as Trump’s campaign manager, and David Bossie, another top aide. The book, “Let Trump Be Trump,” paints a portrait of a campaign with an untested candidate and staff rocketing from crisis to crisis, in which Lewandowski and a cast of mostly neophyte political aides learn on the fly and ultimately accept Trump’s propensity to go angrily off message.

“Sooner or later, everybody who works for Donald Trump will see a side of him that makes you wonder why you took a job with him in the first place,” the authors wrote. “His wrath is never intended as any personal offense, but sometimes it can be hard not to take it that way. The mode that he switches into when things aren’t going his way can feel like an all-out assault; it’d break most hardened men and women into little pieces.” The authors “both had moments where they wanted to parachute off Trump Force One,” but they said they got used to it.

Lewandowski provides a largely admiring portrait of his former boss, saving the skewer for score-settling anecdotes about Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman and rival whom Lewandowski blames for his ouster. The Post obtained an advance copy of the book, which is scheduled for release on Tuesday.

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. What a horror show...

[nuxvomica]

2. Where does McDonald's serve chocolate malteds?

I have never seen it on the menu.

[Brother Buzz]

5. You'd have to set the WayBack Machine for 1955

Note: Today, the menu lists shakes, not milkshakes, let alone malt shakes.

[Tipperary]

7. That puzzled me too. Actually it makes me doubt the whole story because it is so out there.

I believe the stuff about him being off the chain with his temper but the rest, who knows? Chocolate malteds??

[madaboutharry]

3. 2 Big Macs, 2 Fillet O Fish, and a chocolate shake

is over 3,000 calories.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Good. Feed it to him six times a day.

Then hope for the inevitable.

[tanyev]

6. Jeez. I wonder what percentage of people who continue to work for him

grew up in some kind of abusive environment? Any employer screams at me, I am out the door.

[Ms. Toad]

8. Thank God for small favors . . .

Press secretary Hope Hicks uses a steamer to press Trump’s pants — while he is still wearing them.

Otherwise I'd need eye bleach.