Trumps campaign: Big Macs, screaming fits and constant rivalries

[underpants]

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.

“Did you say I shouldn’t be on TV on Sunday? I’ll go on TV anytime I g--dam f---ing want and you won’t say another f---ing word about me!” Trump yelled at Manafort, according to Lewandowski. “Tone it down? I wanna turn it up! .?.?. You’re a political pro? Let me tell you something. I’m a pro at life. I’ve been around a time or two. I know guys like you, with your hair and skin .?.?.”

In another episode, Lewandowski describes how staffer Sam Nunberg was purposely left behind at a McDonald’s because Nunberg’s special-order burger was taking too long. “Leave him,” Trump said. “Let’s go.” And they did.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-campaign-big-macs-screaming-fits-and-constant-rivalries/2017/12/02/18bcfa30-d6bd-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html?utm_term=.80772e2a2609

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. The tell-all books are going to be terrifying

And numerous. It's not like anybody is going to find working in this Whitehouse a big resume plus.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. The previous books about Trump reported his temper issues

in a general way.
these specific details will help more people to "hear" what it was like.

and raises the question....why were his enablers so willing to put up with that shit?

I don't get the money/power driver in people.

[teach1st]

2. He learned from the best (worst)

Poynter Institute, James Warren, 8/1/2017
https://www.poynter.org/news/president-trump-starting-conquer-sports-news-too

"Trump and Steinbrenner were very close friends, and Trump, one can argue, watched Steinbrenner treat his employees terribly, making alcoholics out of many of them. Trump so enjoyed watching the horrible treatment of Steinbrenner's employees that surely he adopted the same behavior himself."

"Surely two of the most vile individuals ever to become public figures. And what was so interesting, Steinbrenner, like Trump, was terrible at his job. In thirty years Steinbrenner only won after twice he was suspended" by the baseball commissioner for clearly unethical behavior.

"Two losers who had and have very high opinions of themselves. Two narcissists who cared most of all about seeing their names in headlines in the newspapers. They could have been twins."

[underpants]

3. Steinbrenner was a convicted felon (pardoned by Reagan)

Trump may well soon be likewise convicted

[teach1st]

4. Twins! :)

[Solly Mack]

6. May high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and excess weight carried at the waist

be the trifecta of world wide celebrations.

[Frustratedlady]

7. That comment about hair and skin is telling. eom