A former aide to Trump has written a tell-all book about his time in the White House, and the revelations from the book are said to have made Trump hopping mad.
We’ve already written about one of his claims, which was ridiculous. He had said Trump had an enemies list, but it was really a list of potential leakers in the White House.
Here’s the report:
POLITICO – President Donald Trump is “very pissed off” and “really hopping mad” at former aide Cliff Sims’ new book that reveals firsthand the chaos and infighting that is ever present in his White House, according to several current and former White House officials.
Trump is asking aides: “Who is this guy? Why is he writing this book? He wasn’t even in meetings,” the sources said. He also dismissively refers to Sims — who served until last May as director of White House message strategy and a special assistant to the president —as “the videographer” because he also helped Trump with the weekly video and radio addresses, according to three current and former White House officials.
Sims’ tell-all book, “Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House,” will be published Tuesday. Advance excerpts and leaks have revealed embarrassing anecdotes about Trump and damning portraits of several top White House aides.
But Trump isn’t the only one angry over this book:
One former senior White House official said Sims has managed to do the impossible: unite an infamously fractious world of Trump advisers and associates.
“Basically every warring faction has come together,” to push back against Sims, said a former senior White House official. “You wouldn’t believe the text chains. The best part is the president is sort of chomping at the bit to tap this guy and tweet something to the effect of, ‘I didn’t know who this guy was. He taped videos.’”
The former official said that Sims often attended White House meetings uninvited, and that his former colleagues now believe he was in effect covertly reporting on them for a future book.
The White House is trying to keep Trump from tweeting about Sims…
Some Trump advisers have urged him not to lash out at Sims that way. Their message to Trump, said a White House official, is: “‘It’s beneath you. You barely remember him. Go run the world.’”
But it is unclear how the impulsive Trump might react after the kickoff of Sims’ official media tour, which began early Monday with an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and “The View.” Sims is also slated to appear on CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” tonight.
Although Trump insists Sims — an Alabama native who previously worked on the Trump 2016 campaign – was never in his inner circle, he “feels duped by a guy who he trusted,” said a person close to the White House.
This guy Sims sounds a lot like Omarosa, who also stabbed Trump in the back after she left the White House.
Trump has certainly made mistakes in bringing certain people into the White House. The article notes that he was warned about some of them, which he brought on anyway. It doesn’t say whether he was warned about Sims. But clearly that guy was really just there to write a book and make millions telling embarrassing secrets.