Donald Trump’s former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham apparently has a few hundred axes to grind.
The Washington Post reports that Grisham writes in her new book that Trump “once call[ed] her from Air Force One to assure her that his penis was not small or toadstool-shaped.”
Adult film star Stormy Daniels wrote in her 2018 memoir that Trump’s penis was like “a toadstool.”
The story is just one in Grisham’s upcoming book, “I’ll Take Your Questions Now.” In another, the Post reports, Grisham says Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin that he was going to put on a tough-guy act for the cameras.
In a meeting between Trump and Putin in Japan in 2019, Grisham claims Trump told Putin that he was going to “act a little tougher” with him in front of the cameras. Grisham claims she heard Trump tell Putin: “Okay, I’m going to act a little tougher with you for a few minutes. But it’s for the cameras, and after they leave, we’ll talk. You understand.”
A spokeswoman for Trump has called the book “another pitiful attempt to cash in on the president’s strength and sell lies about the Trump family,” The Guardian reports.
In another story, Grisham writes that Trump did not disclose a colonoscopy he had because he didn’t want to suffer the jokes.
“Trump’s unexplained trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in 2019 sparked theories that the president had a secret illness. The explanation, according to Grisham, is much more straightforward. She hints that Trump went for a colonoscopy, but didn’t disclose the reason for the trip because he didn’t want to be ‘the butt of a joke’ on late-night TV. Grisham reportedly writes: ‘As with COVID, he was too wrapped up in his own ego and his own delusions about his invincibility,'” the Daily Beast reports.
Grisham also alleges that the White House staff lied to Trump so Air Force One could be used to transport George H.W. Bush’s casket.
“When former President George H. W. Bush died in 2018, White House staff wanted to follow tradition to allow the Bush family use of Air Force One. But, according to Grisham, they hid that plan from Trump. ‘We knew he wouldn’t be OK with that, even for a brief trip,’ Grisham writes. ‘Dead bodies, death, sickness—those things really seemed to creep him out.’ In the end, the plane was loaned to the Bushes for the funeral,” the Beast reports.