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President Trumpmaynot like to read books, but a new book reports that he loves to read his own tweets.
“[President Trump] ordered printouts of his recent tweets that had received a high number of likes, 200,000 or more,” the veteran journalist writes inFear, on sale now. “He studied them to find the common themes in the most successful… The most effective tweets were often the most shocking.”
Calling Twitter his “megaphone to the world,” and a way to “speak directly to the people without any filter,” Trump didn’t care that his tweets weren’t “presidential,” according to the book. On June 29, Woodward writes that Trump tweeted at former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, who co-host MSNBC’sMorning Joeand had morphed from campaign supporters to “regular detractors.”
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“I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore),” Trump tweeted. “Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year’s Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!”
White House chief of staff Reince Priebus was less than thrilled. He described Trump as “going bananas” and approached the president, according toFear.
“I know what you are going to say,” Trump reportedly told Priebus before he could say anything. “It’s not presidential. And guess what? I know it. But I had to do it anyway.”
“Priebus knew not to ask why,” Woodward writes.
She then joined forces with staffers Rob Porter, Gary Cohn, and White House social media director Dan Scavino to create a Twitter committee, Woodward writes.
“They would draft some tweets that they believed Trump would like,” he writes. “If the president had an idea for a tweet, he could write it down or get one of them in and they would vet it. Was it factually accurate? Was it spelled correctly? Did it make sense? Did it serve his needs?”
While Trump said he agreed with the plan, “he ignored most reviews or vetting and did what he wanted.”
Ironically, the president has taken to Twitter to denounce Woodward’s book.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sandersreleased a statement earlier this monthdenying the claims made in Woodward’s book.
Despite these White House denials, people are eager to read Woodward’s book. It’s based on hundreds of “deep background” interviews with sources close to the president.
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“During Trump’s first six months in the White House, few understood how much media he consumed,” Woodward writes. “It was scary. Trump didn’t show up for work until 11:00 in the morning. Many times he watched six to eight hours of television in a day. Think what your brain would be like if you did that? Bannon asked.”
“What are you doing? Why do you do this? Cut this off,” Bannon reportedly claims he told Trump. “It’s not meaningful. Just enjoy yourself.”
Trump typically responded with something like: “You see that? That’s a f—ing lie. Who the f—‘s…”
Bannon would say, according toFear, “Go play some slap and tickle with Melania.”
source: people.com
