"Melania, trophy wife Donald loves to betray": insults and revelations in Wolff's book
NEW YORK Insults, stabbing in the back and palace games: in the 336 pages of Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff the surreal world of Trumpism is reconstructed, daily life in the chaotic palace of the president, with its gossip, quarrels, hatred. Much is already known, but a careful reading always reveals new details.
DONALD, MELANIA, IVANKA
Aside from adviser Stephen Bannon, the only other person who was certain from the start that Trump would win was Melania. And the former model was not happy at all. Her daughter Ivanka, for her part, did not believe in her victory and made fun of her stepmother with her friends, claiming that her "belief in her" was proof of her "lack of intelligence". Trump, also certain he would lose, had assured Melania that victory was "impossible", and that she could continue to lead her very private life, entirely devoted to raising her son Barron.
In fact, Melania and Donald saw very little, they rarely met and often one did not know where the other was. But he was proud of that beautiful wife of hers, whom during her campaign, even in her presence, he called "my trophy wife."
INSULTS TO COLLABORATORS
Steve Bannon is a traitor as well as a m-face, former cabinet chief Reince Priebus is weak but also short in stature. Son-in-law Jared Kushner is sneaky, capable of any flattery for his own gain. The habit of assigning derogations goes far beyond the sphere of enemies, and embraces the men closest to him. Former spokesman Sean Spicer is a fool, and besides, he looks terrible, his adviser Kellyanne Conway is a whiner. In the White House, the two sons Donald Jr. and Eric are known by the names of Saddam Hussein's sons: Uday and Qusay.
WHO HURTS BY SWORD
For Gary Cohn Trump it is: "Inert as an m". For Steve Mnuchin and Reince Priebus he is simply an idiot, while for Rupert Murdoch he is a "fucking idiot". Much of the insults Wolff has gathered relate to the president's IQ. He's a fool for H.R. McMaster, a little boy to former deputy cabinet chief Katie Walsh, a nine-year-old boy to Steve Bannon. Personal friend Thomas Barrack Jr calls him not only crazy, but also stupid.
MARRIED LOYALTY
From the height of the experience of three marriages, Trump concluded that the greater the age difference with the bride, the greater her ability to endure betrayal. According to him, one of the pleasures of life is taking his friends' wives to bed. The tactic is to engage in salacious conversations with the men in his office, while the wives secretly listen to the conversations. At that point it is a game to convince her that her husband is not worthy of their allegiance.
THE PARTY
The inauguration day was terrible for the president. He wanted to spend the previous night in the luxury of the newly opened Trump Hotel, and instead had to settle for the relative modesty of the Blair House across from the White House, which he complained about all day. He was at odds with Melania, and he treated her with abrupt and rude ways that pushed her to the edge of tears. The absence of celebrities at the ceremony sent him into a rage.
MACHIAVELLIC GAMES
The book reconstructs a dinner just after the election between Steven Bannon and Roger Ailes, during which Trump's strategist asked Ailes, former head of Fox News, to convince Trump that Fox owner Rupert Murdoch was "Suffering from senility". According to Wolff, Bannon's intention was to "disqualify" Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who was very close to Murdoch and from this friendship drew authority and importance in the eyes of the president. In reality, the opposite happens: Trump admires Murdoch very much, and continues to regard him as an idol. In fact, if anything, argues Wolff, it was Murdoch who tried to shake off Trump, complaining that he "never managed to finish the phone calls" and once even went so far as to call him "a fucking idiot."
THE RUSSIAGATE
"Jared takes care of it, he has everything under control," the president allegedly told former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, who together with Steve Bannon tried to warn him against the pitfalls of the scandal, when the first revelations began to leak out. Washington. Trump until then was unable to grasp the seriousness of the situation, nor to understand the details. At the time of the publication of the dossier of the British spy Christopher Steele, which, among other things, told of a hypothetical meeting of Trump with Russian prostitutes in a Moscow hotel, the president had to ask himself what a golden shower is.
FATHER-IN-LAW AND GENDER
Jared Kushner was originally a Democrat, but in the campaign year he had shifted to Trumpism. According to Wolff, the young entrepreneur felt it was his mission to soften positions b
