He has banned White House employees from touching his toothbrush and other personal items.
For the president of the United States, Donald Trump, the fast food chain McDonald's is to food what Fox News is to television, that is, the best in its field. Trump has praised the fast-food giant for its "great" products and overall "cleanliness." Now a book suggests there is another, darker factor fueling the president's culinary taste.
In the book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, journalist Michael Wolff claims that [Trump's] "fear of being poisoned" has affected his eating choices.
It is "one of the reasons he liked to eat at McDonald's; no one knew he was going there and the food was already safely prepared," Wolff wrote in New York Magazine on Wednesday.
Trump's fear of contagion, whether deliberate or not, also led him to impose "new rules" at the White House that prohibit employees from touching his toothbrush and other personal items, according to Wolff. It is unknown if the president thinks there is a specific person or group that is trying to harm him.
This revelation about Trump's concern about poison is one of many fascinating claims Wolff makes in his forthcoming book. The president reportedly expressed his deep distaste for members of his inner circle—Steve Bannon "was disloyal (not to mention always looking shitty)"—his curiosity about the meaning of the "golden shower" and his disinterest for constitutional issues.
"I was going through the Fourth Amendment when he put his finger in his mouth and rolled his eyes," a campaign adviser tasked with explaining the Constitution to Trump, then a presidential candidate, told Wolff.
