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September 28, 2021, 11:32 am
Another tell-all book about the Trump presidency and his closest allies has been released, this time by former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, who failed to hold a single televised press briefing and who now allegedly regrets failing to stand up to Donald Trump when it might have made a real difference. Now she gets to enjoy the cash flow from I’ll Take Your Questions Now, which will be released to the public on October 5.
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Meanwhile, those who have received advanced copies are marveling at some of the strange, sordid, and sometimes horrifically amusing details, including the claim that Trump’s staff had to designate someone the White House “Music Man” to play the former president his favorite songs when he got really mad. Trump allegedly preferred show tunes including “Memory” from Cats, just to make things as weird as humanly possible.
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This “Music Man” was initially unnamed but has been revealed as Max Miller, Grisham’s ex-boyfriend and former White House official who is now running for a seat in the House, hoping to represent a district in his home state of Ohio, with Trump’s support. He has remained in Trump’s good graces by downplaying the January 6 assault on the Capitol, falsely claiming it to have been “mostly peaceful.” He has also echoed Trump’s lies around the 2020 election.
According to Grisham’s book, Trump’s explosive temper was a frequent problem and worry for his staff, with aides and counsel routinely enduring his screaming whenever they informed him that something he wanted to do was illegal or generally wrong.
“He didn’t like them telling him that things he wanted to do were unethical or illegal,” she wrote. “So he’d scream at them. But then he’d usually listen. And then yell at them again later.”
Grisham says she herself was terrified of becoming the subject of his rage, particularly after he asked her to find a way to get the press “permanently evicted” from the press briefing room, however that would work. She credits his trip to North Korea as Trump’s inspiration for wanting to turn the press briefing room into just a room, which was not the only thing the former president reportedly admired about dictator Kim Jong-un.
“‘When I began to see how his temper wasn’t just for shock value or the cameras,’ she writes, ‘I began to regret my decision to go to the West Wing.’”
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The “Music Man” detail from the New York Times article on the book has captured America’s attention perhaps more than any other, with the phrase soon trending on Twitter along with “Memory.” The reaction to this news among Trump critics is about what you would expect.
TRUMP: Nuke Switzerland!
MUSIC MAN:Midnight, all alone in the moonlight…
TRUMP: On second thought, just buy Greenland.— Mr. Newberger (@jeremynewberger) September 28, 2021
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Sing us a song you’re the music man
Sing us a song tonight
Well Ivanka’s committing a felony
And Don Junior doesn’t seem right— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) September 28, 2021
*First Published: September 28, 2021, 11:32 am
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