Tough Manly Testosterone Man Donald Trump apparently needs softer towels on Air Force One to dry his Massively Yuge Hands.
In off-record interviews with the New York Times, staffers within the Trump White House told reporters that President Trump is fascinated with the phone system in the White House, marveling that they’re “the most beautiful phones” the real estate mogul has ever used in his life. However, another nugget unearthed by The Huffington Post’s S.V. Date and Christina Wilkie is that Trump registered an official complaint about the hand towels aboard Air Force One, with an anonymous White House aide telling Date and Wilkie that Trump doesn’t think the towels are soft enough.
In addition to his complaints about the towels, White House leakers told the Post that the 45th President of the United States doesn’t like to read lengthy memos, preferring they instead be a single page with no more than nine bullet points. Trump, however, does still dedicate many hours per day to watching television, waking up around 5 or 6 AM and catching all of the morning cable news shows, from MSNBC’s Morning Joe to Fox & Friends, while also watching evening cable news programs. The Times reported that due to his wife and youngest son remaining in New York City, President Trump is frequently alone in the White House residence with just the tube and Twitter to keep him company.
Mr. Trump’s wife, Melania, went back to New York on Sunday night with their 10-year-old son, Barron, and so Mr. Trump has the television — and his old, unsecured Android phone, to the protests of some of his aides — to keep him company. That was the case after 9 p.m. on Tuesday, when Mr. Trump appeared to be reacting to Bill O’Reilly’s show on Fox News, which was airing a feature on crime in Chicago.
The abundance of leaks about Trump’s seeming lack of readiness for the duties of being Commander-in-Chief may stem from his staff’s fundamental lack of confidence in the leader of the free world. Eliot Cohen, who was a top-tier staffer in George W. Bush’s State Department, told the Post that the leaks will likely continue.
“This is what happens when you have a narcissist as president,” Cohen said.
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