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In reply to the discussion: The audiobook for Fire and Fury is posted to youtube. [View all]gvstn
(2,805 posts)So here's the full Fire & Fury list from everything I collated. Y'all can remind me if I forgot anything.
1) Trump's aides say he doesn't read and 'for all practical purposes is no more than semi-literate'
2) Whole campaign planned for defeat; Trump himself planning TV network because he'd be 'most famous man in the world'
3) Trump assured Melania he wouldn't win as she wanted to go back to regular life, she openly wept election night of misery
4) Staff on Trump: "semi-literate", "dope", "dumb as ****", "hopeless idiot", "just a f**ing fool', 'lost his mind', 'incapable of functioning in his job'
5) Trump tells the same stories three times in ten minutes and forgot a succession of old friends' names at a Mar-a-Lago party
6) Corey Lewandowski cheated on his wife with Hope Hicks, Hope fled the room after Trump called her 'the best piece of tail' Corey would ever have
7) Bannon on Trump Tower meeting: 'treasonous' and 'unpatriotic'; The "Kushner [real estate] **** is greasy...goes through Deutsche Bank...it's all about money laundering"
8) Bannon: Mueller will crack Don Jr. like an egg on national TV
9) Bannon: 'Zero' chance Donald Trump didn't know about the meeting, Don Jr likely 'walked them to his father's office'
10) Bannon abused wife at former meth and **** lair in Miami, after leaked report Trump gave him nickname 'Bam Bam'
11) Katie Walsh on Trump: 'Like a child'
12) Stephen Miller had to look up "how to write Executive Order" on Google to formulate travel ban during transition
13) Mark Corallo quit because he thought the Air Force One meeting constituted obstruction of justice
14) Charlie Kushner's panic over Mueller looking into Jared and Ivanka's finances spurred Trump's firing of Comey
15) Bannon kept Pence out of meetings with Jared/Ivanka as 'fallback guy' because he thought they were too involved with Russia
16) The president called acting attorney general Sally Yates a 'c***' after she refused to enforce his immigration ban
17) Henry Kissinger: The White House has become a "war between the Jews and the non-Jews"
18) Bannon on Ivanka: "dumb as a brick"
19) Trump kept trying to rationalize to staff after Charlottesville why someone would join the KKK
20) Trump offered to marry Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough - and mocked Jared Kushner for saying he'd do it
21) Ivanka: Trump's hair is orange from an impatience with 'Just for Men', head shaped strange from scalp-reduction surgery, combs over from sides
22) Trump orders so much McDonalds so he's not poisoned; regularly sits in bed at 6:30 eating a cheeseburger calling friends and watching 3 TVS
23) Trump wondered what a 'golden shower' was after reading reports about the notorious Russian dossier
24) Trump would try to bed his friends' wives by goading their husbands to cheat while the wife listened in on speakerphone
25) He called Jared Kushner a 'suck-up' and said he should never have let Ivanka and her husband move to Washington
26) Trump on staff: Conway 'crybaby', Spicey 'stupid', Reince 'weak'/'midget', Bannon 'disloyal'/'looked like s***'
27) Told housekeeping not to touch his toothbrush, berated them endlessly for not leaving shirts on the floor; strips own bedsheets after weeks on end
28) Trump and Melania sleep in separate bedrooms, he demanded a lock on his bedroom door against the wishes of the Secret Service
29) Didn't know who John Boehner was on multiple occasions
30) Ailes on Trump: Don't give him too much to think about
31) Murdoch on Trump: A ****ing idiot
32) Tom Barrack on Trump: He's not only crazy, he's stupid
33) Sean Spicer: Said 'You can't make up this ****' after first briefing, made it personal mantra and doubted if he'd ever work again
34) Trump ignored Ann Coulter's consistent warnings about hiring his kids
35) Ivanka considered running for president
36) Ivanka insisted Kellyanne first be pulled from cable for her 'idiotic militancy'
37) Kellyanne frequently mocked Trump behind the scenes in just facial expressions, expressing a 'visceral distaste' for him
38) Tucker Carlson was considered for Sean Spicer's role
39) Jared and Bannon each ran their own communication shops, leaking to media separately stories disparaging about each other
40) Trump was obsessed with Maggie Haberman's stories in the New York Times despite her critical portrayals of him
41) Trump wanted Rudy Giuliani for SCOTUS
42) Trump saw Jared as Secretary of State