The four wildest stories about Donald Trump in new book ‘A Very Stable Genius’, from meltdowns to memory lapses
- Trump is under the spotlight in the book, from a tantrum over bathroom tiles in the 1980s to forgetting what Pearl Harbour was in 2017
- The authors, Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, are called ‘two stone cold losers from Amazon’ by Trump
A new book by Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig sheds new light on the White House, and what appears to be a very chaotic administration. A Very Stable Genius, which took inspiration for its title from one of President Donald Trump’s tweets, was released on January 21.
According to publisher Penguin Random House, the book draws on “scores of exclusive new interviews with some of the most senior members of the Trump administration and other first-hand witnesses”. These sources tell the story of a seemingly unhinged president, who regularly demeans and degrades his staff, who lacks fundamental knowledge necessary for the job, and who isn’t being properly protected.
Trump responded to the book’s impending release with a tweet on Monday, calling Rucker and Leonnig “two stone cold losers from Amazon [Washington Post]”. “Almost every story is a made up lie, just like corrupt pol Shifty Schiff, who fraudulently made up my call with Ukraine. Fiction!” he wrote.
Here are four of the wildest stories about Trump from the book.
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