NEW YORK (AP) – Ferocious tantrums. Family gossip. Petty nicknames.
Stephanie Grisham, once a White House press secretary and chief of staff to first lady Melania Trump, is out with a book next week that paints a deeply unflattering picture of Donald Trump – a man with a “terrifying” temper who ogled a young aide and tried to impress dictators while president, she writes.
Grisham, who holds the distinction of having never held a press briefing while serving as White House press secretary, charts her path from low-level press wrangler to the Trumps’ inner circles, and her gradual disillusionment with the family and eventual resignation following the Jan. 6 insurrection.
As have the many books critical of Trump, Grisham’s “I’ll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House” has drawn Trump’s ire. He bashed the book and its author in deeply personal terms, saying in a statement that Grisham was “paid by a radical left-leaning publisher to say bad and untrue things.”
Highlights of the book include: