White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham claimed lied that Obama aides left nasty notes all over the White House after Donald Trump’s inauguration. The notes, according to Grisham, offered predictions like “You will fail,” and “You aren’t going to make it.”
Grisham, of course, almost immediately walked back her story.
“Everyone is so sensitive,” she said about the people whom she disparaged.
If the Obama aides’ notes really existed, then surely Trump would have mentioned them in one of the plethora of tweets, interviews, or press conferences he’s had since 2017.
Instead the only comment about a note left in the White House on record is Trump literally praising and gushing about the “beautiful letter” he received from Barack Obama. It all happened during an interview he did with ABC News, shortly after his inauguration in early 2017, when David Muir asked Trump what President Obama left for him in the Oval Office desk, as part of a longstanding tradition.
Let’s roll the tape.
Here’s a transcript!
Trump: “And this was the letter given to me by President Obama.”
Muir: “We saw that image of him that final morning that he was here putting the letter on the desk.”
Trump: Which was, I won’t show it to you, read it to you, but a — just a, a beautiful letter.”
Muir: “Is there’ a line you can share that struck you the most?”
Trump: “There were numerous lines, so well-written, so thoughtful. So thoughtful. And in the drawer, you know, put in the drawer, which is a custom, but I doubt too many of them were written in this manner. He really — in fact, I called him and thanked him for the thought that was out into that letter.”
Muir: “I have to say, I have looked at a lot of those presidential letters. That one looks a lot longer than the ones that I’ve seen.”
Trump: “It was long, it was complex, it was thoughtful, and it took time to do it, and I appreciated it, and I called him and thanked him.”
There is no limit on how low this White House is willing to go, and this is just the latest proof that there truly is no bottom.