In a story featured in the Washington Post, former Trump campaign aide Corey Lewandowski chronicles the Trump presidential campaign and how even his most loyal aides have to work from crisis to crisis, or more appropriately, one dumpster fire to another.
Elton John blares so loudly on Donald Trump’s campaign plane that staffers can’t hear themselves think. Press secretary Hope Hicks uses a steamer to press Trump’s pants — while he is still wearing them. Trump screams at his top aides, who are subjected to expletive-filled tirades in which they get their “face ripped off.”
And Trump’s appetite seems to know no bounds when it comes to McDonald’s, with a dinner order consisting of “two Big Macs, two Fillet-O-Fish, and a chocolate malted.”
The scenes are among the most surreal passages in a forthcoming book chronicling Trump’s path to the presidency co-written by Corey Lewandowski, who was fired as Trump’s campaign manager, and David Bossie, another top aide. The book, “Let Trump Be Trump,” paints a portrait of a campaign with an untested candidate and staff rocketing from crisis to crisis, in which Lewandowski and a cast of mostly neophyte political aides learn on the fly and ultimately accept Trump’s propensity to go angrily off message.
Apparently, Trump would get angry when his needs for fast food were not met, as well as berating campaign aide Hope Hicks when his suits were not pressed and steamed the way he liked, among other things. While Lewnadowski still wrote warmly about his former boss, he felt much differently about Paul Manafort and Steve Bannon.