A new tell-all book about the Trump White House revealed many of the president's stranger requests — including a truly bizarre one he made to Disney.
The Daily Beast reported that in his new book Team of Vipers, former White House aide Cliff Sims revealed that Trump tried to get Disney to allow him to claim America had invented the skyscraper.
Soon after he was elected president in 2016, "a Disney crew was dispatched to the White House to record the new president’s voice, which would be played through an animatron at Disney World’s Hall of Presidents."
The "typical right of passage for a new president" excited Trump — and he "wanted his robotic likeness to tell Disney-goers that Americans had invented the skyscraper and to remind them of his own career in real estate," the report noted.
According to Sims, Trump remarked: “Then I could add a little, ‘Which, of course, I know a thing or two about,’ right?”
Disney executives reportedly denied Trump's request, with one noting that Americans didn't invent skyscrapers and that it was "just a taller building."
The Beast noted that Sims' book contained anecdotes far more salacious than Trump's "boyish excitement" over his robotic doppelganger.
After an interview on the White House's South Lawn during his tumultuous ten-day run as White House press secretary, Anthony Scaramucci reportedly bragged about the size of his penis to a pair of black cameramen.
Scaramucci, the former Trump aide wrote, “put both hands on his belt buckle, leaned in close to the cameramen—each of whom happened to be African American—and said, ‘Can I tell you guys something? We’ve already hit it off, and I think I know one of the reasons why.’"
"Mooch paused for a few moments to build the anticipation," the book added. "‘It’s ’cause I’m black from the waist down.’”
According to Sims' retelling, the cameramen "hysterically" laughed at the comment, with one yelling "He's crazy!" — much to Scaramucci's pleasure.
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