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According to the former CEO of AT&T, a meeting with Donald Trump over the threat posed by China to American telecom networks fell apart because the former president couldn't stop talking about adult film star Stormy Daniels.

As explained in a new book from the New York Times' David Sanger, Randall Stephenson recalled that he was brought to the Oval Office in 2019 to discuss the growing threat, but instead met with a distracted Trump who spent the first 45 minutes ranting about Daniels and male and female relations.

In Sanger's book, "New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West," which the Guardian obtained before its release, Stephenson said he made his appearance at the former president's request, only to hear a list of grievances before turning to the reason he was there, at which point Trump reportedly told him, "This is boring."

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As reported in the book, Stephenson told Sanger: "Trump burned up the first 45 minutes of the meeting by riffing on how men got into trouble. It was all about women and private planes, he claimed. Then he went into a long diatribe about Stormy Daniels, the former porn star who claimed she had had an affair with him. It was ‘all part of the same stand-up comedy act’, Stephenson later recalled … and ‘we were left with 15 minutes to talk about Chinese infrastructure.’”

The executive admitted he "could see that the president’s mind was elsewhere," and made his escape after Trump's daughter Ivanka entered the room and the topic was changed.

As Donald Trump continues to try to make inroads with Black voters, his allegedly spontaneous viral visit to an Atlanta Chick-fil-A on Wednesday came at just the right time for the indicted ex-president as the patrons and staff, mostly young Black women, appeared to gush over him.

Fox News went wild over the encounter, calling it a "surprise visit."

On Friday, former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) gave a joint press conference at Mar-a-Lago to introduce an initiative aimed at preventing non-citizens from voting. But one Fox News host slammed that policy proposal as a red herring.

Johnson joined Trump for the press conference in the wake of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) threatening to bring a motion to vacate to the floor of the House of Representatives in protest of Johnson's bipartisan efforts to keep the federal government open. Trump made it clear that Johnson had his support, despite Greene saying on Friday that the speaker was "full of sh--" during an interview with former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.

While dressing down Speaker Mike Johnson for paying fealty to former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, former White House spokesperson Anthony Scaramucci predicted his ex-boss is going to be outmatched on the evidence alone.

"What are you doing, standing next to that guy," Scaramucci figuratively asked about Johnson while appearing on CNN. "And what happened to the backbone of the Republican party? How did you let this guy hijack the entire party, the party of Lincoln and Reagan, and throw it in the toilet like this?