President Donald Trump was privately weirded out by tech billionaire Elon Musk's behavior when they first hit the campaign trail together during the presidential election last year, author Michael Wolff wrote in his upcoming book "All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America," according to The Daily Beast.
"Musk famously bounced around the stage in a black MAGA hat with his t-shirt untucked and baring his stomach during a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the scene of the failed assassination attack," reported David Gardner. "According to author Michael Wolff, a 'bewildered' Trump said afterward: 'What the f--- is wrong with this guy? And why doesn’t his shirt fit?'"
Wolff went on to write that Musk was “wandering about by himself, with only a thin layer of assistants or security” at that rally, then dived into a bag of pretzel sticks when he started feeling hungry, and rebuffed an offer to speak to then-Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), saying, “I’ve really no interest in speaking to a vice president.”
The book contains a number of other juicy behind-the-scenes quotes, including that Trump privately pushed the QAnon conspiracy theory that Michelle Obama was actually a man and that, “They think she looks pretty manly. Those very big shoulders. What’s that about? That’s what people will call her if she runs, ‘Mike.’ That’s the name she’ll have: ‘Mike.’”
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He also reportedly raged that he has "s---ty lawyers" after being indicted in the Manhattan hush money trial, and told his attorney Todd Blanche, “I don’t even know what you’re doing here? I told you to stop this ... I paid you to handle this. But you’re blowing it ... Why are you so weak? I don’t know why I’m paying you.”
A separate report also indicated that Wolff reveals from a source in the book that First Lady Melania Trump "hates" her husband, which is why she is hardly ever seen at political events anymore.
Asked for comment by The Beast, White House Press Secretary Steven Cheung responded, “Michael Wolff is a lying sack of s--t and has been proven to be a fraud. He routinely fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination, only possible because he has a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain.”
