EXCLUSIVE: White House guest claims Trump indicated he swapped out Oval Office ‘secret toilet’ because Obama used it: New book claims he would TIP military aides and filled his bathroom with hairspray
- Trump would sometimes show visitors his ‘secret bathroom’
- He would claim he had renovated the space ‘down to the toilet’
- He told one visitor: ‘You understand what I’m talking about?’
- Guest ‘interpreted it to mean Trump did not want to use the same bathroom as his black predecessor’
- The claim is included in Maggie Haberman’s new book, Confidence Man
- Book also says he stocked bathrooms with Trump products and was warned by staff not to try to tip military aides
- Trump effectively launchd his presidential campaign with debunked claims Obama wasn’t born in the US
Former President Donald Trump would tell certain White House guests that he had a personal ‘secret bathroom’ just off the Oval Office renovated after succeeding Barack Obama – using language one guest took to have racist subtext.
The claim, which was based on how the visitor took the odd comment, is included in New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman’s new book on Trump, Confidence man.
The book, which is out Tuesday, includes an account of the strange comment about the bathroom just off the Oval Office, which Trump would sometimes refer to as the ‘Monica room,’ after former President Bill Clinton‘s trysts with a White House intern – bringing his twin obsessions with Obama and Clinton into the same cramped space.
‘When Trump showed visitors his workplace, he invited some to peer into what he periodically described as his “secret bathroom,” which he occasionally presented with the claim he had renovated the entire space down to the toilet,’ Haberman writes.
Former President Donald Trump would tell guests about his ‘secret bathroom’ off the Oval Office, and claimed he had it renovated after President Barack Obama left, according to ‘Confidence Man’ by Maggie Haberman. ‘You understand what I’m talking about?’ he told a visitor, who took the comment to mean he ‘did not want to use the same bathroom as his black predecessor,’ according to Haberman
‘”You understand what I’m talking about?” Trump said to one guest,’ Haberman writes in a passage obtained by DailyMail.com – in a comment the Trump visitor took as code for disgust with his predecessor.
‘The statement was strange and vague and open to interpretation as to why he emphasized the changes, but the guest interpreted it to mean Trump did not want to use the same bathroom as his Black predecessor,’ Haberman writes.
An odd footnote to the reported claims is that no such renovation appears to have taken place.
‘Trump’s claim of a full remodeling happened to be untrue, officials said at the time: only the toilet seat was replaced, which was customary during a change in office holder. The most significant addition he made might have been the collection of hairsprays that some visitors took note of.’
Trump raised his profile by claiming President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the US
Trump would tell visitors he had renovated his ‘secret bathroom,’ according to Maggie Haberman’s new book
Another passage includes images of torn up documents inside a White House toilet
A guest interpreted Trump’s comment ‘to mean Trump did not want to use the same bathroom as his black predecessor’
Obama occupied the Oval Office for eight years before Trump’s upset victory over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Trump made other redecorating changes, including adding a wrestling belt to a small room off the Oval that was given to him by Vince McMahon
Battles over public accommodations and drinking fountains for blacks and whites were a key battleground of the civil rights movement.
Trump has long denied accusations of racism, and once called him self the ‘least racist person in the world.’
Trump’s bathroom issues are a fixture of other parts of the book – which also includes photos of torn up documents in a White House toilet, bearing words that resemble Trump’s handwriting. That topic has already featured into the House January 6 investigation, and could even flow into a Justice Department investigation of alleged document destruction.
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman’s book Confidence Man will hit shelves Oct. 4 – just one month before the 2022 midterms
Yet another bizarre powder room passage notes that bathrooms in the residence were ‘stocked with Trump-branded toiletries.’
‘Staff repeatedly stopped [the president] when he tried to press cash into the hands of military aides serving as valets,’ according to the book.
Lewinsky herself has described the room Trump is reported to have said he renovated as ‘a private personal office that is off to the side that consists of a back study, a dining room, a little pantry and a bathroom.’
According to Haberman, Trump decorated it with a large TV and various ‘knick-knacks,’ as well as a wrestling belt gifted by former wrestling impresario Vince McMahon, who left the WWE this summer after a string of scandals.
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