š¤¢ Trump the Bathroom Slob?
The president is mad at authors Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan for the bathroom scenes in 'Regime Change.' Plus: the Supreme Court turns a blind eye to Trump's racism as it screws over Haitians.
On this day in 2015, by a 5-4 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law of the land. On the current court, reactionary Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have said the ruling should be reconsidered.
Happy Fridayā¦ finally! Itās Swin again. Since April, Iāve been covering Trumpworld blowback to Regime Change, the new book by New York Times reporters Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman. Months before its release, President Donald Trump ordered up a gigantic leak hunt to identify the pairās sources. The book ramped up Trumpās already searing paranoia, and his leak hunt stalled out largely because too many of the senior officials tasked with finding the leakers are themselves the leakers. Today, we can confirm a new wrinkle in this small saga that a) is indicative of the ultra-catty regime Americans now live under, and b) will likely make you laugh. And if thatās at a certain presidentās expense, oh well.
In todayās āFirst Draft,ā weāll get into the strange, strange detail in Haberman and Swanās just-published book that has the nominal leader of the free world squealing about his privacy. Plus, Trumpās pet Supreme Court justices delivered his nasty, racist regime a big win on immigration that will place thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants in danger of their lives.
āI Donāt Do That!ā
Thereās plenty about the book Regime Change thatās enraging the president of the United States. Donald Trump has been frustrated that the authorsā premier anonymous sources havenāt been punished. Heās still furious after all these months about the Iran war and White House Situation Room reporting. He got incandescently mad about the Jeffrey Epstein stuff.
Sometimes, it is hard to keep track of all the things that are slowly driving this world-historically petty president into a rage-filled psychotic abyss. In speaking to people very close to President Trump, itās been difficult to overstate how much this book has genuinely triggered him. But thereās something in the book that hasnāt gotten nearly the level of attention of the aforementioned scoopsā¦ and yet itās something that, according to sources familiar with the matter, has privately and absolutely infuriated the president and helped contribute to his decision to impose an intra-administration blackout on publicly talking about the book.
āIt makes him look so fucking gross,ā one senior Trump appointee tells me. āThe president sees everything, and he knows about the trash and bathroom sections, and thinks itās complete bullshit that it got published.ā
The perennially image-conscious and self-obsessed president was complaining to aides and other longtime advisers about the bookās descriptions of his bathroom and bedroom habits.