Then Trump imposed a set of new rules, Wolff writes: “Nobody touch anything, especially not his toothbrush.”
Trump is a self-described germophobe: by Wolff’s account in the book fire and fury, he has also long been afraid of being poisoned. This, Wolff writes, is “one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald’s – nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely pre-made”.
Wolff also writes that Trump requested two television sets be added to his bedroom, which already had one in place. Most days, Wolff writes, Trump preferred to be in bed by 6.30pm, watching his three televisions, eating a cheeseburger and making telephone calls to friends and confidants.
Trump also reportedly harangued domestic staff who would try to clear his floor of laundry, yelling: “If my shirt is on the floor, it’s because I want it on the floor.
” He would also strip his own bed, according to Wolff, when he decided his sheets needed a change.
Trump began his tenure in the presidential residence by requesting a lock be placed on the door of his bedroom – during “the first time since the Kennedy White House that a presidential couple had maintained separate rooms” – in what is by any standard one of the most secure homes in the world.
