I shall be in late today because I am engaged in executive time, I tell him. It seems he spends 8am to 11am engaged in “executive time”, which means spending time in the residential part of the White House “watching TV, making phone calls and tweeting”. Axios has reported that Trump doesn’t do very much work.
I follow his lead and take the sheets off my bed, dumping them on the floor. When the time comes for a bedding change, he strips the bed himself and throws the sheets on the floor. Trump also doesn’t like people removing his bed sheets. If he throws a shirt on the floor, the White House cleaning staff are not allowed to pick it up. No one is allowed to touch his belongings. In his early days in the White House, he tried to fit a lock on his bedroom door, but the Secret Service wouldn’t allow it. Within the domestic sphere, Trump is said to be extremely particular. They sleep in separate bedrooms and Wolff reckons they can go days without seeing each other. Day twoĪs a single person, it’s easy to replicate Trump’s relationship with his wife, Melania. I ask Jono if he thinks the American public has faith in me. I try to segue back to my financial stability. We talk for a bit about a mutual friend who recently got married. “I’d say my approval ratings are fairly positive, right?” Jono disagrees.
“You know I’ve never been declared bankrupt?” I ask Jono. And while the nation is yet to be polled on how they think I’m performing, I’m pretty sure my approval ratings wouldn’t be as bad as Trump’s. But then I’ve yet to bankrupt a single company, let alone four. Trump might have inherited his fortune from his father, but he is undeniably a very wealthy man. ‘My friend hangs up on me.’ Photograph: Joshua Bright/The Guardian I haven’t really got that much to brag about. Fire and Fury says that this extends to private conversation. It’s no secret that Trump likes to brag about himself. That’s good because I’ve been working on channelling Trump’s style of conversation. It says: “What do you want you little bitch?” I don’t phone her again. I leave her a message saying I’m calling to “catch up”. But after an hour in bed, with only a rightwing news channel for company, I am quite bored. I don’t usually talk to my friends on the phone. Trump is usually in bed by that time, Wolff wrote, “with a cheeseburger, watching his three screens and making phone calls” to friends. The president professes to hate CNN and MSNBC, but he professes it with a level of knowledge that suggests he watches both channels, so they are playing on a desktop computer and my laptop.Īt 6.30pm, I get into bed.
There is a TV playing Fox News – Trump’s favourite.
According to Fire and Fury, when Trump moved into the White House he asked for two extra televisions to be installed in his bedroom, so he could have three channels playing at once. I spend Sunday getting my apartment Trump-ready. Mimicking the life of a 71-year-old man who spends a large portion of his time in bed eating junk food is a daunting task.