Grisham: Trump pretended to act tough with Putin for the cameras

Russian President Vladimir Putin brought an ‘attractive’ translator with him to distract former President Donald Trump at their 2019 meeting – and Trump told Putin he would act tough in front of the cameras and then play nice privately, former White House official Stephanie Grisham reveals in her forthcoming tell-all. 

‘OK, I’m going to act a little tougher with you for a few minutes. But it’s for the cameras, and after they leave, we’ll talk. You understand,’ Trump had told Putin when they met in June 2019 in Japan at the G20, Grisham recounted.  

Copies of Grisham’s book – I’ll Take Your Questions Now, What I Saw at Trump White House – were obtained by The Washington Post and The New York Times. It hits bookshelves on October 5. 

Grisham includes bizarre details about Trump’s behavior. 

For instance, she claims he cuts his hair with a ‘huge pair of scissors that could probably cut a ribbon at an opening of one of his properties.’  

She also writes that one of Trump’s aides – later revealed to be Grisham’s ex-boyfriend Max Miler, who is running for an Ohio Congressional seat and has been endorsed by Trump – would play him his favorite show tunes, including ‘Memory’ from Cats, to calm him down during tantrums. 

Grisham described Trump’s temper as ‘terrifying.

But she also filled in some blanks about some of the most memorable moments of Trump’s one term. 

The Trump meeting with Putin came 11 months after the infamous Helsinki summit where Trump seemed to side with the Russian president over American intelligence agencies on whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.

At the July 2018 meeting, Trump said Putin offered an ‘extremely strong and powerful’ denial. 

At their 2019 meeting in Japan, Trump playfully scolded and wagged a finger at Putin in front of the cameras telling the Russian leader, ‘don’t meddle in the election,’ before they met behind closed doors for 90 minutes without journalists present. 

According to The Times, Grisham conversed with Fiona Hill – the administration’s Russia expert turned impeachment 1.0 witness – who explained what Putin was doing to throw Trump off.  

‘As the meeting began, Fiona Hill leaned over and asked me if I had noticed Putin’s translator, who was a very attractive brunette woman with long hair, a pretty face, and a wonderful figure,’ Grisham wrote. ‘She proceeded to tell me that she suspected the woman had been selected by Putin specifically to distract our president.’ 

A brunette woman with a blue dress can be seen following Putin into the room as the Russian leader greets the American delegation in Osaka.  

Trump continued the womanizing behavior he was known for as a brash Manhattan real estate tycoon at the White House, Grisham revealed, writing that he repeatedly invited a young press aide to his Air Force One cabin – one time to look at her behind. 

Trump instructed Grisham to ‘keep her happy.’ 

Grisham tried to keep the staffer away from the president, she wrote.  

The ex-press secretary, who went on to become Melania Trump’s chief of staff before quitting in the aftermath of the January 6 insurrection also recalled how Trump insisted his penis was not shaped like a toadstool – responding to comments made by porn star Stormy Daniels.   

Daniels wrote in a 2018 book on her affair with the former president: ‘I lay there, annoyed that I was getting f***ed by a guy with Yeti pubes and a d*** like the mushroom character in Mario Kart.’ 

Trump, upon hearing the allegation, called his press secretary from Air Force one to assure her his penis was neither small nor shaped like a toadstool, Grisham, in her new salacious tell-all ‘I’ll Take Your Questions Now,’ obtained by the Washington Post.

The book will be released publicly on Oct. 5.  

Grisham also wrote that the former president once asked her former boyfriend, Miller, if she was good in bed.  

The Daniels affair, Grisham wrote, ‘unleashed’ Melania’s vengeance as she began trying to contradict her husband in public. 

When Grisham drafted a tweet requesting privacy at the time of the affair, saying that Melania would focus on being on her roles as first lady, wife and mother, Melania had her scrub the tweet of the word ‘wife.’ 

And during the State of the Union address, she walked in arm-in-arm with a handsome military aide hand-selected by Grisham because the floors of the Capitol were ‘slippery.’ 

‘I laughed to myself because I’d seen the woman navigate dirt roads in her heels,’ Grisham writes.   

Grisham, 45, served as press secretary to Trump from July 2019 to April 2020, wherein those 12 months she never once held a press conference. She then returned to her previous role as press secretary to First Lady Melania from April 2020 until January 2021.

‘This book is another pitiful attempt to cash in on the President’s strength and sell lies about the Trump family, said Trump spokeswoman Liz Harrington. 

Harrington termed Grisham a ‘a disgruntled former employee’ – a term has applied in the past to aides who have written tell-alls. She said the book’s publishers ‘should be ashamed of themselves for preying on desperate people who see the short term gain in writing a book full of falsehoods.’

Publisher Harper Collins calls the book ‘The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet.’

Grisham resigned from her post on Jan. 6th, the day of the Capitol riot. 

Trump went after Grisham personally in a statement to the New York Times.

‘Stephanie didn’t have what it takes and that was obvious from the beginning,’ Trump said. ‘She had big problems and we felt that she should work out those problems for herself. Now, like everyone else, she gets paid by a radical left-leaning publisher to say bad and untrue things.’