I love Michael Wolff's insider gossip books, because they center around one premise: It's so stressful to work for looney-tunes Trump, his staffers have to vent to somebody -- and that somebody is usually him. According to Wolff, it turns out Lumpy is furious over the rainy day military parade. Via the Daily Beast:
Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast that Trump wanted a “menacing” show of force to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary and his 79th birthday on Saturday—but got a “festive” parade instead.
“He’s p---ed off at the soldiers,” Wolff said. “He’s accusing them of hamming it up, and by that, he seems to mean that they were having a good time, that they were waving, that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.”
As thousands of soldiers flanked by tanks made their way past empty bleachers along Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., social media users pointed out that the soldiers were marching out of sync, and the muted atmosphere appeared to match the gloomy weather.
[...] “He kind of reamed out Hegseth for this,” the Trump biographer said. “Apparently, there was a phone call, and he said to Hegseth, the tone was all wrong. Why was the tone wrong? Who staged this? There was the tone problem. Trump, he keeps repeating himself.”
Wolff says Trump wanted a message that he was the commander in chief of this "menacing enterprise." (Maybe he should have hired the flying monkeys from "The Wizard of Oz"?)
The White House once again blasted Wolff as “a lying sack of s--t” who “has been proven to be a fraud.” But please notice: Trump has never sued him.
