TRUMP SAID BANNON LOOKS HOMELESS AND NEEDS A SHOWER, ACCORDING TO MICHAEL WOLFF BOOK 'FIRE AND FURY'
BY TOM PORTER ON 1/6/18 AT 11:31 AM EST


President Donald Trump stands alongside Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon (L) upon arrival at Snap-On Tools in Kenosha, Wisconsin, April 18, 2017.SAUL LOEB/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

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President Donald Trump taunted his former chief strategist Steve Bannon for having poor hygiene, according to new extracts from Michael Wolff's bombshell new book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
According to extracts published Saturday in London's The Times newspaper, Trump maligned his dishevelled adviser at every given opportunity.
"If there was anything wrong with his White House, it was Steve Bannon. Maligning Bannon was Trump's idea of fun," writes Wolff.

President Donald Trump congratulates Senior Counselor to the President Steve Bannon during the swearing-in of senior staff in the East Room of the White House on January 22, 2017, in Washington, D.C.MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GETTY IMAES
"When it came to Bannon, Trump rose to something like high analysis: "Steve Bannon's problem is PR. He doesn't understand it. Everybody hates him. Because . . . look at him. His bad PR rubs off on other people," writes Wolff.
"The president had assembled a wide jury to weigh Bannon's fate, putting before it, in an insulting Borscht Belt style, a long list of Bannon's annoyances: "Guy looks homeless. Take a shower, Steve. You've worn those pants for six days. He says he's made money, I don't believe it." (The president, notably, never much took issue with Bannon's policy views.) The Trump administration was hardly two months old, yet every media outlet was predicting Bannon's coming defenestration."
Bannon was formerly one of the president's closest confidantes, but his relationship with the president has collapsed since the first extracts of the book were published last Wednesday. Bannon told Wolff that he believed that Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., had committed treason when he met with a Russian lawyer touting negative information about Hillary Clinton in June, 2016, and described Trump's eldest daughter and adviser, Ivanka, as "dumb as a brick."
Bannon also told Wolff he believed that Trump could be removed under the 25th Amendment—under which presidents deemed mentally unfit can forced to step aside—after Trump suggested that "both sides" were to blame for the violence by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August that left an anti-racism activist dead.
According to reports, Trump bridled in early 2016 at reports claiming that Bannon was the mastermind behind the populist insurgency that led to Trump's election, and in particular at a February, 2017, Time magazine cover story that labelled Bannon the "second most powerful man in the world."
Wolff, meanwhile, predicted in an interview Friday that his book would spell the end of the Trump presidency.
"I think one of the interesting effects of the book so far is a very clear emperor-has-no-clothes effect," Wolff said in a BBC interview broadcast Saturday.
"The story that I have told seems to present this presidency in such a way that it says he can't do his job," Wolff said. 6park.com