- Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House’ has enraged Trump
- Claims the president is a ‘charlatan, a fool, an idiot’ who is ‘deeply unpredictable’
- He also said he could not say whether the president is ‘clinically off his rocker’
Michael Wolff (pictured), whose ‘Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House’ has prompted a furious response from the commander-in-chief, also said his book ‘got to a truth no else had gotten to’ about the ‘fool’ in the White House
The author of what Donald Trump has called a ‘Fake Book’ about his presidency has claimed everyone around the American leader thinks he is a ‘charlatan’ and an ‘idiot’.
Michael Wolff, whose ‘Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House’ has prompted a furious response from the commander-in-chief, also said his book ‘got to a truth no else had gotten to’ about the ‘fool’ in the White House.
He said that – despite around three hours of conversations with President Trump – he is not sure if the president is ‘clinically off his rocker’.
The interview with The Guardian comes just after the president took to Twitter to blast Wolff as ‘mentally deranged’.
Trump tweeted about Wolff’s CNN appearance on Saturday: ‘So much Fake News is being reported. They don’t even try to get it right, or correct it when they are wrong. They promote the Fake Book of a mentally deranged author, who knowingly writes false information.’
But Wolff is unfazed, stressing that his book has become an ‘international political event’.
He explained: ‘I got to a truth that no one else had gotten to.
‘Everyone around Trump thinks he’s a charlatan, a fool, an idiot and someone ultimately not capable of functioning in this job.’
He also said the president is ‘deeply unpredictable, irrational, at times bordering on incoherent, [and] self-obsessed in a disconcerting way.’
Wolff, who according to Bloomberg News could earn $7.4million from his bestselling book, said President Trump ‘wants somebody else to do his work’.
‘Everyone around Trump thinks he’s a charlatan, a fool, an idiot and someone ultimately not capable of functioning in this job,’ Wolff said
Wolff, who could stand to earn $7.4million from his bestselling book (pictured), said President Trump ‘wants somebody else to do his work’
He added: ‘I’ve talked to a number of Donald Trump friends and cronies. He ran on the idea of “I’m a negotiator” but they all say he’s never negotiated anything. Negotiation requires detailed understanding. It’s methodical. He can’t do it.’
Wolff also appeared to taunt Trump in the interview, explaining that the president’s attempt to block his book’s publication only succeeded in drawing more attention to his work.
‘He just shoots himself in the foot at every opportunity,’ he added.