Wednesday 28 September 2022 03:35 PM Trump said he swapped toilet Oval Office 'secret bathroom' after Obama; guest ... trends now
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Former President Donald Trump would tell certain White House guests that he had a personal 'secret bathroom' just off the Oval Office renovated after succeeding Barack Obama – using language one guest took to have racist subtext.
The claim, which was based on how the visitor took the odd comment, is included in New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman's new book on Trump, Confidence man.
The book, which is out Tuesday, includes an account of the strange comment about the bathroom just off the Oval Office, which Trump would sometimes refer to as the 'Monica room,' after former President Bill Clinton's trysts with a White House intern – bringing his twin obsessions with Obama and Clinton into the same cramped space.
'When Trump showed visitors his workplace, he invited some to peer into what he periodically described as his "secret bathroom," which he occasionally presented with the claim he had renovated the entire space down to the toilet,' Haberman writes.
Former President Donald Trump would tell guests about his 'secret bathroom' off the Oval Office, and claimed he had it renovated after President Barack Obama left, according to 'Confidence Man' by Maggie Haberman. 'You understand what I'm talking about?' he told a visitor, who took the comment to mean he 'did not want to use the same bathroom as his black predecessor,' according to
