During her nine month stint as White House Press Secretary, she never held a press briefing. She made few media appearances, with the bulk of her interviews occuring on the friendly confines of Fox News. But now, with a book coming on the market, Stephanie Grisham says, “I should have spoken up more.”
According to the New York Times, Grisham now laments not speaking out about the harassment her boss, Donald Trump, submitted his staff to, including sexual comments about a young female member on Grisham’s communications staff whom Trump demanded be present whenever he made public statements at the White House. He liked looking at her rear end, and frequently would call her to his cabin on Air Force One just to ogle her.
After porn star Stormy Daniels described Trump’s penis as short and mushroom-shaped, Trump called Grisham to defend the size of his organ. “Uh, yes sir,” Grisham claimed she replied. Grisham also describes a specific White House staffer–her ex-boyfriend who is unnamed in the book but known to be current Republican House candidate Max Miller–whose job it was to play songs from musicals to calm Trump; Trump referred to him as “The Music Man.”
Undoubtedly attempting to erase her complicity in promoting Trump’s disastrous administration, Grisham’s book is the latest from Trump administration members whose hindsight is 20-20. Grisham recounts a story on how Trump instructed her to deal with unfavorable news.
“‘You just deny it,’” Trump told Grisham. ‘That’s what you do in every situation. Right, Stephanie? You just deny it,’ he repeated, emphasizing the words.”
Grisham also claims that Trump attempted to close the White House Press Room while he was on an extended photo op to North Korea. “I researched different places we could put them other than the press briefing room. Each time the president asked me about my progress on the matter, I let him know I was still working on options,” Grisham writes, saying Trump was terrifying when he was angered. “When I began to see how his temper wasn’t just for shock value or the cameras,” she writes, “I began to regret my decision to go to the West Wing.”