I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

by Stephanie Grisham

In the years ahead, foreign leaders such as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French president Emmanuel Macron would learn that all they had to do was call the president directly if they didn’t like the negotiations that had been done ahead of time by the advance teams. In order to ensure that the president would attend certain events, they’d make the requests personally, and President Trump would almost always agree. Every time that happened, it caused chaos for the operations, military, and Secret Service teams, but the president didn’t care about the packed schedule or the lack of assets such as cars and helicopters—until we got there. Then he would see all the stuff he had randomly agreed to and how complicated it was and complain that the schedule was “inhumane.”