A tell-all book penned by renowned Watergate journalist Bob Woodward has made explosive new claims about President Donald Trump.

'Fear: Trump in the White House' tells of a chaotic administration having a "nervous breakdown of executive power".

The book, which is reportedly based on hundreds of hours of interviews with important players in the Trump administration, claims that many of the former reality TV star's staff attempted to deliberately protect the US from its president by ignoring his orders.

It also sees Trump naming his attempts to repair the damage made by his Charlotteville "blame on both sides" comment as the "biggest f**king mistake I've made".

The president has sent out a series of tweets denying the allegations in the book calling many of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's claims "made up frauds, a con on the public".

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In excerpts of Woodward's new work, Chief of Staff John Kelly is quoted doubting Trump's mental wellness, saying in a staff meeting: "He's an idiot. It's pointless to try to convince him of anything. He's gone off the rails. We're in crazytown. I don't even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I've ever had."

The acclaimed journalist offers an insight into the former businessman's anger over his advisor's efforts to clean up his comment that there was "blame on both sides" in the August 2017 Charlotteville white nationalist rally.

Then-White House staff secretary Rob Porter allegedly convinced the president to clarify his remarks, leading him to denounce racism, the "KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups" in a televised speech.

However, Trump was reportedly livid in the aftermath of his speech, exploding at reports that it was "almost an admission of 'Okay, I was wrong'" and telling Porter: "That was the biggest f**king mistake I've made. You never make those concessions. You never apologize. I didn't do anything wrong in the first place. Why look weak?" One day later, he reasserted his original sentiment that "both sides" were to blame for the violence at a Trump Towel event.

Woodward's account of events also tells readers how the Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis told "‘close associates that the president acted like and had the understanding of ‘a fifth- or sixth-grader.'"

Mattis also allegedly told staff to ignore Trump's orders after the president expressed a desire to kill Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad in the wake of a chemical weapons attack in April 2017, saying: "Let’s fucking kill him!" Woodward quoted Mattis as telling staff afterwards: "We’re not going to do any of that. We’re going to be much more measured."

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The book quotes Trump himself accusing his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, of being "mentally retarded", stating: "He’s this dumb southerner [who] couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama."

At another point in the tell-all book, Trump's former lawyer, John Dowd, is also quoted as telling the president to avoid interviews with Robert Mueller, because he'd surely indict himself. "Don’t testify. It’s either that or an orange jumpsuit," he allegedly told the president.

President Trump took to Twitter after excerpts of the book were released, slamming its credibility as well as publishing statements from key administration staff denying the claims in the book.

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America's leader also claimed that Woodward was working for the Democratic party and that publication of the book was timed to damage the Republicans in the midterm elections in November.

White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, dismissed Woodward's work as "nothing more than fabricated stories, many by former disgruntled employees".

"While it is not always pretty, and rare that the press actually covers it, president Trump has broken through the bureaucratic process to deliver unprecedented successes for the American people," she wrote. "Sometimes it is unconventional, but he always gets results. Democrats and their allies in the media understand the president’s policies are working and with success like this, no one can beat him in 2020 – not even close."

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Bob Woodward has worked for the Washington Post since 1971 and remains an associate editor. He is famous for breaking the Watergate scandal along with Carl Bernstein, prompting the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.

1. Ivanka has hopes to be president

Trump's daughter and her husband Jared Kushner apparently struck a deal where she would run for president in the future. Wolff wrote:

"Balancing risk against reward, both Jared and Ivanka decided to accept roles in the West Wing over the advice of almost everyone they knew. It was a joint decision by the couple, and, in some sense, a joint job. Between themselves, the two had made an earnest deal: If sometime in the future the opportunity arose, she'd be the one to run for president"

2. Trump hated his own inauguration

Given the arguments about the size of the crowd following the event, it's not surprising that Trump had some bad feeling on the day. Wolff wrote:

"Trump did not enjoy his own inauguration. He was angry that A-level stars had snubbed the event, disgruntled with the accommodations at Blair House, and visibly fighting with his wife, who seemed on the verge of tears. Throughout the day, he wore what some around him had taken to calling his golf face: angry and pissed off, shoulders hunched, arms swinging, brow furled, lips pursed."

3. Steve Bannon thought Donald Jr's Russia meeting was 'treasonous'

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon commented on the June 2016 meeting, in which the Russians had offered Donald Trump Jr damaging information on Hillary Clinton. He told Wolff:

"The three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the 25th floor - with no lawyers. They didn't have any lawyers. Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad s***, and I happen to think it's all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately"

On top of all of this, he doesn't have high hopes for how Trump Jr will come out of all of this, saying that "They're going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV".

4. And thinks that Trump was present in the meeting

According to Wolff, Steve Bannon said that "The chance that Don Jr did not walk these jumos up to his father’s office on the twenty-sixth floor is zero".

5. Trump admires Rupert Murdoch

Trump supposedly holds Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, in high regard. He told his guests that he was "one of the greats, the last of the greats" and was desperate for his approval.

6. Yet Murdoch thinks he's an 'idiot'

However, Wolff, who has previously written a biography of Murdoch, described a call between Trump and the media mogul. After a meeting with Silicon Valley executives, Trump told Murdoch that he wanted to help them, to which Murdoch told him "they don't need your help".

When the conversation turned to Trump's immigration policy, Murdoch told him that his promises to build a wall and close the borders would be difficult to enact. Trump simply said, "We'll figure it out". After the call, reportedly, Murdoch said: "What a f***ing idiot".

7. Ivanka mocked her dad's comb-over

In what will likely be the most aggravating for the president to read, Wolff described how Ivanka spoke of her father within the White House, before detailing exactly how Trump creates that hairdo:

"She treated her father with a degree of detachment, even irony, going so far as to make fun of his comb-over to others. She often described the mechanics behind it to friends: an absolutely clean pate - a contained island after scalp-reduction -surgery - surrounded by a furry circle of hair around the sides and front, from which all ends are drawn up to meet in the center and then swept back and secured by a stiffening spray.

"The color, she would point out to comical effect, was from a product called Just for Men - the longer it was left on, the darker it got. Impatience resulted in Trump's orange-blond hair color."

8. Trump found the White House 'scary'

Trump, no doubt used to living by his own rules, found his move a little "vexing", according to Wolff:

"Trump, in fact, found the White House to be vexing and even a little scary. He retreated to his own bedroom - the first time since the Kennedy White House that a presidential couple had maintained separate rooms. In the first days, he ordered two television screens in addition to the one already there, and a lock on the door, precipitating a brief standoff with the Secret Service, who insisted they have access to the room."

9. The administration was uncertain of priorities

The White House deputy chief of staff, Katie Walsh, asked the president's senior advisor what the administration wanted to achieve, but reportedly he still wasn't sure after six weeks in office:

"'Just give me the three things the president wants to focus on,' she [Katie Walsh] demanded. 'What are the three priorities of this White House?' It was the most basic question imaginable - one that any qualified presidential candidate would have answered long before he took up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Six weeks into Trump's presidency, Kushner was wholly without an answer. 'Yes,' he said to Walsh. 'We should probably have that conversation.'"

10. Flynn knew that ties to Russia were 'a problem'

Former US National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who has now been indicted in the Justice Department special counsel's inquiry, said that he knew his acceptance of money from Moscow for a speech would have consequences. Wolff posits that Flynn "had been told by friends that it had not been a good idea to take $45,000 from the Russians for a speech. 'Well it would only be a problem if we won,' he assured them."

11. Trump was 'befuddled' by his victory

Wolff described that when they realized that Trump was on his way to victory, Don Jr explained that his father "looked as if he had seen a ghost":

"Melania was in tears - and not of joy. There was, in the space of little more than an hour, in Steve Bannon's not unamused observation, a befuddled Trump morphing into a disbelieving Trump and then into a horrified Trump. But still to come was the final transformation: Suddenly, Donald Trump became a man who believed that he deserved to be, and was wholly capable of being, the president of the United States."

One of Donald Trump’s many biographers has made a startling claim about the President's alleged sex life with his wife, Melania Trump.

Somewhat surprisingly, author Michael Wolff alleges that the octogenarian POTUS has not had sex in years and does not even share a bedroom with his wife.

During the latest episode of the Inside Trump's Head podcast, Wolff revealed that despite being one of the most powerful people in the world, the 47th US president, who has been accused of sexual misconduct 28 times since 1970, is regarded as “post-sexual”.

The author has claimed Melania does not sleep with her husband, who is 24 years her senior. Credit: Joe Raedle / Getty

Explaining Trump’s rather solitary lifestyle, the author claimed: "He is in this White House... this totally alone figure without any kind of... basic warmth.

"Even the people who are... the familiar faces are familiar only on a professional basis."

Things were different the first time around

Reportedly, things were slightly different during his first administration, as “he had Hope Hicks, who really tended to him. And now he has this woman, Natalie Harp," Wolff claims.

Hicks was Trump’s glamorous long-term aide, working as both White House Communications Director and as a counselor to the president during his first administration.

However, in a move that shocked the president, she testified for the prosecution against Trump during his hush money criminal trial in 2024, testifying that he wanted his alleged affairs with adult actress Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal covered up.

Experts claim the marriage is purely ceremonial. Credit: Kevin Dietsch / Getty

Since the trial, Trump allegedly "functions essentially... like an old-time monarch, you know. Who has... married someone for political reasons... as was done. And there was really no pretense of a... domestic life, and then he's tended to by factotums," according to Wolff.

The President and First Lady do not even share a bedroom

According to the author, First Lady Melania Trump, who is 24 years her husband’s junior, apparently resides in a separate bedroom.

Supporting this sentiment, Wolff’s co-host on the podcast, Joanna Coles, claimed: “Melania makes clear in her movie, which is about the 20 days and the run up to the inauguration: when you get to the inauguration, the one evening you think that a newly inaugurated president might want to have sex with his wife, she makes it very clear that they're going in completely separate directions at the end of the evening."

Allegedly, the couple sleeps in entirely separate sections of the White House, with Trump sleeping in the President's Bedroom on the second floor, while Melania occupies a separate private suite on the third floor.

Wolff also claimed: "Natalie Harp, you know, has become - as Hope Hicks was - this kind of curious person in his life. We don't really understand that relationship.

"She appears to be hopelessly in love with him, and we've seen a series of... cringeworthy letters that she has written him."

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Donald Trump may be renowned for many things, but his writing skills aren't one of them. The tweet-a-minute president has made countless errors in his social media interactions before, and - at this rate - is more likely to go down in history for his inexplicable "covfefe" post than he will for achieving any kind of significant diplomatic progress.

But it seems that he's very much in denial of this (which we should have known from his "I have the best words" claim last year), and yesterday tweeted about how excellent he is at writing:

"After having written many best selling books, and somewhat priding myself on my ability to write, it should be noted that the Fake News constantly likes to pour over my tweets looking for a mistake. I capitalize certain words only for emphasis, not b/c they should be capitalized!"

Unfortunately, the tweet proved the exact opposite of what he was trying to say, as one person's corrections make clear:

The former businessman quickly tried to cover up his one most glaring error - the misspelling of "pore" - by deleting the original tweet and reposting with the correct spelling, but the damage was done. Hundreds of people had already called him out on the error, including none other than an actual bestselling author, JK Rowling.

In a series of four tweets, the Harry Potter writer demonstrated exactly how she felt about someone with Trump's track record of spelling errors describing himself as a great wordsmith:

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"Seriously, @realDonaldTrump is the Gratest Writer on earth," she concluded in a deliberately error-laden post.

She also pointed out that the so-called "best selling" book Trump is referring to - The Art of the Deal - was actually ghostwritten, and the book's real author, Tony Schwartz, has given interviews about how he felt guilty for concealing his identity for so long.

"I put lipstick on a pig," he said in an interview with the New Yorker. "I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is ... I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization."

But Schwartz and Rowling haven't been the only people to publicly roast Trump over his writing abilities (or lack thereof). Yesterday, even the Merriam-Webster dictionary had some shade to dish out.

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For now, Trump can continue deleting tweets and convincing himself that he is some sort of "stable genius", but the evidence points to the contrary. He has consistently proven that he cannot write, cannot communicate, and, most worryingly, cannot govern.

Fortunately, Trump's tweets are considered presidential records, and the National Archives has requested that the White House keep note of deleted or altered tweets - meaning that, no matter how hard he tries to cover his tracks - his mistakes will always be on record somewhere.

So, if JK Rowling ever wants to investigate the litany of errors in the backlog of the president's social media interactions at any point, official records should give her plenty of material to "pour" over.

Donald Trump has teased that he's working on a new writing project... and claims he's already turned down two deals.

The former POTUS, 75, described his new venture as "the book of all books," but remained tight-lipped on what exactly the world can expect.

Per Independent, in a statement issued to the media, Trump claimed he had recently turned down two potential book deals from "the most unlikely of publishers".

He said: "I do not want to do such a deal right now. I’m writing like crazy anyway, however, and when the time comes, you’ll see the book of all books. Actually, I’ve been working on a much more important project right now."

It won't be the first time Trump had his name on a published book. His name has already been attributed to several books - including the 1987 book Trump: The Art of the Deal.

The book became an instant a bestseller ghostwritten by journalist Tony Schwarz, which reached the top of the New York Times’ list after its release.

News of Trump's new venture was met with mixed responses on social media, as people didn't hold back sharing what they expect the book to be.

One critic wrote: "Is this Comic Sans?"

While another added: "Trump is writing the 'book of all books?' When I heard about all of his writing, I had some operatives get a copy of the first chapter. Here it is for your reading pleasure," alongside a snap of a children's doodle.

A third wrote: "He always appears to be barely literate, might require an exceptional editor."

A final critic wrote: "I’m told he turned them down because the editors refused to include a set of crayons with the books like he asked."

But others welcomed news of a potential Trump book with open arms, taking to Twitter to share their excitement over the project.

"I cannot wait until this is all over and President Trump writes his book," wrote one.

Another added: "President Trump turned down two book deals, but he’s been writing a lot. When the time come, he will write a book of all books! [sic]"

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