In bed with a cheeseburger at 6:30pm, shouting at staff who pick shirts off the floor and watching THREE televisions as he rants on the phone about the unfair media: Inside Trump's life in the White House

• Trump and Steve Bannon used to be so close they'd have dinner nearly every evening, according to book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
• If the two former friends weren't dining at 6:30 pm, Trump would retire to the residence, where he allegedly ate cheeseburgers from bed
• Sometimes he would be watching three television screens while ranting about the media in phone calls to friends
• Author Michael Wolff claims that Trump added a lock to his bedroom door in the early days of the administration and screamed at housekeeping staff
• Trump unloaded on Bannon Wednesday, though, after the former White House strategist dissed his son and son-in-law in the book

President Donald Trump and former chief strategist Steve Bannon used to be so close they'd have dinner nearly every evening, an explosive new book about Trump's first year in office reveals.

If the two former friends weren't dining at 6:30 pm, Trump would retire to the residence, where he allegedly ate cheeseburgers from bed, sometimes watching three television screens while ranting about the media in phone calls to friends.

Author Michael Wolff claims that Trump added a lock to his bedroom door in the early days of the administration to the chagrin of Secret Service and screamed at housekeeping staff who tidied up after him.

Author Michael Wolff claims that President Donald Trump would retire to the residence to eat cheeseburgers from bed, sometimes watching three televisions as he ranted about the media in phone calls to friends

'If my shirt is on the floor, it’s because I want it on the floor,' Trump allegedly said.

Wolff writes in 'Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House' that Trump told staff not to touch anything - especially not his toothbrush - as he's notoriously afraid of being poisoned.

He would even strip his own bed and let housekeeping know when he wanted his sheets washed, Wolff says in a set of unsourced claims.

An excerpt of Wolff's book ran on Wednesday in New York Magazine as other tidbits began to leak elsewhere in news publications that obtained advance copies.  

Wolff writes that Trump was often the source of the embarrassing information that was later printed about him, complaining day and night on the phone to people he should not have trusted.

'He was a river of grievances, which recipients of his calls promptly spread to the ever-attentive media,' Wolff's excerpt says.

In one call, on Feb. 6, Trump complained about New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman - 'a nut job- columnist Gail Collins - 'a moron' - and CNN chief Jeff Zucker, who he said was 'made by Trump.'

Trump also complained about a Time magazine cover that branded Steve Bannon the shadow president.

'How much influence do you think Steve Bannon has over me?' Trump allegedly said. 'Zero! Zero!'

The president berated his son-in-law Jared Kushner in the same vein during the 26-minute call, the acquaintance of Trump supposedly told Wolff.

The excerpt also claims that Trump and his team had no intention of winning the election, and had run simply as a branding exercise before winning by accident.

On the day of the election Kellyanne Conway had spent the day calling reporters to blame Reince Priebus for the loss, hoping to land a job at one of their networks after the whole thing fell apart, Wolff writes.

For his own part, Trump was eyeing the idea of setting up a network of his own, and was shell-shocked when the results began going his way.

Wolff writes that Trump was often the source of the embarrassing information that was later printed about him, complaining day and night on the phone to people he should not have trusted. Trump is seen here on the phone early on his administration in the Oval Office


President Donald Trump and former chief strategist Steve Bannon used to be so close they'd have dinner nearly evening, an explosive new book about Trump's first year in office reveals. Trump unloaded on Bannon today, though, after the former White House strategist dissed his son and son-in-law 

'In the space of little more than an hour... a befuddled Trump morphed into a disbelieving Trump and then into a horrified Trump,' the book says.

'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.'

After an unenjoyable inauguration during which Trump complained about his accommodation and fought openly with a teary-eyed Melania, he arrived in the White House where Bannon claims to have taken charge.

In the chaos of the first few weeks, during which nobody's role in the administration had been defined, Bannon pushed through a series of executive orders to draw a line under the Obama era and mark the start of the new Trumpian era.

Chaos was in part Bannon's strategy, the book claims, in part down to the total inexperience of the team, and in part down to Trump's own impulsive behavior.

Amidst this turbulence, Bannon, Kushner and Priebus all vied for Trump's attention, each knowing that whoever spoke to him last wielded the greatest influence.

This sparked a daily war which was fueled by Trump's own unguarded comments about his senior staff during nightly phone calls with friends.  

The President used these calls speculate on the flaws and weaknesses of each lieutenant vying for his attention, in scathing and often personal remarks.

Chief strategist Steve Bannon was disloyal and always looked like s**t, chief of staff Reince Priebus was weak and too short - a midget - while press secretary Sean Spicer was an idiot who also dressed terribly.

Counselor Kellyanne Conway was derided as a crybaby and son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner was branded a suck-up who should never have come to Washington with wife Ivanka, the book claims Trump said.

After the excerpt ran, Trump issued an extraordinary statement bashing Bannon, who went on the record to Wolff. 

Trump's White House press secretary sent out a statement of her own that called the book 'trashy tabloid fiction' full of 'false and misleading accounts' after the president's longtime consigliere was quoted trashing Donald Trump Jr. and claiming his father would have immediately been made aware of an infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians.

Bannon claimed a Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer, supposedly to obtain unflattering information about Hillary Clinton, was 'treasonous' and 'unpatriotic,' prompting an unprecedented brushback of the former White House aide from the president.

'Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency,' Trump said in a statement provided by the White House that torches his former chief strategist. 'When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.'

Hours before sweeping to electoral victory Kellyanne Conway, then managing the Trump campaign, had confidently predicted defeat and was trying to line herself up an on-air job at a news network, it is claimed

Trump told friends over the phone that daughter Ivanka and husband Jared should never have come to Washington, while deriding him as a suck-up who 'has a lot to learn'

Trump's press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, then told reporters that the president was 'furious' and 'disgusted' by Bannon's assault on the president's son and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who also attended the Trump Tower meeting. 

The White House's full-scale attack on Bannon, who was once one of Trump's top advisers, was ripe with personal slights, exposing a dramatic rift between the president and the conservative provocateur who is also the Breitbart News executive chairman.

It followed Bannon's comments undercutting the president's eldest son and a suggestion that Donald Trump was involved in the 2016 meeting with a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer that Bannon is now quoted as saying should have been reported to the FBI.

'Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican Party,' Trump said. 'Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn't as easy as I make it look.'

Trump said Bannon 'doesn't represent my base, he's only in it for himself' and 'had very little to do' with his victory, but 'everything to do' with the loss of the Alabama Senate seat.

The cutting statement went on to say, 'Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was.'

Bannon backed losing candidate Roy Moore, who Trump ultimately campaigned for in the special election after claiming the Republican would have a tough time winning the general election and endorsing his primary opponent.

Sanders said Wednesday that the loss contributed to the falling out between the president, who last spoke to Bannon sometime in early December.

Accusing the president's son of treason is also not a way to 'curry favor' with Trump, she stated, calling the allegation 'ridiculous.'

'I think there are a number of factors that played in,' she told DailyMail.com. 'I would certainly think that going after the president's son and an absolutely outrageous and unprecedented way, is probably not the best way to curry favor with anybody.'