He directed state functions planned parties, weddings and funerals, gardens and playgrounds, and extensive renovations and, with a large staff, supervised every activity in the presidential home. West, chief usher of the White House, directed the operations and maintenance of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue-and coordinated its daily life-at the request of the president and his family. on July 27.In this New York Times bestseller, the White House chief usher for nearly three decades offers a behind-the-scenes look at America's first families. 'Landslide' is scheduled to be published by Henry Holt & Co. and it was pouring at West Point.' He added, 'The last thing I want to do is go down because when Gerald Ford went down and it was not good.' 'I had an instance where on a slippery, slippery ramp, a piece of steel, very steep and very long railings.

'I know that if it were me, they would be up and down, going crazy,' Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity. Trump defended Biden against criticisms that he is too old, and compared Biden's plane stumble to when he struggled to walk down a ramp at West Point in June 2020.

In April, Trump lodged a rare defense of President Joe Biden after he took a tumble on the stairs of Air Force One while leaving Joint Base Andrews in March. 'Though Conway took over the workspace previously occupied by Valerie Jarrett, who had been Obama's closest adviser, the confidant dismissively predicted that Trump would rarely climb a flight of stairs,' The Post said at the time. The unlikelihood of Trump climbing those stairs was first reported by The Washington Post in January 2017, during the early days of the Trump administration. Read more: How Trump could use his relationship with Putin and Russia to skirt prosecution back in the USA Wolff wrote that working out of the second-floor office, as Trump advisors Kellyanne Conway and Stephen Miller opted to do, 'meant a degree of exclusion but also protection' because 'Trump would never climb the stairs (and, by the end of his term, he never had).'Īn excerpt of Wolff's book 'Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency' published in New York Magazine on Monday shed more light on the confusion among Trump and his hollowed-out circle of aides as the January 6 insurrection unfolded. Working on the second floor of the West Wing allowed aides to avoid dealing with President Donald Trump because he never walked up the stairs to get to the upper floor, a forthcoming book by author Michael Wolff said. See more stories on Insider's business page. The Washington Post first reported in 2017 that Trump was unlikely to climb those stairs. Working on the second floor 'meant a degree of exclusion but also protection,' Michael Wolff wrote. Trump never once walked up the stairs to the second floor of the West Wing offices, a new book said. President Donald Trump boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, in Maryland, on December 12, 2020.

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