Book dishes on what Donald Trump said of Ron DeSantis: ‘fat’, ‘phoney’, ‘whiny’
- Donald Trump slammed Ron DeSantis in private, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman wrote in her new book.
- Citing sources, Haberman wrote that ex-president Trump had called the Florida governor ‘fat’ and ‘whiny’
Former US president Donald Trump has been making rude comments in private about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former New Jersey govenor Chris Christie, according to a new book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman.
In an excerpt from Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, published by The Atlantic on Sunday, Haberman detailed a meeting she had in the summer with Trump at the latter’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
During the meeting, she spoke with Trump about Christie, one of his 2016 election rivals.
“I was compared to him? Why? I didn’t know I had that big of a weight problem,” Trump told Haberman, per her account. He also called Christie an “opportunist”.
Haberman also wrote that she had heard of Trump using similar terms to describe DeSantis. She also recalled learning from sources that Trump had called DeSantis “fat”, “phoney”, and “whiny” while also taking credit for the latter clinching the governor’s seat in 2018.
Per the excerpt, Trump told Haberman that the question he most often received was whether he would be running for president again.
