A new book by a New York Times writer claims that 45th President Donald Trump considered ripping his shirt off to show a Superman shirt after beating COVID-19 and returning to the White House.
Trump, the book claims, was inspired by James Brown tossing a cape into the crowd, and asked his campaign staff two buy two shirts – one for him, and one for then-First Lady Melania Trump – for a big reveal.
According to coverage of the book published by Axios:
“[H]e would be wheeled out of Walter Reed in a chair and, once outdoors, he would dramatically stand up, then open his button-down dress shirt to reveal [a] Superman logo beneath it. (Trump was so serious about it that he called the campaign headquarters to instruct an aide, Max Miller, to procure the Superman shirts; Miller was sent to a Virginia big-box store.)”
Through the same book, Haberman and Axios are also responsible for publishing images they claim show hand written documents Trump attempted to flush down a toilet in the White House on the same day the FBI raided his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago.
NEW IN AXIOS: Trump denied flushing documents as president, as I learned during reporting last year for CONFIDENCE MAN. A Trump White House source recently provided PHOTOS of paper with Trump’s handwriting in two different toilets via @mikeallen https://t.co/wv6rrupO1n
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 8, 2022
Trump spent three days at Walter Reed after he and Melania tested positive for the virus in October of 2020.
While he and Melania did not offer the Superman reveal that Haberman claims the former president heavily considered, Trump did ascend to a high balcony in the White House and triumphantly remove his face mask in a move memorialized on video.
Even as Haberman prepares for the release of her Trump book, she and her colleagues continue to report about the 45th President.
In August, Haberman even suggested that Trump’s trouble with the FBI, Department of Justice, and National Archives may all be the fault of Mark Meadows, Trump’s former Chief of Staff who seems to have parted ways with his former boss.
Haberman and her sources reported that Meadows failed to “organize an effort to collect, box and deliver materials to the National Archives” amid Trump’s settling of “political grievances and personal grudges” during the final weeks of his administration.
This lack of organization, according to this version of events, led to some classified documents being removed unintentionally.
