The new book about Donald Trump’s second presidency, Regime Change, has been out for a few days, and there has been a daily drumbeat of negative headlines about revelations uncovered in Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s book.
Per The Daily Beast, Trump “has been privately melting down after his disgusting late-night eating habits were exposed in a new book.”
What were those habits? Trump “leaves huge amounts of trash in his bedroom because of all the snacks he eats.”
“A nighttime snacker, the president would frequently leave an array of empty potato chip bags, Starbucks wrappers, and ice cream cartons in the trash, or on the floor,” the book reports, per the Beast. “The staff had to begin monitoring the trash after it was discovered he was sometimes throwing out White House sterling silver utensils.”
The revelation that the 80-year-old leaves huge amounts of trash in his bedroom from the snacks he eats has reportedly left him “absolutely infuriated.”
https://t.co/CSlcH622wR— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 26, 2026
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Trump is said to be upset about this, to the point that he has tried to impose a “media blackout” on members of the press covering the new book, which has been a massive bestseller out of the gate.
Zeteo has reported more details about Trump’s bedroom habits.
“There’s something in the book that hasn’t gotten nearly the level of attention of the aforementioned scoops… and yet it’s something that, according to sources familiar with the matter, has privately and absolutely infuriated the president and helped contribute to his decision to impose an intra-administration blackout on publicly talking about the book,” Zeteo reported, in reference to the eating habits.
“It makes him look so fucking gross,” one senior Trump appointee told Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng. “The president sees everything, and he knows about the trash and bathroom sections, and thinks it’s complete bullshit that it got published.”
“At other points, he’s vented to some confidants that ‘I don’t do that!’—to which some of them have sat there and thought to themselves: Uh… yeah, you do.”
Also, per the Beast, Trump installed carpet in the White House bathrooms in his second term.
