Journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser are releasing their bombshell new tell-all book, The Divider, described as “The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale.” As such, the co-authors (and spouses) have been on a promotion tour and made an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning — where the pair hilariously aired out all the dirty laundry they learned from Trump insiders, regarding the now ex-president’s profound ignorance and stupidity in pretty much every conceivable topic that a president should bear knowledge on, including world affairs and even literal basic geography.
During their interview this morning with MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire, Baker and Glasser were questioned about Trump’s notorious issues when it came to interacting with his fellow world leaders, which ultimately led to an anecdote from the authors about the time Donald Trump allegedly tried to give away West Bank.
“There is so much about his meetings with Putin in Helsinki, his efforts to walk out of NATO,” the network host said in the segment. “This headline, which took my breath away when I read it over the weekend, that he nearly gave away the West Bank — tell us how that could have happened.”
Baker responded, “We decided to do this book after he left office because there was more to learn. One was the great anecdote where apparently Trump calls up [former Treasury Secretary] Steve Mnuchin at the Davos conference when he’s meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan and put him on the phone, and said, ‘Hey king, I’ve got a great deal for you, I’m going to give you the West Bank.’ And anybody who understands Jordan where the Palestinian population is sort of a restive force in politics there and understands that was not anything King Abdullah wanted.”
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“He told an American friend, ‘I nearly had a heart attack, I doubled over, I couldn’t breathe,'” the author and journalist went on to add. “It went to where Donald Trump’s view of the world is very superficial and transactional — and he is simply going to give the king something the king has no interest in having.”
“It explains a lot about his foreign policy, which was very, very much built on the basis of someone who didn’t spend a single day in office prior to becoming president and he had a lot to learn,” Baker went on to further explain. “He didn’t know the difference between the Baltics and Balkans. One aide was saying he knew nothing about so many things, it was startling to them even after they spent time in his presence.”
We really lived through four long, hard years of Donald Trump’s “governmenting” while knowing absolutely nothing about the government. Or anything else, apparently.
Watch the MSNBC clip here:
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