Joe Biden got furious about reminders of Donald Trump in the White House
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Joe Biden was furious when he found small reminders of Donald Trump in the White House, including his $50,000 golf simulator and big-screen TV, according to a new book.
Chris Whipple’s upcoming book, The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House, revealed that the president would not hold back from criticizing Trump for more than just his policies.
Whipple writes that Biden would take special guests on a tour of the White House and become nervous when he stumbled upon items left behind by the former president.
‘”What the f****** a******,” Biden said, showing the contraption to a guest, Whipple writes, according to the book obtained by the New York Post.
Several administration officials spoke with Whipple about the book, which is set to be published on January 17.
A new book has revealed that Joe Biden was angry when he found reminders of Donald Trump in the White House, including a $50,000 golf simulator.
Chris Whipple’s book, The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House, features stories from inside the property’s walls from management experts.
Trump reportedly installed the golf stimulator in 2019 just before he was removed from office and paid for it himself.
It allowed him to play virtual rounds of golf at any course in the world by hitting a ball on a video screen when he couldn’t make it to the course in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
Trump probably played 261 rounds of golf, outside the White House, during his presidency, according to Washington Post.
Golf remains one of the former president’s favorite pastimes, after sources in a New York Magazine article brutally claimed that Trump mostly keeps to himself, only leaving Mar-a-Lago, Florida, to play golf at his club. in Doral.
The Trump White House simulator is said to have replaced an “older, less sophisticated golf simulator” that was in the White House during the Obama administration.
Biden likely never used the stimulator, as Whipple also revealed the president’s distaste for using anything Trump has contributed to the White House.
The 47th president requested that the historic Resolute Desk given to him by Queen Victoria be removed from the Oval Office and replaced with one used by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
While Biden’s request was never fulfilled, it appears as if he was stuck at the desk made from parts of a British warship that has been in the Oval Office for some 40 years.
The news outlet also reported that Biden feared that the White House secret service was a loyal supporter of Trump.
Trump reportedly installed the golf stimulator in 2019 just before he was removed from office and paid for it himself.
Whipple’s book also delves into Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and his analysis of the aftermath.
Biden knew he would be criticized by the press for withdrawing US forces from Afghanistan and fell into a “deep and misunderstood sadness” after meeting with Gold Star families at Dover Air Force Base.
“I’m screwed no matter what I say,” Biden told a friend, according to Whipple.
Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki has officially spoken with Whipple about the withdrawal and the 13 US service members killed outside the Kabul airport in a terror attack.
Psaki recalled Biden’s August 2021 trip to Dover Air Force Base, where the remains of service members were taken away.
The brother of one of the fallen soldiers yelled at Biden: ‘I hope you burn in hell.’
Psaki told the author that “for the next few days” Biden “felt a deep, misunderstood sadness.”
Whipple also revealed details of the withdrawal of Biden’s US forces from Afghanistan.
While visiting families in Dover, Biden spoke about the 2015 death of his own son, Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer after serving in Iraq.
The president has linked Beau’s death to the burning pits used by the military in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
He also often talks about the death of his first wife and daughter in a car accident at Christmas to bond with Americans over their shared grief.
However, Biden’s talk about Beau in Dover did not go down well with the families.
“Some of the criticism was about him praising his son,” Psaki recalled. ‘And for him, and for many people he helped through grief, that was something that helped. That is deeply personal.
A friend of the president told Whipple that the Kabul suicide bombing was “just something very different.”
“Afterwards, Biden told a senior White House adviser: ‘This is being president,'” Whipple wrote.