White House staff allegedly refers to the president's daughter Ivanka as his 'real wife,' as Communications Director Hope Hicks has been calls his 'real daughter'
That's because Melania Trump keeps a low profile, while Hicks and Ivanka Trump continue to play outsized roles in the West Wing, a new book reported
As President Trump has seen a string of resignations through his first year in office, Hicks has become his 'most powerful White House advisor'
The forthcoming book, 'Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House' also suggests that the president can't say no to his kids
That's how Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner were able to become top White House aides, against the advice of political veterans
With Melania Trump often keeping a low profile, White House staffers refer to first daughter Ivanka Trump as her father's 'real wife' and Communications Director Hope Hicks as the president's 'real daughter,' a new book alleged.
Author Michael Wolff, who wrote the forthcoming 'Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House' revealed these designations in the context of who is now closest to Trump, with many high-level aides leaving within the president's first year.
That distinction goes to Hicks, the president's 29-year-old former campaign press secretary who Wolff said is now Trump's 'most powerful White House advisor.'
White House staffers told author Michael Wolff that Communications Director Hope Hicks (left) plays the role of President Trump's 'real daughter,' while his daughter Ivanka Trump (right) plays the role of the president's 'real wife'
'Hicks' primary function was to tend to the Trump ego, to reassure him, to protect him, to buffer him, to soothe him,' Wolff wrote in a story about the writing of his book, published Thursday by the Hollywood Reporter.
'It was Hicks who, attentive to his lapses and repetitions, urged him to forgo an interview that was set to open the 60 Minutes fall season,' the author continued. 'Instead, the interview went to Fox News' Sean Hannity who, White House insiders happily explained, was willing to supply the questions beforehand.'
In a preview of the book published Thursday in the Hollywood Reporter, Wolff also explained how Trump couldn't say no to his kids, casting this characteristic as 'foolishness.'
'It's a littleee, littleee complicated,' the president reportedly told his first Chief of Staff Reince Priebus when explaining why he wanted to give Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner official White House jobs.
They're now serving as senior advisers in the West Wing.
However, Wolff did not describe their tenure as a happy one.
'By July, Jared and Ivanka, who had, in less than six months, traversed from socialite couple to royal family to the most powerful people in the world, were now engaged in a desperate dance to save themselves, which mostly involved blaming Trump himself,' Wolff wrote Thursday in the Hollywood Reporter.
Author Michael Wolff alleges that White House staffers believe Hope Hicks plays the role of Trump's daughter and Ivanka Trump plays the role of his 'wife'
'It was all his idea to fire Comey!' the couple nicknamed 'Javanka' reportedly said, referring to Trump's ouster of the former FBI director that prompted the appointment of a special counsel.
Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, who Trump blames for the bulk of the book, as he was one of Wolff's most prominent sources, reportedly told people that 'The daughter ... will bring down the father.'
20 MOST JAW-DROPPING CLAIMS IN EXPLOSIVE TRUMP BOOK
- Steve Bannon described Don Jr's Trump Tower meeting with Russians as 'treasonous and unpatriotic' and thinks he will 'crack like an egg' under the pressure of the Russia investigation
- Bannon said there's 'zero' chance Donald Trump didn't know about the meeting and said Don Jr likely 'walked them to his father's office'
- First Lady Melania Trump openly wept on the night her husband won the election - and the tears 'were not of joy'
- The whole campaign from the top down thought Trump would lose and everyone had planned for defeat, with Trump himself planning a TV network because he would be 'the most famous man in the world'
- Trump and Melania sleep in separate bedrooms and he demanded a lock on his bedroom door against the wishes of the Secret Service
- Trump orders McDonald's so he's not poisoned, told staff not to touch his toothbrush and strips his own bedsheets
- Trump regularly sits in bed eating a cheeseburger at 6.30pm while calling his friends and watching three TVs
- Rupert Murdoch called Trump a 'f***ing idiot' after a phone call and billionaire backer Tom Barrack said 'he's not only crazy, he's stupid'
- Trump's aides say he doesn't read and 'for all practical purposes is no more than semi-literate'
- Trump would try to bed his friends' wives by goading their husbands to cheat while the wife listened in on speakerphone
- White House Communications Director Hope Hicks dated married Corey Lewandowski and Trump later told her: 'You're the best piece of tail he'll ever have.'
- The president called acting attorney general Sally Yates a 'c***' after she refused to enforce his immigration ban
- Sean Spicer, then press secretary, said 'you can't make this s*** up' after his first briefing and went on adopt the phrase as his personal mantra
- Trump tells the same stories three times in ten minutes and forgot a succession of old friends' names at a Mar-a-Lago party
- He called Jared Kushner a 'suck-up' and said he should never have let Ivanka and her husband move to Washington
- Among his verdicts on his staff: Bannon 'looked like s***', Reince Priebus was a midget and Kellyanne Conway was a crybaby
- Among his staff's verdicts on him: 'dope', 'dumb as s***', 'hopeless idiot', 'just a f***ing fool', 'lost his mind', 'incapable of functioning in his job'
- Trump wondered what a 'golden shower' was after reading reports about the notorious Russian dossier
- Trump offered to marry Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough - and mocked Jared Kushner for saying he'd do it
- Ivanka Trump jokes with friends about her father's hair secrets: He had a scalp reduction, combs over from the sides, and uses Just for Men badly
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