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Joe Biden got furious about reminders of Donald Trump in the White House

Dec. 31, 2022
Joe Biden got furious about reminders of Donald Trump in the White House

Joe Biden was furious when he came across 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 forthcoming book, The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House, revealed that the president wouldn't hold back on critiquing Trump on more than just his policies.

Whipple writes that Biden would take special guests on a tour of the White House and would become flustered when he would stumble upon items left behind by the Former president.

'"What a 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 went on the record with Whipple for the book, which will be released on January 17. 

Trump reportedly installed the golf stimulator in 2019 right before he was ousted from office and paid for it himself.

It allowed him to play virtual rounds of golf on any course in the world by hitting a ball at a video screen when he couldn't make it to Mar-a-Lago, Florida course.

Trump likely played 261 rounds of golf - outside the White House - during his presidency, according to The Washington Post. 

Golf continues to be one of the former president's favorite hobbies, after sources in a New York Magazine article brutally claimed that Trump mostly keeps to himself, and only leaves Mar-a-Lago, Florida to play golf at his club in Doral. 

Trump's 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 has likely never used the stimulator, as Whipple also revealed the president's distaste at using anything Trump contributed to the White House.

The 47th president requested the historic Resolute Desk gifted from Queen Victoria to be removed from the Oval Office and replaced by another used by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

While Biden's request was never fulfilled, it appears as if he is stuck using the desk made from parts of a British Warship that has been in the Oval Office for about 40 years.

The news outlet also reported that Biden feared the White House secret service were loyal Trump supporters.

Whipple's book also digs into Biden's pull out from Afghanistan and his analysis of the consequences. 

Biden knew he was going to get pummeled by the press for withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan and fell into a 'deep, misunderstood sadness' after meeting with Gold Star families at Dover Air Force base. 

'I'm f***ed no matter what I say,' Biden remarked to a pal, according to Whipple. 

Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki went on the record with Whipple to discuss the withdrawal and the 13 U.S. service members killed outside Kabul's airport in a terror attack.

Psaki recalled Biden's August 2021 trip to Dover Air Force Base, where the remains of the service members were taken.

The brother of one of the fallen soldiers yelled at Biden: 'I hope you burn in hell.'

Psaki told the author that 'over the next couple of days' Biden 'just felt a deep, misunderstood sadness.'

While visiting with the families at Dover, Biden spoke about the 2015 death of his own son, Beau Biden, who passed away from brain cancer after serving in Iraq.

The president has linked Beau's death to the burn pits the military used in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

He also often speaks about the death of his first wife and baby daughter in a Christmastime car crash to bond with Americans over shared grief.

Biden's talk of Beau in Dover, however, didn't sit well with the families.

'Some of the criticism was about him praising his son,' Psaki recalled. 'And to him, and to a lot of people he's helped through grief, that had been something that helped. That's deeply personal.'

A friend of the president told Whipple that the Kabul suicide bombing was 'just a very different thing.'

'Afterward Biden told a senior White House aide: "This is what being president is,"' Whipple wrote.


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