It was easy for White House aides to avoid interacting with former President Donald Trump because, throughout his entire term, he never climbed the stairs to get to the second floor, according to a new book written by journalist Michael Wolff.
Wolff writes about two worlds within the West Wing. One world was within “shouting distance of the Oval Office,” allowing for employees to clearly make out Trump’s tangents, rants, and monologues. The other world, offices belonging to senior aides, existed at the top of a flight of steps the president avoided.
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“Early in Trump’s presidency, aides noted that a second-floor office, where the likes of Stephen Miller and Kellyanne Conway worked, meant a degree of exclusion but also protection: Trump would never climb the stairs (and, by the end of his term, he never had),” the book’s excerpt reads.
White House staffers like Conway knew after moving into their upstairs offices that it was unlikely Trump would ever visit them. “The confidant dismissively predicted that Trump would rarely climb a flight of stairs," the Washington Post reported in January 2017.
Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency hits bookstore shelves on July 27.
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