President Donald Trump on Sunday continued to express his dismay with a blockbuster new book that portrays a commander in chief who is mentally unstable.
"I’ve had to put up with the Fake News from the first day I announced that I would be running for President," Trump wrote on Twitter. "Now I have to put up with a Fake Book, written by a totally discredited author."
The White House pushed back on Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" throughout the past week as excerpts trickled out depicting behind-the-scenes details about the president and his staff. Some journalists have also pushed backed on Wolff, saying his past — along with factual errors in the book — require a very skeptical reading on his reporting and analysis.
Stephen Miller, the president's senior policy adviser, sparked a heated exchange with CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Sunday, as Miller repeatedly torched the book.
"The book is best understood as a work of very poorly written fiction. ... The author is a garbage author of a garbage book," Miller said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Trump later blasted Tapper, calling him a "CNN flunky."
"Jake Tapper of Fake News CNN just got destroyed in his interview with Stephen Miller of the Trump Administration," the president tweeted.
Tapper and Miller engaged in a fierce argument Sunday morning, swapping insults and accusations. When he returned from commercial after the interview, Tapper said: "Welcome back to the 'State of the Union' — and planet Earth."
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