Joe Biden was furious when he came across little 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 would not shy away from criticizing Trump for more than his policies.
Whipple writes that Biden would take special guests on a tour of the White House and would get nervous when he stumbled upon items left by the former president.
“What the hell the hell,” Biden said, showing the device to a guest,” Whipple writes, according to the book, available to the New York Post.
Several administration officials went on to record with Whipple for the book, which will be released on January 17th.
A new book revealed Joe Biden was furious when he came across Donald Trump mementos including a $50,000 golf simulator at the White House
Chris Whipple’s book, The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House, features stories from inside the walls of the administration insider’s estate
Trump reportedly installed the 2019 golf stimulator just before he was ousted 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 if he didn’t make it to the course in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
According to the Washington Post, Trump likely played 261 rounds of golf during his presidency — outside of the White House.
Golf remains one of the former president’s favorite hobbies after sources brutally claimed in a New York Magazine article that Trump mostly keeps to himself, leaving Mar-a-Lago, Fla., only 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 likely never used the stimulator, as Whipple also revealed the president’s reluctance to use anything Trump contributed to the White House.
The 47th President requested that the historic Resolute Desk, a gift from Queen Victoria, be removed from the Oval Office and replaced with another used by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Though Biden’s request was never granted, it appears he’s stuck with the desk, made up of parts from a British warship, that has been in the Oval Office for some 40 years.
The news outlet also reported that Biden feared the White House Secret Service was loyal to Trump.
Trump reportedly installed the 2019 golf stimulator just before he was ousted from office and paid for it himself
Whipple’s book also looks at Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and his analysis of the aftermath.
Knowing he would be slammed by the press for withdrawing US forces from Afghanistan, Biden fell into a “deep, misunderstood sadness” after meeting Gold Star families at Dover Air Force Base.
“I’m screwed no matter what I say,” Biden told a pal, according to Whipple.
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki went on record with Whipple to discuss the withdrawal and the 13 US soldiers killed in a terrorist attack outside Kabul airport.
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’re rotting in hell.”
Psaki told the author that “for the next few days” Biden “felt only a deep, misunderstood sadness.”
Whipple also revealed details of Biden’s withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan
While visiting the 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 burn pits used by the military in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
He also often speaks about the deaths of his first wife and young daughter in a car accident around Christmas time to connect with Americans over shared grief.
However, Biden’s speech from Beau in Dover did not go down well with families.
“Part of the criticism related to him praising his son,” Psaki recalled. “And for him and for a lot of the people he’s helped through grief, that was something that helped. It’s deeply personal.”
A friend of the President told Whipple that the suicide bombing in Kabul was “just a whole different thing.”
Afterward, Biden said to a senior White House aide, “That’s what it’s like to be president,” Whipple wrote.