Former President Trump felt “hurt” by Kim Kardashian’s endorsement of President Biden in 2020, the author of a new book about the former president said in an interview on Wednesday.
Ramin Setoodeh, author of “The Apprentice in Wonderland,” a book about Trump’s time as a reality TV star, said Trump “absolutely” felt betrayed by Kardashian, who helped pass the First Step Act, which aimed to reform the federal prison system and sentencing.
“I think Trump was hurt that he invited Kim Kardashian to the White House and then, after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, Kardashian posted three heart emojis on social media in support of a Biden-Harris administration,” Setoodeh told CNN’s Erin Burnett, when asked if Trump felt betrayed by Kardashian.
“As soon as he left the White House, he was obsessed with it,” he added in his remarks. Mediaite highlights.
Setoodeh’s comments came after Burnett played a recording of one of several interviews the author conducted with Trump for the book.
“I was disappointed in Kim … Together with Kim, she got a lot of prison reform done that nobody else could,” Trump said in the recording played on “Erin Burnett Outfront.”
“I released people from prison that I thought deserved to be released,” he added in the video. “And then after it was all over, she announced that she wasn’t supporting me… and she only did it to look cool in Hollywood.”
“The Apprentice in Wonderland” release It was released this month and is described on the website as “the untold, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump and The Apprentice, the long-running reality show that put him in the White House.”
Setoodeh, co-editor in chief and entertainment reporter at Variety magazine, said he was able to interview Trump for several hours and had “unprecedented access” for the book.
President Trump’s communications director, Stephen Chang, did not respond specifically to the Kardashians’ comments but harshly criticized the author’s book in an emailed statement to The Hill.
“Recognizing the importance of ‘The Apprentice,’ its massive cultural impact on a global scale, and President Trump’s incredible role in forever changing the entertainment landscape, this ‘writer’ has now chosen to let his brain rot with Trump Derangement Syndrome, like so many other losers whose lives revolve around President Trump,” Chang wrote.
