Even after President Donald Trump scorched his latest book, author Michael Wolff remains hopeful that he’ll get another dinner invitation from the president in the future—after all, that’s happened before.
Trump blasted Wolff on Monday over All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America, a new book chronicling the president’s 2024 campaign. The 78-year-old president described it as “a total fake job.”
“He called me many times trying to set up a meeting, but I never called him back because I didn’t want to give him the credibility of an interview,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Others in the Administration were also called, they reported his calls, and likewise, did not talk to him. I assume, however, he was able to speak to a small number of people, but not meaningfully.”
Wolff brushed off Trump’s comments in a statement to the Daily Beast on Monday.
“Beyond President Trump’s classic dissing of my book, I appreciate his acknowledgement of my superb sourcing,” Wolff said. “The point of my book is that I foresaw either the establishment breaking him, or him breaking the establishment. Clearly, the latter happened.”
“So were President Trump to actually read my book, he might find satisfaction in the story,” he added. “And not impossibly, I will receive another dinner invitation from him in the future.”
The Daily Beast first reported the contents of Wolff’s latest book, which provided a behind-the-scenes look into Trump’s 2024 campaign—including that the president was “on the verge of cracking” after an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania and that he was “bewildered” by Elon Musk’s bizarre behavior on the campaign trail.
In 2021, Wolff told People magazine that Trump invited him for dinner at Mar-a-Lago despite publishing two unflattering books on the first Trump administration.
An insider who spoke to Wolff reportedly quoted Trump as saying: “That guy gets ratings. Let’s see him.”
“My reaction was like, ‘What the … ?’ I could not believe this,” Wolff told People. “I went to my wife and I said, ‘Okay, what is the wildest thing you could possibly dream?’ And, in fact, this was too wild for anyone to dream about. But obviously I said, ‘You bet. Just tell me when and I’m there.’”
In a July 2021 column for The New York Times, Wolff said their dinner made him “sure” that Trump would run for president again in 2024.
“After dinner, I asked about his plans for a presidential library, the traditional retirement project and fund-raising scheme of ex-presidents,” Wolff wrote. “There was a flash of confusion on his uniquely readable face, and then anger, aroused, I figured, by the implication of what I seemed to be saying — that his time in office was past. ‘No way, no way,’ he snarled, ‘no way.’”
The White House earlier blasted Wolff as a “lying sack of s–t” in response to the book’s bombshell claims, including that first lady Melania “f---ing hates” Trump, and that the president was afraid of dying in a plane previously owned by notorious sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein.
“He routinely fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination, only possible because he has a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain,” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung previously said in a statement to the Daily Beast.
