Putin doesn't 'give a s**t' about Trump, claims explosive new White House book

Russian president Vladimir Putin doesn’t give a ‘s**t’ about Donald Trump, according to the explosive new book about life in the White House.

The claim is made in Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House‘.

The book has proved so controversial that it could prove massively damaging to the US president, who has tried to stop its publication.

In response, the book has been released early. It was due to be released next Tuesday, but the publication date has now been brought forward to today.

It allegedly contains many jaw-dropping claims about the Trump presidency and those advisors and family which surround him.

Among them is the claim about Putin.

The apparent comment was made during a dinner between Steve Bannon, who served as the White House Chief Strategist, and Roger Ailes, the now dead former CEO of Fox News, who was forced out of his job after sexual harrasment claims.

During the controversial pair’s dinner, the topic of Russia was spoken about.

Ailes apparently asked Bannon what Trump ‘has gotten himself into’ with Russia.

Bannon responds: ‘Mostly, he went to Russia and he thought he was going to meet Putin. But Putin couldn’t give a s**t about him. So he’s kept trying,’ reads the book.

If true, the claim is intriguing as the Trump administration has been bedeviled by claims of its links to Moscow.

Investigations are currently taking place in the US about whether there was Russian interference in the US election, and whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin.

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The Putin is one in a series of explosive claims made by Wolff.

Others include questions over the mental capacity of the president.

Wolf”s book claims Trump continually repeats himself and before Christmas could not recognise long-standing friends at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

It is also claimed that he didn’t like his own presidential inauguration, that he goes days without seeing his wife Melania, and his desire to employ his family in the White House.

The claims are so incendiary that some have doubted whether they are true.

But strategist Janice Minn has taken to Twitter to claim that she was present at a dinner with Wolff, Bannon and Ailes in New York and that every word she has read so far about the book was ‘absolutely accurate’, she claimed.

In an interview with a US TV network on Friday, Wolff claimed that Trump’s staff say he has no credibility and treat the president ‘like a child’.

He told NBC: ‘The one description that everyone gave, everyone has in common: They all say he is like a child.

‘And what they mean by that is he has a need for immediate gratification. It’s all about him… He just has to be satisfied in the moment.’

Trump has tweeted that he gave no access to Wolff and said the book was ‘full of lies’ and described as ‘phony’.

He also claimed Bannon had ‘lost’ his mind and called him ‘Sloppy Steve’ in a tweet.

His lawyers issued a ‘cease and desist’ letter to try and stop the book being published.