EXCLUSIVE: Trump flew into rage and shouted ‘Why would we do this?’ after Drudge Report said U.S. was PAYING Mexico $4.8 billion instead of collecting border wall money – as he told aides ‘This is the stupidest s**t you’ve ever done’

'Why the f**k would we do this?' Trump on lack of Mexico wall money

'I'm not getting $5 billion for the wall, and instead I'm paying Mexico $5 billion?…

Mail Online

• Book from New York Times reporters describes volatile president losing his temper and cursing at aides over a Drudge Report headline
• News media on a December 2018 Tuesday had reported that Trump caved on his demand that Mexico pay for a border wall
• Instead of soaking Mexico for $5 billion, according to the terms of a deal the president had agreed to, the U.S. would send the country $4.8 billion
• The money was meant to help alleviate the poverty and violence that drove many illegal immigrants to the north, but Trump wavered and then exploded
• ‘WALL FUNDING OFF TABLE. U.S.A. GIVING $4.8 BILLION TO MEXICO,’ the Drudge banner read
• ‘My f***ing friends are calling me,’ the president yelled at aides who had convinced him to make the deal. ‘This is the stupidest s**t you’ve ever done’
• Drama unfolded amid high-stakes fight over a government shutdown with House Democrats who had just won a majority in the midterm elections 
• Revelation comes from ‘Border Wars: Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration’

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