According to Politico [1], Madeleine Westerhout, who left her White House job suddenly on Thursday as Donald Trump’s personal assistant, was fired after bragging to reporters that she had a better relationship with Trump than his own daughters, Ivanka and Tiffany Trump, and that the president did not like being in pictures with Tiffany because he perceived her as overweight.
Given Westerhout’s sensitive role as a confidante to the president, the few details the White House shared about her abrupt firing had Washington’s political-media class in a quiet frenzy on Thursday night and Friday.
The critical comments happened at an off-the-record dinner, according to two people familiar with the matter, that Westerhout and deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley held earlier this month with reporters who were covering Trump’s vacation at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Westerhout also jokingly told the journalists that Trump couldn’t pick Tiffany out of a crowd, said one of the people. “She had a couple drinks and in an uncharacteristically unguarded moment, she opened up to the reporters,” the person said.
At some point, Gidley left the restaurant for a television interview on Fox News. During that time — around 45 minutes to an hour — Westerhout made the comments to the reporters.
Twitter was disgusted:
Trump has said publicly that he is less proud of his younger daughter Tiffany than he is of his other kids.
Now his longtime personal assistant, Madeleine Westerhout, says he also didn’t like to be in pictures with Tiffany because he thinks she’s fat.
A nasty man to his core.
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) August 30, 2019 [2]
OMFG
45 is so fvckin ugly. He doesn't want to be in photos with Tiffany because he thinks she's fat!? Has that soulless sack of rancid racist rats ever looked in a full length mirror?! https://t.co/DMG7hawWoN [3]— 45'sAClearAndPresentDanger ♿✊🌎🌹 (@zzippycorgi11) August 30, 2019 [4]
According to Trump’s personal assistant, he’s never seen in a photo with his daughter Tiffany because he thinks she’s fat. https://t.co/XlnU2vDvcf [5]
— Mueller, She Wrote Podcast (@MuellerSheWrote) August 30, 2019 [6]
Fired White House aide: “The president does not like being in pictures with his daughter Tiffany because he thinks she’s overweight.”
Welcome to donald trump’s alternate reality:
Where everyone ELSE is fat, stupid, lazy & criminal…but him. 😉— Michael (@MichaelBense) August 30, 2019 [7]