For those of you who are not familiar with the Drudge Report, it is a huge part of conservative media and the headlines on Drudge often becoming talking points for Trump and cable news.

And major news sources like the New York Times and the Washington Post gets the majority of their traffic from Drudge.

According to the forthcoming book Border Wars, by New York Times reporters Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael Shear, Trump — on Dec. 18, 2018 — was irate after seeing the Drudge headline: “USA Giving $4.8 Billion to Mexico.” And the president went on to dress down the aides who convinced him to make the agreement with the country.

The Daily Mail has the exclusive book excepts.

“My f*cking friends are calling me,” Trump yelled. “This is the stupidest sh*t you’ve ever done. Why the f*ck would we do this?”

The money — which was given to Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua along with Mexico — was earmarked for the governments of those nations to fight drug trafficking, poverty, and violence. But the media largely played the dispersal to Mexico as a defeat for the administration. And that left Trump quite unhappy.

“I’m not getting $5 billion for the wall, and instead I’m paying Mexico $5 billion?” Trump raged. “What the f*ck am I getting out of this?”

One of the biggest proponents of the deal, according to the book, was Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. He argued that without the deal, Mexico wouldn’t agree to a plan which would require those seeking asylum to remain in Mexico while their claims were being looked at.

“Pompeo tried to explain that a lot of the money was private investment – American companies going down to Mexico would turn a profit and create jobs,” Shear and Davis wrote.