Donald Trump ‘moaned he could not access PORN in White House as computers there were blocked'
TRUMP'S RUMPY PUMPY GRUMP Donald Trump 'moaned he could not access PORN in White House as computers there were blocked'
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DONALD Trump grumbled about his lack of access to porn in the White House, his former communications director has said.
The US President moaned he could not watch X-rated films as computers there blocked them.
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Trump's former communications director, financier Anthony Scaramucci
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Financier Anthony Scaramucci, who worked for Mr Trump in 2017 during his first stint in office, made the revelation while visiting the UK last month.
Mr Trump — who reputedly had flings with porn star Stormy Daniels and a Playboy model — has also discussed death with Sir Keir Starmer, it is reported.
During a White House lunch in February, the President quizzed the PM about younger brother Nick, who died of cancer aged 60.
According to The Spectator mag, he asked: 'Your brother, Keir…he died…was it a good death?'
Instead of replying in full, Starmer steered the conversation back to lowering car tariffs.
Sir Keir's team said Trump was 'obsessed with death', it was claimed.
The revelations came as Trump — a guest at Hugh Hefner's Playboy mansion during his 2016 presidential bid — signed his 'big beautiful Bill' into law.
It enacts key parts of his agenda including tax cuts and an immigration purge.
US President Donald Trump said Russia just wanted to -keep killing people- and hinted at sanctions after Moscow launched its largest ever drone and missile attack on Ukraine in the three-year-old war-
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