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Fast food, screaming matches and bitter infighting — just another day in Donald Trump’s campaign

New book from former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski describes the chaotic nature of the Trump campaign.

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Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski provides a mostly admiring portrait of his former boss, but his book also shows the more surreal side of the Donald Trump campaign.

Elton John blares so loudly on Donald Trump’s campaign plane that staffers can’t hear themselves think. Press secretary Hope Hicks uses a steamer to press Trump’s pants — while he is still wearing them. Trump screams at his top aides, who are subjected to expletive-filled tirades in which they get their “face ripped off.”

And Trump’s appetite seems to know no bounds when it comes to McDonald’s, with a dinner order consisting of “two Big Macs, two Fillet-O-Fish, and a chocolate malted.”

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Hope Hicks, the former Trump Organizations PR staffer turned White House communications director, was in charge of steaming Trump’s suits on the campaign — among her other duties.

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