It was January of 2017, and a newly inaugurated president Donald Trump held a reception at the White House to meet with top congressional leaders. Hors d’oeuvres were on the menu. And the new president turned to a row of racially diverse Democratic staffers and asked them to retrieve the canapés, according to [the] book.
“Why don’t you get” the food, Trump told staffers for Senator Chuck Schumer, Representative Nancy Pelosi, and others…. Then White House chief of staff Reince Priebus rushed to correct Trump’s remark, telling the then president that he’d just addressed top congressional aides before going to find the actual White House waitstaff.
