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Trump once asked a top White House aide to assure him that his penis wasn't small or shaped like a toadstool, new book says

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Former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

  • Trump once asked a top aide to confirm that his penis wasn't small or shaped like a toadstool.
  • That's according to former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham's forthcoming book.
  • She reportedly wrote that Trump called her from Air Force One seeking reassurance about the size of his penis.
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Former President Donald Trump once called a top White House aide and asked her to confirm that his penis wasn't small or shaped like a toadstool, an explosive new book says, according to The Washington Post and The New York Times.

The former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham writes in her forthcoming book, "I'll Take Your Questions Now," that Trump called her while he was on Air Force One and asked her to assure him that his penis wasn't small or toadstool-shaped, as the adult film star Stormy Daniels had alleged.

"Uh, yes sir," Grisham responded.

Grisham went on to write that Trump at another point asked her boyfriend, who was also a White House official, whether Grisham was good in bed.

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The Post detailed the anecdotes when it published details from Grisham's book on Tuesday. Insider has not independently confirmed their veracity.

"This book is another pitiful attempt to cash in on the President's strength and sell lies about the Trump family, Liz Harrington, a spokesperson for Trump, told The Post in a statement. She also called Grisham a "disgruntled former employee" and said book publishers "should be ashamed of themselves for preying on desperate people who see the short term gain in writing a book full of falsehoods."

Daniels alleges that she had an affair with Trump in 2006. Trump and his then-lawyer and longtime fixer Michael Cohen coordinated a $130,000 hush-money payment to Daniels shortly before the 2016 US election to keep her from making details of the alleged affair public.

In her 2018 memoir, Daniels wrote that Trump's penis was "smaller than average" and unusually shaped.

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"He knows he has an unusual penis," Daniels wrote. "It has a huge mushroom head. Like a toadstool."

Daniels said she later regretted commenting on Trump's anatomy, calling it "body shaming." 

Trump and Cohen's efforts to buy Daniels' silence about the alleged affair formed the basis of Cohen's August 2018 guilty plea to eight counts of tax evasion, campaign finance violations, and bank fraud.

He also pleaded guilty in November of that year to one count of lying to Congress as part of the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 US election.

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Daniels and Cohen have in recent months repaired their relationship, and she has appeared twice as a guest on his podcast, "Mea Culpa."

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