Donald Trump Had a 'Confrontation' With the Secret Service Over His Peculiar Bedtime Habits, Author Reveals

Donald Trump’s nighttime behavior has been problematic since his first day as commander in chief.

In a new “Inside Trump’s Head” podcast episode, famed biographer Michael Wolff explained how the Secret Service put an end to one of the president’s peculiar bedtime habit.

“During the first administration, he had a lock installed on his bedroom door, and that precipitated a fight with the Secret Service, who actually took it off — demanded it be taken off. This was a confrontation,” Wolff revealed of the president.

Wolff, a longtime biographer and close acquaintance of Trump, has authored several books about the president, including All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency and Siege: Trump Under Fire.

While he admitted he has not “been in the Trump bedroom,” Wolff cited a second altercation between the president and White House staff over his bedtime routine.

“Then there was another issue when the White House domestic staff changed his sheets, and he had a fit,” the author shared.

Wolff noted how the president utilizes every second of the night by talking on his phone until he closes his eyes to sleep. “He’s on the phone, too,” the author said. “I think at the last possible moment, he’s talking to somebody.”

As the podcast continued, Wolff explained to host Joanna Coles how the way Trump treats the Oval Office significantly differs from previous presidents.

“The Oval Office in other administrations has been a kind of, you know, a sacrosanct place and a place of meaning and ritual, and, you know, you’re making a point; you’re having people into the Oval Office, and you want them to know it,” he stated.

“In Trump’s Oval Office, it’s like a bus station — it’s filled with people, 20 people, 30 people, more,” Wolff elaborated. “They bring in chairs; almost anyone can bring in chairs and sit down. Trump is behind the desk, talking, talking; it’s like a monologue. Sometimes it’s kind of funny… then digressing into, you know, have no idea where. And everybody is sitting there pretending to listen.”

Wolff claimed those who visit the Oval Office under the Trump administration merely do so to appease the president rather than to listen. The author said Trump becomes so enamored with his own thoughts and voice that his comrades prefer to be on their cell phones instead of listening.

“But you’re not really in the room, in the Oval Office in these big sessions; you’re just sitting there,” he spilled. “Everybody is an audience.”