Donald Trump Jr.'s recently published book, Triggered, is chock full of interesting details inside the life of the Trump family. One of the more newsworthy headlines: Donald Trump was friends with Michael Jackson, and thus can't be racist. He even let his kids hang out with him.
Let's see what he said.
In the midst of his father's impeachment inquiry, Donald Trump Jr. released a book detailing his theories on current society.
He also included many anecdotes about his father, as well as his childhood.
"Even when Dad would bring home a celebrity, which he did often, I would usually run in the other direction," he wrote.
However, he obviously made an exception for Michael Jackson.
"Oh, and by the way, given all the things my father has been called, particularly a ‘racist,’ it sure sounds odd that he’d let his son vacation with a black man or hang out with Michael Jackson, doesn’t it?"
"If he’s a racist, he’s sure not very good at it."
No word on if Ivanka was invited.
"One day in Eric’s room, my father saw how much Michael enjoyed playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with us on Nintendo and told him he could take the game home. My game!" Donald Jr. wrote.
"To this day, Eric says it was his game because it was in his room, but I know whose game it was," he wrote. "I’d worked a summer job to pay for it!"
"And here was Michael Jackson, probably a billionaire at this point, and he took it!"
Apparently, Michael Jackson was able to hang out with the Trump kids due to the fact that he once resided at Trump Tower.
This was back when Trump Sr. was married to Ivana Trump.
In her own book, she revealed that Jackson would frequent their home.
"Michael was a thirty-year-old kid…He was a child himself in a man’s body, tender, sweet and gentle."
Called Leaving Neverland, the documentary follows two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who alleged they were sexually abused by Michael Jackson when they were children.
"The King of Pop lived in Trump Tower and was a good friend of the whole family," she wrote in her 2017 book, Raising Trump.
However, he had a closer relationship with the kids.
"He’d stop by and chat with Donald and me for a few minutes, and then he’d go up to the kids’ floor to hang out for hours and hours."
Sounds pretty close to what Donald Jr. recounted.
"I never believed the accusations that he molested those kids. There’s no way he could have hurt anyone," she finished.
Michael Jackson was the center of multiple child molestation and sexual abuse accusations before his death in 2009.
h/t: The Hill
