In response, President Trump boasts of being ‘a very stable genius’ and calls Michael Wolff a ‘fraud’.

'Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House' paints Donald Trump as a man-child who didn’t actually want to win the presidential election, and who spends his evenings eating cheeseburgers in bed.

When American journalist Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House released on Friday, days ahead of its schedule, it became an instant bestseller. The book offers explosive commentary on US President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the first year of his administration. Reportedly based on more than 200 interviews with the President, his inner circle and key aides inside and outside the US administration, the book lifts the lid on how Trump is perceived by some within the White House.

Wolff claimed the Trump team was shocked by his win on election night and future First Lady, Melania Trump, was in tears, “and not of joy,” after learning that the former television celebrity would win. On inauguration day, Wolff writes, Trump “was visibly fighting with his wife, who seemed to be on the verge of tears and would return to New York.” The two reportedly have separate bedrooms (“the first time since the Kennedy White House that a presidential couple had maintained separate rooms”).

Trump’s former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon too lends his voice to the book. In the book, the Breitbart News chief — who was fired by Trump after the Charlottesville violence — also accused Trump’s eldest son Donald Jr of “treasonous” behaviour while meeting a group of Russians in the Trump Tower. Charles Harder, Trump’s personal lawyer, told Reuters that “legal action is imminent” against Bannon.