One of President Donald Trump’s biggest enemies is attacking him again with the astonishing claim that the president was “attached” to the interpreter’s breast during the Japanese prime minister’s recent visit to Japan.
Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter makes the case in the magazine’s latest issue.
Carter has accused Trump of making inappropriate comments about a young woman who was working as a translator for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during his visit to the United States last month.
“The President told acquaintances that he was infatuated with his interpreter’s breasts, but he expressed it in his own mellow way,” Carter wrote.
The woman, who has not been named, played a central role in the eventful visit.
At the same time the Japanese leader was in the United States, North Korea conducted a missile test and the two leaders held an impromptu press conference at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
The woman who reportedly caught Trump’s eye was photographed shining a light on documents the Japanese delegation was reading at a table that night.
This has led some to question Mar-a-Lago’s security posture.
Carter wrote: “Trump may be a joke, but the chaotic and destructive forces surrounding him are no joke. If he can wreak this much chaos a few months into his presidency, imagine what the country and the world will look like four years from now.”
It will be the first time a Vanity Fair editor has met Trump so close to the inauguration.
But there seems to be very little affection between the two.
Mr Trump recently tweeted: “Has anyone seen the really awful numbers from Vanity Fair? So down, so in trouble, so dead! Talentless Graydon Carter is out!”