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You in the book, uh, talk about some phone calls, some strange, unusual phone calls that you got from Donald Trump.

Can you share those here?

I've had many interesting calls.

The last time I called him was right before he federalized the National Guard here.

4,000, um, of our... our National Guard were federalized.

He sent 700... I'll remind people. He sent 700 active duty Marines.

Not overseas, but to the second largest city in the United States of America.

That happened last June. People should not forget that.

But I had a conversation with him the night before where he alleged that he read me the Riot Act.

Here's how it went. It was about 10:30 my time, 1:30 his time.

And he goes, "Hey, Gavin, Gavin."

"What do you think of Newscum? What do you think of Newscum?"

It's his nickname for me. I said, "What are you talk..." He goes, "It's pretty original, right?"

I said, "Actually, it's not. There was like an eighth-grade bully that did that when I was a kid."

And then he goes, "Well, MAGA's pretty good." I'm like, "Are we serious?"

I literally said, "Are we having a ma..." He goes, "Well, how many hats you think I sold last month?"

I said, "I don't know." He goes... he said like 211... I said, "That's impressive, sir."

And it was literally a conversation like that.

These are the conversations with Trump. You can't make this stuff up.

And about 12 hours later, he said he had read me the Riot Act

and then moved forward with the federalization of the Guard.

And so I've had some really interesting conversations.

He was upset that you hurt his feelings at one time, right?

Well... I... I'm sorry. I was just impressed.

Yeah, at the inaugural... my inaugural... and by the way, oh God, I write a little bit about this in the book.

I... my little one, number four, just turned 10 two days ago.

And... and he was three years old, little pacifier, and he had a little blanket.

I'm giving a speech, and again, as a guy who can't read a speech, I can do teleprompters,

but they're not easy. So I'm fixated on this teleprompter

and I see all this fuss in the audience, and it's my three-year-old

who runs up on stage and comes right to me during the inaugural. I can't screw up, I can't look away.

And he's right on my leg. And he ran up to his dad, and then...

I picked him up, and then he starts to put his head and falls asleep as I'm reading my speech.

Trump calls me the next day.

And said, "I saw that." I said, "Thank you, Mr. President." I thought it was going to be a positive conversation.

And he goes... and he goes... you know, talks about my wife said something interesting about her. But he goes...

He goes, "Melania's upset." I said, "Melania's upset?" I said, "What about?"

He goes, "Well, you said some pretty harsh things about me."

And I said, "Oh, Mr. Pr..." and I was about to explain what I said. He goes, "Oh, I get it. It's all... we're all good."

Well, he was hurt.

Let me just say this.

He was so sensitive. It's just interesting.

There's no way Melania was upset.

She probably wrote that stuff.

Right? Melania was upset.

Thank you. Thank you.

No doubt about it.

It's just... he's a guy... I mean, this is... if we called him right now, he'd answer.

Uh, and you know, if you got my cell phone, I'm happy to... you know, I got a Mar-a-Lago number.

It's a hell of a thing.

You said that...