White House Staff Reportedly Monitored Trump's Trash Because 'He Was Sometimes Throwing Out' High-End Silverware

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Jun 18th, 2026, 10:04 pm


An excerpt from The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s upcoming book, published on Thursday by the Daily Mail, revealed that White House staff allegedly needed to monitor President Donald Trump’s trash after it was discovered that “he was sometimes throwing out” sterling silver utensils.

The snippet came from Swan and Haberman’s new book on the first 14 months of Trump’s first term, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. According to them, staffers responsible for maintaining the president’s private quarters were dealing with a variety of unusual housekeeping challenges.

“A nighttime snacker, the President would frequently leave an array of empty potato chip bags, Starbucks wrappers, and ice cream cartons in the trash, or on the floor,” they wrote.

That habit reportedly prompted closer scrutiny of the trash after aides realized valuable White House items were disappearing along with the food waste. “The staff had to begin monitoring the trash after it was discovered he was sometimes throwing out White House sterling silver utensils,” Haberman and Swan added.

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[displacedvermoter]

1. I imagine a number of "valuable White House items"

have disappeared, and will continue to disappear, for the next two years...

[Bengus81]

25. Gosh...wonder if a load of Official WH silverware shows up for sale to the magots

at some point in time.

[displacedvermoter]

27. Who knows what vanished when they

demolished the East Wing on a Sunday night...

[no_hypocrisy]

2. And don't forget to monitor those "CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS" !!!!

[yorkster]

30. Bigtime.

Loose Cannon still in charge of those, if I have followed the saga correctly.

[tanyev]

3. Sounds like someone needs to be in a facility with plastic trays and plastic cutlery.

😒

[WmChris]

10. Yes

With padded walls and white jackets all around.

[surfered]

4. Classic dementia.

[SergeStorms]

5. What a pig.

Just leaving a trail of unhealthy "snacking" in his wake and expecting the WH Staff to clean up after him.

You can have all the money in the world and still be White Trash, apparently.

[Bengus81]

26. I support that unhealthy snacking 100%!!

[SergeStorms]

33. I used to....

when I was younger, but my doctor finally convinced me of how unhealthy it really is. Getting old isn't for weaklings.

[Chemical Bill]

42. Unhealthy snacking for TSF...

is good for the USA.

[SergeStorms]

43. Now....

THAT I can agree on.

[Hugin]

6. What a metaphor for a life spent without accountability...

Paying other people to dig through your trash to undo your negligence and malfeasance.

[Justice matters.]

35. Except it's not piggyrapist paying for it, it's workers' taxes.

Talk about an elitist pig!

No offense to nice non-elitist pigs.

[Diamond_Dog]

7. What a reckless, entitled, slob.

But, then, “Everybody knows that ….”

[HarryM]

8. Just give him

Plastic utensils. Lead utensils on Sunday.

[chowder66]

22. Make sure it's the gold plastic!

[Bengus81]

28. Make it sporks too..........

[SergeStorms]

34. The recyclable ones.

The hard, clear, plastic ones just go to landfills. More petroleum waste.

[ck4829]

50. Ha. Right?

[twodogsbarking]

9. They think he was throwing it out. The more he professes his honesty the more inclined I am to count the silver.

[kurtyboy]

12. Agreed--

If Haberman "reveals" a story like this, I always wonder what motivated the sources (and how she is so easily gulled...).

Let's suppose Trump actually stole a thousand pounds of silverware (and don't think for a moment he wouldn't): what plausible cover could be concocted to account for the missing forks?

[Goonch]

11. ;-{) THIS

[Bayard]

13. Who is bringing him his midnight snacks?

I can't imagine he's rummaging through the kitchen himself. He'd demand his snacks in a crystal bowl.

[hamsterjill]

14. Maybe it's an age thing, but I have a real problem with people throwing things on the floor for others to pick up.

Maybe some fellow senior DU'ers can tell me if this is just a generational thing or what, but I absolutely HATE things on the floor. I don't put blankets, etc. on the floor because the floor is where you walk.

In the same vein, I consider it a very demeaning thing when someone throws something on the floor for someone else to have to bend down and pick up.

Am I surprised that Trump does this? Of course not. He's an entitled asshole slob. But I am not going to stop calling out bad behavior and give him a pass just because he is an entitled asshole slob.

[Buddyzbuddy]

15. I recall a report about Stephen Miller deliberately doing the same thing

when he was a student at Santa Monica H.S.. He said it was the janitors job to pick up the trash so he was entitled to just throw it on the ground for them to pick up. I seem to recall the janitors were referred to as Mexican.

[hamsterjill]

23. Assholes!

All of them. The very idea that one person thinks he is "better" than someone else perturbs me to no end.

I hope to see Miller behind bars one of these days and maybe his job can be trash detail.

[ck4829]

49. I remember this too

[LeftinOH]

19. He has always had servants to clean up after him -- his entire life.

He doesn't know anything else.

[hamsterjill]

24. That's a given.

No surprise there. Still doesn't mean he's not an entitled asshole. He needs to LEARN and I don't care if his education begins at 80. Sombitch is NO BETTER than anyone else.

[ck4829]

48. True

[tavernier]

29. I never never, never ever never put my purse on the floor.

I read one time that they took a bacterial count of purses that ladies had left on the floor and it was astronomical. All the crap you pick up on the pavement is on the floor and now it’s all over your purse. Also, I was once in a theater in Latvia years ago and I had left my purse on the floor, and a lady a few seats from me told me that there is a belief in the country that boxes or bags that are on the ground and left open can be inhabited by evil spirits. I have never left my purse on the floor since that day. And the bottom of my white purses never gather any dirt.

[bamagal62]

51. Same!

I know this is crazy, but I absolutely HATE that they make you put your bag on the floor in front of you on a plane. It completely grosses me out. I bring alcohol spray with me and spray the floor of my seat before placing my bag there. (There’s alway urine on the floor in a plane bathroom. That ends up on the bottom of shoes and then on the floor in front of an airplane seat!) we also remove our shoes before entering the house. If you’ve seen the sidewalks of NYC, you’d also remove your shoes!
And, now you’ve told me about evil spirits!!!

[Blue_Roses]

44. You're not the only one

and it's not an age thing. It's a slob thing. I can't imagine living very long if I had done that as a kid.

[COL Mustard]

16. Something is wrong in this article...

He actually put garbage in the garbage cans? I assumed someone as entitled as he would just leave it on the floor...you know, for the little people to deal with.

Throwing out the silverware is just icing on the cake.

[dave99]

17. shitstain is The Seven Deadly Sins

[Seinan Sensei]

20. He deserves a category of his own

“The eighth deadly sin”

[Martin68]

18. Demented barbarian.

[Fil1957]

21. His visit to Windsor Castle according to ETimes September 26, 2025:

Donald Trump’s visit to Windsor Castle has sparked a royal scandal of its own—this time not about politics, but about the state of his guest suite. According to RadarOnline, Trump allegedly left his overnight rooms in “total filth,” shocking royal staff who described the aftermath as “unprecedented.” Sources claim the bed sheets were left “completely orange” from tanning products, while the room was littered with takeout boxes, hair sprays, and fast food wrappers. One insider told the outlet: “This was Windsor Castle, not a roadside motel.” Another claimed Trump had fast food delivered at 2 a.m., leaving the suite smelling of fries and fried chicken by morning. Palace aides reportedly said nearly everything in the room had to be replaced after his departure, with staff “disgusted” by the mess. While the Royal Family has not commented, the claims are already causing a storm online, adding a new chapter to Trump’s controversial history with the palace.

The guy has the cleanliness and habits of a 5 year old.

[Bristlecone]

31. I'm more surprised that he throws anything out himself

But maybe his drug and dementia addled brain is trying to flinch it down the toilet.

[Emile]

32. New White House staff job description. Must be fluent in diplomacy, protocol, and sorting through half-eaten

Big Macs to retrieve the Lincoln-era spoons.

[ck4829]

47. Such dignity in the job. The voters really did throw "respect for the office" out in 2024.

[YoshidaYui]

36. You can't expect someone who looks like a PIG

not to LIVE LIKE ONE.

[moreland01]

37. My mother kept

throwing her hearing aids in the toilet in the weeks before she died.

[Blue Owl]

38. The Slobfather never sounded so apt

[slightlv]

39. My husband, who has dementia,

has this exact same habit. Except he never picks anything up once he's done with it to dispose of it properly. But more than once I've had to go digging in the trash trying to find something he "probably" threw away.

Trump is so far into dementia you can no longer call it "early stages." Every day I contrast what he does with my hubby's actions of the day. Without fail, trump is so much further down the scale of dementia that I praise my hubby for what he, himself, as accomplished during the day.

[ck4829]

46. Sorry to hear that, but good information

[maxsolomon]

41. Nighttime snacking is why you're fat, you vulgar asshole

YOU HAVE A PERSONAL CHEF, FFS.

[ck4829]

45. K&R

[LetMyPeopleVote]

52. AI rendering of trumps bedroom at the White House based on leaked information

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