White House Staff Reportedly Monitored Trump's Trash Because 'He Was Sometimes Throwing Out' High-End Silverware
Source: MEDIAite
Jun 18th, 2026, 10:04 pm
An excerpt from The New York Times Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swans upcoming book, published on Thursday by the Daily Mail, revealed that White House staff allegedly needed to monitor President Donald Trumps trash after it was discovered that he was sometimes throwing out sterling silver utensils.
The snippet came from Swan and Habermans new book on the first 14 months of Trumps first term, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. According to them, staffers responsible for maintaining the presidents 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
(5,191 posts)have disappeared, and will continue to disappear, for the next two years...
Bengus81
(10,521 posts)at some point in time.
displacedvermoter
(5,191 posts)demolished the East Wing on a Sunday night...
no_hypocrisy
(55,655 posts)yorkster
(4,002 posts)Loose Cannon still in charge of those, if I have followed the saga correctly.
tanyev
(49,904 posts)😒
With padded walls and white jackets all around.
surfered
(14,941 posts)SergeStorms
(21,018 posts)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
(10,521 posts)SergeStorms
(21,018 posts)when I was younger, but my doctor finally convinced me of how unhealthy it really is. Getting old isn't for weaklings.
Hugin
(38,088 posts)Paying other people to dig through your trash to undo your negligence and malfeasance.
Justice matters.
(10,200 posts)Talk about an elitist pig!
No offense to nice non-elitist pigs.
Diamond_Dog
(41,432 posts)But, then, Everybody knows that .
HarryM
(469 posts)Plastic utensils. Lead utensils on Sunday.
chowder66
(12,666 posts)Bengus81
(10,521 posts)SergeStorms
(21,018 posts)The hard, clear, plastic ones just go to landfills. More petroleum waste.
twodogsbarking
(19,736 posts)kurtyboy
(1,022 posts)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
(5,866 posts)
Bayard
(30,611 posts)I can't imagine he's rummaging through the kitchen himself. He'd demand his snacks in a crystal bowl.
hamsterjill
(17,928 posts)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
(3,019 posts)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
(17,928 posts)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.
LeftinOH
(5,690 posts)He doesn't know anything else.
hamsterjill
(17,928 posts)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.
tavernier
(14,565 posts)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 its 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.
COL Mustard
(8,476 posts)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
(431 posts)Seinan Sensei
(1,717 posts)The eighth deadly sin
Martin68
(28,230 posts)Fil1957
(951 posts)Donald Trumps visit to Windsor Castle has sparked a royal scandal of its ownthis 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 Trumps controversial history with the palace.
The guy has the cleanliness and habits of a 5 year old.
Bristlecone
(11,234 posts)But maybe his drug and dementia addled brain is trying to flinch it down the toilet.
Emile
(43,986 posts)Big Macs to retrieve the Lincoln-era spoons.
YoshidaYui
(46,091 posts)not to LIVE LIKE ONE.
moreland01
(890 posts)throwing her hearing aids in the toilet in the weeks before she died.
Blue Owl
(59,942 posts)slightlv
(8,153 posts)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.