"Did he think the architect would remove the Braille from the panels? Never," Res wrote. "I had seen him do this kind of thing before and would again. He would say whatever came into his head. Ordering an underling to do something that was impossible gave Trump the opportunity to castigate a subordinate and also blame him for anything that 'went wrong' in connection with the unperformed order later. A Trump-style win-win."

Res added that whenever Trump made similar requests, she often fought back but other times "played along with him and then didn’t carry out his order."

She uses these examples to draw a parallel between her time working in the Trump Organization and the revelations reported in veteran journalist Bob Woodward's new book, "Fear," and the anonymous op-ed from a senior administration official.

Both the book and the op-ed, which was published in The New York Times, have painted a portrait of a White House increasingly at odds with Trump's impulses.

"Trump is really not all that different now, but the stakes are higher," she wrote. "And there aren’t many order refusers anymore."

Res concludes her piece by saying that Trump's requests are not directed at carpenters or painters anymore, but "about alienating allies, cozying up to dictators and employing dangerous nonsensical economic tactics."