He’s a “Mad Men” president in a #MeToo world.

President Trump mimicked a Hispanic accent during a meeting in the Oval Office to complain about migrants crossing the southern border, according to a new book by an unnamed author.

“We get these women coming in with like seven children,” he allegedly told aides. “They are saying, ‘Oh, please help! My husband left me!’ They are useless. They don’t do anything for our country. At least if they came in with a husband we could put him in the fields to pick corn or something.”

This anecdote comes from “A Warning,” which The Washington Post obtained ahead of its Nov. 19 release. Described only as “a senior official in the Trump administration,” this book is by the same anonymous person who penned the September 2018 New York Times op-ed about resisting the president from the inside.

“I’ve sat and listened in uncomfortable silence as he talks about a woman’s appearance or performance,” the author writes. “He comments on makeup. He makes jokes about weight. He critiques clothing. He questions the toughness of women in and around his orbit. He uses words like ‘sweetie’ and ‘honey’ to address accomplished professionals. This is precisely the way a boss shouldn’t act in the work environment.”

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham dismissed the book as “a work of fiction” and issued a blanket denial. “The coward who wrote this book didn’t put their name on it because it is nothing but lies,” Grisham emailed. The president has previously suggested that the person doesn’t exist, but earlier this week the Justice Department warned the author’s agents at Javelin — who both served in the George W. Bush administration — that whomever has written the book may be violating “one or more nondisclosure agreements” by not going through a classification review.

The Washington Post describes “A Warning” as a “chilling portrait of the president as cruel, inept and a danger to the nation he was elected to lead.” Among the allegations spread across 259 pages:

- “Senior Trump administration officials considered resigning en masse last year in a ‘midnight self-massacre’ . . . but rejected the idea because they believed it would further destabilize an already teetering government.

- Trump considered presidential pardons as ‘unlimited “Get Out of Jail Free’’ cards on a Monopoly board.’

- Trump once asked White House lawyers to draft a bill to send to Congress reducing the number of federal judges. “Can we just get rid of the judges? Let’s get rid of the [expletive] judges,” the president said, according to the book. “There shouldn’t be any at all, really.”

“The book contains a handful of startling assertions that are not backed up with evidence, such as a claim that if a majority of the Cabinet were prepared to remove Trump from office under the 25th Amendment, Vice President Mike Pence would have been supportive. Pence denied this on Thursday, calling the book ‘appalling,’” The Washington Post reported. “The author portrays Trump as fearful of coups against him and suspicious of note-takers on his staff. According to the book, the president shouted at an aide who was scribbling in a notebook during a meeting, ‘What the [expletive] are you doing?’ He added, ‘Are you [expletive] taking notes?’ The aide apologized and closed the notebook.”

The comments about women attributed to Trump in the book track with a long record of other degrading and inappropriate statements, including to a member of his own Cabinet. The New York Times reported last month that Trump called then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen “sweetheart” and “honey” during a conversation about securing the U.S.-Mexico border. “Kirstjen, you didn’t hear me the first time, honey,” Trump said, two people familiar with the conversation told the Times. “Shoot ‘em down. Sweetheart, just shoot ‘em out of the sky, OK?”

Two other memorable metaphors about Trump in the new anonymous book are also generating buzz: Discussing his Twitter tirades, the official writes: “It’s like showing up at the nursing home at daybreak to find your elderly uncle running pantsless across the courtyard and cursing loudly about the cafeteria food, as worried attendants tried to catch him.” The writer also compares Trump to “a twelve-year-old in an air traffic control tower, pushing the buttons of government indiscriminately, indifferent to the planes skidding across the runway and the flights frantically diverting away from the airport.”

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The Times published a negative review of the book Thursday, criticizing the lack of detailed anecdotes and the unwillingness of the author to attach their name: “How can a book that has been denuded of anything too specific do anything more than pale against a formal whistle-blower complaint? It’s hard to look like a heroic truth teller by comparison, but Anonymous tries very hard,” Jennifer Szalai writes. “Anonymous has seen disturbing things. Anonymous has heard disturbing things. You, the reader, will already recognize most of what Anonymous has seen and heard as revealed in this book if you have been paying any attention to the news. Did you know that the president isn’t much of a reader? That he’s inordinately fond of autocrats? That ‘he stumbles, slurs, gets confused, is easily irritated, and has trouble synthesizing information’?

The author preemptively defends the decision to conceal his or her identity: “Some will call this ‘cowardice.’ My feelings are not hurt by the accusation. Nor am I unprepared to attach my name to criticism of President Trump. I may do so, in due course.”

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