An aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellMcConnell focuses on confirming judicial nominees with COVID-19 talks stalled McConnell accuses Democrats of sowing division by 'downplaying progress' on election security Warren, Schumer introduce plan for next president to cancel ,000 in student debt MORE (R-Ky.) is pushing back on a claim in author Michael Wolff's new tell-all book on the Trump White House that McConnell blew President Trump Donald John TrumpHR McMaster says president's policy to withdraw troops from Afghanistan is 'unwise' Cast of 'Parks and Rec' reunite for virtual town hall to address Wisconsin voters Biden says Trump should step down over coronavirus response MORE off last summer to get a haircut.

"I can confirm: this never happened. Neither the author nor vox bothered to check," McConnell's deputy chief of staff Don Stewart said in a tweet referring to Wolff's book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House."

I can confirm: this never happened. Neither the author nor vox bothered to check. https://t.co/5eFibCN7zS — STEW (@StewSays) January 6, 2018

Wolff writes in the book that, while the president and senator were "barely on speaking terms" in August, Trump's staff had tried to organize a makeup meeting. But McConnell's staff told Trump's team that it would not be possible because McConnell was getting a haircut, according to Wolff.

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Tensions were running high between Trump and McConnell at the time due to the Senate's failure to fulfill the seven-year Republican campaign promise of repealing and replacing ObamaCare.

“No one ‘blew him off’ and in fact the meeting occurred as soon as members returned to Washington after Labor Day,” Stewart said in an email to Vox, adding that no staff member “ever turned down the meeting citing a haircut. That never happened. The author didn’t bother to check either of those points and ended up getting both wrong in his book (as he did with so many others).”

Wolff's book shook the nation's capital this week, causing the White House and the president to push back on the headline-making claims.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders referred to the book as "complete fantasy and full of tabloid gossip," while Trump denied ever meeting with Wolff during his time in the White House.