Trump's memory 'very foggy,' says author Ramin Setoodeh

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Donald Trump's alleged mental decline is depicted in the new book, “Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass.

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump said during a post-presidency interview with an author that he had to deal with an Afghanistan-related issue, even though he no longer had foreign policy powers, according to audio shared exclusively with NBC News. “The reason I’m doing this and devoting a lot of time to it, I have to get back up, because I’m doing the whole thing with the Afghanistan,' Trump told author Ramin Setoodeh in a post-presidency interview.

He did not address why Trump discussed handling a foreign policy matter when he no longer held those powers. In an MSNBC interview Thursday, Setoodeh threw doubt on Trump's memory, saying his recall of his reality TV show 'The Apprentice' was 'much clearer than his memory of what he did in the White House.' 'He stumbled with the chronology of recent events,' Setoodeh said. 'He stumbled in terms of what had happened in terms of our interviews.

 

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