- In 2016 Donald Trump was in a "fit of pique" over his appearance in a video, Kellyanne Conway wrote.
- "'Kellyanne, tell them I look like a pink, three-year-old baby,'" he told her, she wrote in her new book.
- Trump, then a presidential candidate, had told the makeup artist "not to go near him," she wrote.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump had been taping videos for events that he couldn't attend in person and he didn't like the way the recordings made him look.
He called his pollster and senior advisor, Kellyanne Conway, into his office, where she found "a dozen anxious-looking people" and a hair-and-makeup artist who Trump had just told "not to go near him," Conway wrote in her new book released Tuesday, "Here's the Deal: A Memoir."
"I could tell immediately he was in a fit of pique," she wrote. "'Look at that,' he said to me, motioning toward a video monitor. 'Why am I pink? Who hired you people? Kellyanne, tell them I look like a pink, three-year-old baby.'"
Conway wrote that she thought to herself, "I've had babies. I've had three-year-olds. They were sorta pink. Let me see what we can do about this."
Trump asked everyone but Conway to leave when the taping wrapped up. After an extended conversation about the campaign, Trump offered Conway the campaign manager's job. She would become the first woman to run a winning presidential campaign.
But on that day, she told Trump they should talk about it again the next day, giving Trump a chance to rethink his offer, she wrote.
"'Okay, honey,' he said as I reached for the office door," she wrote. "'Leave it open, Kel,' he added, a harbinger of things to come. 'This is going to be great.'"