Some of these anecdotes, including that Trump preferred to eat two Big Macs, two Filet-o-Fish, and a chocolate milkshake from McDonald's, were revealed on December 2, 2017, when the Washington Post published excerpts of an advance copy of the book.

[4] In the book, the authors also wrote that "Sooner or later, everybody who works for Donald Trump will see a side of him that makes you wonder why you took a job with him in the first place".

[5] The book also states that Chris Vlasto, the then-executive producer of Good Morning America, called Bossie at 5:01 PM on the night of the 2016 election with early exit polling data.

[6] Maggie Haberman, writing in the New York Times, described Let Trump Be Trump as "...a combination of over-the-top praise for [Lewandowski's and Bossie's] candidate, nostalgic remembrances of glory days and rewarding aides they liked and score-settling with their enemies, particularly Paul Manafort, whose arrival in the campaign started the countdown clock on Mr. Lewandowski's dismissal."

[2] David Frum, reviewing the book in the Washington Post, described it as "...by turns gullible, dishonest and weirdly careless.