Bill Clinton couldn’t sleep for two years after his wife Hillary lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
But the former president had a bizarre coping mechanism – he tried to imagine he was a giant inflatable toy of cartoon figures like Baby Huey and Casper the Friendly Ghost.
The unusual confession came in Clinton’s new book, Citizen: My Life After the White House, in which he admits to “outbursts of rage” when things went wrong.
But he wrote that he tried to remain resilient. “When the going got rough, I tried to imagine that I was one of those big inflatable toys of the cartoon figures Baby Huey or Casper the Friendly Ghost.
“You could knock them down and they always bounced right back up.”
In the memoir, he apologized to people in the firing line when he was angry.
“I couldn’t sleep for two years after the (2016) election. I was so angry, I wasn’t fit to be around,” he wrote. “I apologize to all those who endured my outbursts of rage which lasted for years and bothered or bored people who thought it pointless to rehash things that couldn’t be changed.”
The 78-year-old 42nd president said he is still angry over the way Hillary was victimized during the election campaign and complained that he was pressed on NBC News to apologize personally to Monica Lewinsky rather than generally.
His greatest achievement since leaving the White House is said to be his successful campaign to cut the cost of AIDS medicine which transformed the way the disease was treated.
