It’s no secret that the Trump family isn’t the most functional in the world, but this is something truly special.

Donald Trump instructed his former chief of staff to fire his children because they kept generating bad media coverage, according to a new book.

Kushner Inc., by journalist Vicky Ward, makes the claim that, when Trump hired John F. Kelly as his chief of staff, the president directed him: “Get rid of my kids; get them back to New York.”

According to the book, which is previewed in The New York Times, Trump complained that his daughter Ivanka and his son-in-law Jared Kushner “didn’t know how to play the game” and kept attracting negative press.

Kelly reportedly said it would look bad to fire them so they decided to make life difficult enough to force Kushner and Ivanka to resign.

However, the pair survived the plan and Kelly resigned in December.

Ward also reports Ivanka and Kushner kept getting refused travel on Air Force planes—but found a workaround by inviting along a Cabinet secretary, often Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, to get access to the government flights.

However, Ivanka and Jared’s people are fighting back against the book.

“Every point that Ms. Ward mentioned in what she called her ‘fact checking’ stage was entirely false,” Peter Mirijanian, a spokesman for Kushner’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said in a statement to The New York Times. “It seems she has written a book of fiction rather than any serious attempt to get the facts. Correcting everything wrong would take too long and be pointless.”

To Abbe Lowell’s claim that I have written a “book of fiction” and that “correcting everything wrong would take too long and be pointless,” I will simply say that the 220 people I interviewed for the book might beg to disagree. https://t.co/5tDQMQsRUc #KushnerInc

— Vicky Ward (@VickyPJWard) March 12, 2019