By: Laura Meyers
Hillary Clinton is the kind of person that walks into a bar, asks for the gluten-free menu and orders sparkling water in a chilled glass with thirteen pieces of crushed ice. Here are 5 of the diva’s most demanding moments:
1. University speaking fees
Mrs. Clinton’s speaking contracts have been under harsh scrutiny recently… and for good reason. One reason in particular is the amount Miss Hillary charges to speak at a University- averaging anywhere between $250,000-300,000, because, you know, she’s “dead broke.”
A UCLA representative asked Clinton’s people if they could receive a discounted rate since for a speech, since they’re a taxpayer-funded public educational institution and were told “this is the special rate” at $300,000.
She must also have final approval over the venue’s “sets, backdrops, banners, scenery, logos, settings, etc”, and the topic and length of her address are at her “sole discretion” says a contact from a speaking event at Buffalo University.
There’s more.
Additionally, she required that the university provide her with “presidential glass panel teleprompter and a qualified operator,” and her hosts must pay an additional $1,000 to have a trained stenographer on hand to transcribe the speech as she delivers it so that she could have the speech verbatim scribed for her personal records, but the university isn’t allowed a copy. And the press could attend the speech, but not the reception before it.
She’s so down-to-earth.
2. Green room demands
In the same outrageously expensive UCLA speaking fee contract, there some of Hillary’s most popular diva green room demands. Some include:
- Lemon wedges and both warm and room temperature water on stage
- Case of room temperature water just off stage
- Room temperature sparkling and still water, diet ginger ale, hummus, crudite, and cut fruit in green room
- Computer and scanner in green room
- Maximum of 50 photos with VIP’s, who had to be waiting for her
- Approval of style and color of armchairs to be used on stage
- Teleprompter and 2-3 downstage scrolling monitors
3. Verbally attacking Secret Service
Former Secret Service agent to President Bill Clinton, Dan Emmett, revealed some of Hillary’s most princess-esque demands in his book “Within Arm’s Length.”
He talks about how Hillary hurled a book at the back of the head of one agent driving her in the Presidential limo and accused him of eavesdropping and profanely ordered agents to carry bags for her.
‘Stay the f**k away from me! Just f*****g do as I say!!!’ she is quoted as saying to an agent who refused to carry her luggage in the book Unlimited Access by FBI agent Gary Aldridge- another book complaining about Miss Thang.
4. Treating reporters like children
At the end of an event in Iowa, Ed Henry, White House correspondent for Fox News asked Hill-dawg if she might take a few questions from the press.
“Maybe when I finish talking to the people here, how’s that?” the Democratic presidential candidate said.
After Henry followed up, Clinton added with a smile, pretending to write herself a note: “I might — I’ll have to ponder it, but I will put it on my list for due consideration.”
Because what’s a public servant without a lack of transparency?
5. Travel conditions
Whenever Hillary is requested at an event, she demands the best because she’s da boss. She requests a Gulfstream 450 or larger private jet, round-trip business class for two staffers, a presidential suite for herself and three adjoining rooms for staff, $500 travel stipend for Clinton’s lead travel aid (totally necessary you know), and financial coverage of all meals and incidentals.