India, June 20 -- A forthcoming book about Donald Trump's presidency has made a series of unusual claims about his personal involvement in redecorating the White House, including an incident in which press secretary Karoline Leavitt allegedly found him holding a tube of superglue in the Oval Office.

The allegation appears in Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, an upcoming book by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.

According to the authors, Leavitt, who is currently on maternity leave, walked into the Oval Office one morning and found Trump making decorative changes himself instead of leaving the task to White House staff.

The White House had not publicly responded to the specific clai...