“Trump did not enjoy his own inauguration. He had hoped for a big blowout. Tom Barrack, the would-be showman—in addition to Michael… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Jim Baker, chief of staff for both Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and almost everybody’s model for managing the West… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Sean Spicer, whose job was literally to explain what people did and why, often simply could not—because nobody really had a job,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Anyone studying the position would conclude that a stronger chief of staff is better than a weaker one, and a chief of… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“There would be, in other words, one chief of staff in name—the unimportant one—and various others, more important, in practice, ensuring both… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“In the early days of Trump’s presidency, the situation seemed clear to everybody: three men were fighting to run the White House,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The president himself, absent any organizational rigor, often acted as his own chief of staff, or, in a sense, elevated the press… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“It had personally pained Trump not to be able to give it to him. But if the Republican establishment had not wanted… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Donald Trump doesn't necessarily stay mad for very long. He's a transactional guy. If you can offer him something, he will take it. Or… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“it confirmed Bannon’s worst fear: Trump, in his true heart, was a marshmallow.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“An important aspect of Kaplan’s New York Observer and its self-conscious inside media baseball was that the paper became the prime school for a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“The candidate who billed himself as a billionaire—ten times over—refused even to invest his own money in it.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share
If institutions don't grow, they... well, I don't know what happens to them, because they always grow. I suppose the point is that we… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“Even though Trump liked to portray his business as an empire, it was actually a discrete holding company and boutique enterprise,” — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“the organizational premise of the Trump White House: the family would always prevail.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“Trump, who referred to the Chinese leader as “Mr. X-i”; the president was told to think of him as a woman and call him… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“Donald Trump, even more than his father, was perceived as a vulgarian—after all, he put his name on his buildings, quite a déclassé thing… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your e-book. Please use the search function… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives into bed.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“The kids”—Jared and Ivanka—exhibited an increasingly panicked sense that the FBI and DOJ were moving beyond Russian election interference and into family finances. “Ivanka… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“Politics had seemed to become, even well before the age of Trump, a mortal affair. It was now zero-sum: When one side profited, another… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
