“He’s not only crazy,” declared Tom Barrack to a friend, “he’s stupid.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon had promised to come to this small dinner arranged by mutual friends in a Greenwich Village town house to see Roger… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump would shortly become a Gorsuch fan. But before settling on Gorsuch, he wondered why the job wasn’t going to a friend… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“He just keeps going,” Ailes had marveled to a friend after the first debate with Hillary Clinton. “You hit Donald along the… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Shortly after eight o’clock that evening, when the unexpected trend—Trump might actually win—seemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Jared Kushner in quite a short period of time—rather less than a year—had crossed over from the standard Democratic view in which… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“But Thiel, who gave a speech supporting Trump at the Republican Convention in Cleveland, reported back that, even having been forewarned, he… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“While nobody would ever say Trump was sensitive when it came to women, he had many views about how to get along… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Once, coming back on his plane with a billionaire friend who had brought along a foreign model, Trump, trying to move in… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump’s understanding of his own essential nature was even more precise. Once, coming back on his plane with a billionaire friend who… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“A close Trump friend who was also a good Bill Clinton friend found them eerily similar—except that Clinton had a respectable front… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“And it was not only calls from friends worried about him, but staffers calling people to call him and say Simmer down.… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives into bed. In… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“What’s more, Trump was receiving the censure of his friends, too. And it was not only calls from friends worried about him,… — 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
