“The campaign staff, now suddenly in a position to snag West Wing jobs—career- and history-making jobs—had to see this odd, difficult, even… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
During my many hours on the Acela, I have taken to watching 'The West Wing,' Aaron Sorkin's drama of an idealised White… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“There was, curiously, general agreement in the West Wing that Donald Trump, the media president, had one of the most dysfunctional communication… — 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
“Among Trump’s first moves as president was to have a series of inspirational photographs in the West Wing replaced with images of… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“if something happened and he wasn’t present, he didn’t care about it and barely recognized it. His response then was often just… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“From the Bannon side, Pence garnered only contempt. “Pence is like the husband in Ozzie and Harriet, a nonevent,” said one Bannonite.… — 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
“The face-off quickly escalated into an existential confrontation between the two sides of the White House—two sides on a total war footing.… — 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
