Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian… — 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
“(Almost everybody in the White House followed Trump’s thinking by tracking whom he had called the night before.)” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“While the Trump administration has made hostility to the press a virtual policy, it has also been more open to the media… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Other than Trump himself, Bannon was certainly the oldest inexperienced person ever to work in the White House.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“the organizational premise of the Trump White House: the family would always prevail.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“said the president in his first week in the White House during a late-night call. “It’s all exaggerated. My exaggerations are exaggerated.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“They take everything I’ve ever said and exaggerate it,” said the president in his first week in the White House during a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Why did we do this on a Friday when it would hit the airports hardest and bring out the most protesters? almost… — 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
“Kushner became the representative in the White House of the liberal status quo. He was something like what used to be called… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“By the second week of the Trump presidency, everybody in the White House seemed to be maintaining their own list of likely… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Good management reduces ego. But in the Trump White House, it could often seem that nothing happened, that reality simply did not… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Reince Priebus, getting ready to shift over from the RNC to the White House, noted, with alarm, how often Trump offered people… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“For every member of the White House senior staff this would be the lasting conundrum of dealing with President Trump: the “why”… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the protesters who believed they were seeing the company’s relationship with Trump in political terms were actually seeing this in conventional… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The greater White House wholly believed that the story was an invented construct of weak if not preposterous narrative threads, with a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Walsh, sitting within sight of the Oval Office, was located at something like the ground zero of the information flow between the… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Kushner’s preferred outlet was Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s Morning Joe, one of the president’s certain morning shows. Bannon’s first port of… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Here was yet another battle to be won or lost. Bannon regarded Kushner and Cohn (and Ivanka) as occupying an alternative reality… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The first couple of times when I went to the White House, someone had to say, This is Mick Mulvaney, he’s the… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“She was a nonevent on the campaign. She became a White House staffer and that’s when people suddenly realized she’s dumb as… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Murdoch believed he understood better than younger men, even seventy-year-old Trump, that political power was fleeting. (This was in fact the same… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“During that first month, Walsh’s disbelief and even fear about what was happening in the White House moved her to think about… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“But most of the leaks, certainly the juiciest ones, were coming from the higher-ups—not to mention from the person occupying the topmost… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon, who styled himself as a kind of black hole of silence, had also become a sort of official black-hole voice, everybody’s… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010 established funding for presidential nominees to start the process of vetting thousands of candidates for… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The Oval Office itself had been used by prior occupants as the ultimate power symbol, a ceremonial climax. But as soon as… — 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
“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
“But this sense of duty and virtue involved a complicated calculation about your positive effect on the White House versus its negative… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The president couldn’t stop talking. He was plaintive and self-pitying, and it was obvious to everyone that if he had a north… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The Trump White House stood less for government and the push-pull of competing interests and developing policies, and more, in a brand-savvy… — 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
“Indeed, in his first weeks in the White House, an inattentive Trump was already trying to curtail his schedule of meetings, limit… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“As Walsh saw it, Steve Bannon was running the Steve Bannon White House, Jared Kushner was running the Michael Bloomberg White House,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“If the media, self-righteously, saw it as the Holy Grail and silver bullet of Trump destruction, and the Trump White House saw… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“After the bill had been pulled that Friday, Katie Walsh, feeling both angry and disgusted, told Kushner she wanted out. Outlining what… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“But another likely leak source about his angst in the White House was Trump himself. In his calls throughout the day and… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“On May 17, twelve days after FBI director Comey was fired, without consulting the White House or the attorney general, Rosenstein appointed… — 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
