“There was now a fair amount of back-of-the-classroom giggling about who had called Trump what. For Steve Mnuchin and Reince Priebus, he… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Here's a certainty: When you play out your personal dramas, hurt and self-interest in the media, it's a confection. You say what… — Michael Wolff Certainty 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 Politics Copy Share Image
Unlike financial impropriety, which needs to be proven, a charge of sexual loutishness and aggressiveness in and of itself can finish you… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“After all, Ailes was perhaps the person most responsible for unleashing the angry-man currents of Trump’s victory: he had invented the right-wing… — Michael Wolff Right wing Copy Share Image
Indeed, Rusbridger has finessed for the Guardian a certain willing suspension of disbelief and is able to credibly maintain conceits and moral… — Michael Wolff Guardian Copy Share Image
“If he was not having his six-thirty dinner with Steve Bannon, then, more to his liking, he was in bed by that… — 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… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Hence, within twenty-four hours of the inauguration, the president had invented a million or so people who did not exist. He sent… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Political campaigns, substantially based on volunteer help, attract a range of silly, needy, and opportunistic figures. The Trump campaign perhaps scraped lower… — Michael Wolff Politics Copy Share Image
“Shortly after Lewandowski, with whom Hicks had an on-and-off romantic relationship, was fired in June 2016 for clashing with Trump family members,… — Michael Wolff Family members Copy Share Image
“At points on the day’s spectrum of adverse political developments, he could have moments of, almost everyone would admit, irrationality. When that… — Michael Wolff Hicks Copy Share Image
“Here was a perfect example of an essential Trump paradigm: he acceded to anyone who seemed to know more about any issue… — Michael Wolff Health care Copy Share Image
“An important aspect of Kaplan’s New York Observer and its self-conscious inside media baseball was that the paper became the prime school… — Michael Wolff Face value Copy Share Image
“Bannon was curiously able to embrace Trump while at the same time suggesting he did not take him entirely seriously. He had… — Michael Wolff First met Copy Share Image
“Just doing things became a Bannon principle, the sweeping antidote to bureaucratic and establishment ennui and resistance. It was the chaos of… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“In an age when all successful political candidates are surrounded by, if not at the beck and call of, difficult, even sociopathic,… — Michael Wolff Rich people Copy Share Image
“Although the Republicans in the 2018 congressional races were looking, according to Bannon’s numbers, at a 15-point deficit, it was Bannon’s belief… — Michael Wolff Republicans Copy Share Image
“Later that evening, a concert at the Lincoln Memorial, part of an always awkward effort to import pop culture to Washington, ended… — Michael Wolff Lincoln memorial Copy Share Image
“Trump, the unserious candidate, had, however incomprehensibly, become a more or less serious one. And somehow, because of his prior unseriousness, and… — Michael Wolff Beauty Copy Share Image
“the central issue of the Trump presidency, informing every aspect of Trumpian policy and leadership: he didn’t process information in any conventional… — Michael Wolff Leadership Copy Share Image
“Salesmen, whose primary characteristic and main asset is their ability to keep selling, constantly recast the world in positive terms. Discouragement for… — Michael Wolff Customer Copy Share Image
“this was another—and to some quite the ultimate—example of how difficult it was for the president to function in a literal, definitional,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
The rise of Donald Trump established a new ground zero for liberal media, requiring no pretence of balance - better yet, with… — Michael Wolff Balance Copy Share Image
“His strategic belief was that there was no reason not to heap excessive puffery on a prospect. But if the prospect was… — Michael Wolff Faith Copy Share Image
“To everyone working in media in New York, Donald Trump represented the ultimate shame of working in media in New York: you… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Two opposite and instructive figures in U.S. journalism during the Trump years are Gerard Baker, editor of the Wall Street Journal, and… — Michael Wolff Journalism 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 Communication Copy Share Image
“When the president got on the phone after dinner, it was often a rambling affair. In paranoid or sadistic fashion, he’d speculate… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The organization therefore needed a set of internal rationalizations that would allow it to trust a man who, while he knew little,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The real question, of course, was how Bannon, the fuck-the-system populist, had ever come to think that he might get along with… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Not only did the president-elect wear his deep and bitter grievances on his sleeve, but it was now clear that the fact… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Finally, there was a new rationale that Flynn should be fired not because of his Russian contacts, but because he had lied… — Michael Wolff Chain of command Copy Share Image
“A small man with a Mr. Magoo stature and an old-fashioned Southern accent, Sessions was bitterly mocked by the president, who drew… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
I have never heard the word brand used so often as I did around The Guardian. Brand was the magical word, particularly… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“It's worse than you can imagine. An idiot (Trump) surrounded by clowns. Trump won't read anything - not one-page memos, not the… — 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 Habits Copy Share Image
“Trump didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist. Some believed that for… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon, Conway, and Hicks—along with an assortment of more or less peculiar ideologues that had attached themselves to Trump and, of course,… — Michael Wolff Family Copy Share Image
“alarm signals first went off among his new campaign staff: he seemed to lack the ability to take in third-party information. Or… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
