Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W Bush (and, in their image, Tony Blair) bitterly annoyed their antagonists because they were -… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“For Walsh, it was a daily process of managing an impossible task: almost as soon as she received direction from one of… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Steve Bannon was running the Steve Bannon White House, Jared Kushner was running the Michael Bloomberg White House, and Reince Priebus was… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
What's wrong with politics in the celebrity billionaire analysis is politicians. Populism is not so much a cry for economic equality, or… — Michael Wolff Economic equality Copy Share Image
“Frank Sinatra was wrong,” said David Bossie, one of Trump’s longtime political advisers. “If you can make it in New York, you… — 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
“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 Chief of staff Copy Share Image
“Others were now recruited and, despite their obvious impressions of the man, agreed to sign on. Jim Mattis, a retired four-star general,… — Michael Wolff Armed forces 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 Time Copy Share Image
“Each of these interlocutors provided Kushner with something of a tutorial on the limitations of presidential power—that Washington was as much designed… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump’s extemporaneous moments were always existential, but more so for his aides than for him. He spoke obliviously and happily, believing himself… — Michael Wolff Clear direction Copy Share Image
“Early on, before getting down to attacking each other, Bannon and Kushner were united in their separate offensives against Priebus. Kushner’s preferred… — Michael Wolff Cell phone 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 Credibility Copy Share Image
“Not taking off his dark overcoat, lending him quite a hulking gangster look, pacing in front of the CIA’s wall of stars… — Michael Wolff American president Copy Share Image
“He sent his new press secretary, Sean Spicer—whose personal mantra would shortly become “You can’t make this shit up”—to argue his case… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump, despite his disappointment at Washington’s failure to properly greet and celebrate him, was, like a good salesman, an optimist. Salesmen, whose… — Michael Wolff Failure 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 Friendship 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 Friendship Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump believed he had vastly more power, authority, and control than in fact he had, and he believed his talent for… — 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
“If the Trump White House was as unsettling as any in American history, the president’s views of foreign policy and the world… — Michael Wolff American history 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 Political power Copy Share Image
“One particularly profitable transaction with the president was to bring him new, ever harsher criticism of his chief strategist, or reports of… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Then he imposed a set of new rules: nobody touch anything, especially not his toothbrush. (He had a longtime fear of being… — Michael Wolff Fear Copy Share Image
“Bob Woodward’s 1994 book, The Agenda, is a blow-by-blow account of the first eighteen months of the Clinton White House, most of… — Michael Wolff Time Copy Share Image
“Against this background (North Korea missile threats), almost no one paid attention to the announcement by the Trump supporter and American neo-Nazi… — Michael Wolff North korea Copy Share Image
“Bannon didn’t much question Donald Trump’s bona fides, or behavior, or electability, because, in part, Trump was just his latest rich man.… — Michael Wolff Rich man Copy Share Image
“I now understand what it is like to be in the court of the Tudors,” reflected Bannon. On the campaign trail, he… — Michael Wolff Best friend Copy Share Image
“The information he did not get was formal information. The data. The details. The options. The analysis. He didn’t do PowerPoint. For… — Michael Wolff Education Copy Share Image
“What was, to many of the people who knew Trump well, much more confounding was that he had managed to win this… — Michael Wolff Cause and effect 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 Chief of staff 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
“Bannon veered from “Mad Dog” Mattis—the retired four-star general whom Trump had nominated as secretary of defense—to a long riff on torture,… — Michael Wolff National security Copy Share Image
“In 2014, when he first seriously began to consider running for president, Melania was one of the few who thought it was… — Michael Wolff Children Copy Share Image
“His callers, largely because they found his conversation peculiar, alarming, or completely contrary to reason and common sense, often overrode what they… — Michael Wolff Communication 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 Friendship Copy Share Image
“elected because of those conflicts—his business savvy, connections, experience, and brand—not in spite of them, and that it was ludicrous for anyone… — Michael Wolff Business Copy Share Image
“D.C. area colleges being among the most reliable feeders of swamp talent (government is not really an Ivy League profession). Most government… — Michael Wolff Ivy league 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 Friendship Copy Share Image
“But one clear difference was that he had acquired almost no formal sort of social discipline—he could not even attempt to imitate… — Michael Wolff Conversation Copy Share Image
