“He’s not only crazy,” declared Tom Barrack to a friend, “he’s stupid.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump, a man whose many neuroses included a horror of forgetfulness or senility,” — Michael Wolff Neuroses Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump, whose cruelties, always great even when they were casual, were unbearable when he truly turned against you.” — Michael Wolff Cruelties Copy Share Image
“Trump, said Bannon, noting the obvious, was the least disciplined man in politics.” — Michael Wolff Politics Copy Share Image
“It didn't exactly surprise Bannon when Trump flipped; Bannon understood how easy it was to bullshit a bullshitter.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Politics is ultimately not that complicated a profession; it's where the mediocre distinguish themselves. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump quite profoundly seemed unable to distinguish between his political advantage and his personal needs—he thought emotionally, not strategically.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“There are few modern political variables more disruptive than a dedicated prosecutor” — 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
“Trade it out so in the end everyone got something, and the better dealmaker got a little more.” — Michael Wolff Trade Copy Share Image
“Cohn’s derisive contempt for Kushner as well as the president was even greater. In return, the president heaped more abuse on Cohn—the… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Murdoch suggested that taking a liberal approach to H-1B visas might be hard to square with his immigration promises. But Trump seemed… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Brexit and Trump had upended the fundamental establishment viewpoint that politics was aspirational, that good politics promised progress, generational betterment and ever-expanding… — Michael Wolff Brexit Copy Share Image
One of the frustrations of the Republicans is that they have been mostly unsuccessful in equating the word Clinton with Mafia, which,… — Michael Wolff Democracy Copy Share Image
“on the most basic level, Trump just did not, as Spicer later put it, give a fuck. You could tell him whatever… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Rusbridger had risen at the Guardian through the years when it not only had the support and fail-safe mechanism of the Scott… — Michael Wolff Advertising Copy Share Image
“He knew where this Russia stuff was coming from, and if these Obama people thought they were going to get away with… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump was a step up—and early in the 2016 race, Trump became the Breitbart totem. (Many of Trump’s positions in the… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“It’s worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns. Trump won’t read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers;… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“He would come out of this campaign, Trump assured Ailes, with a far more powerful brand and untold opportunities. “This is bigger… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“How’s the kid?” asked Ailes, referring to Trump’s son-in-law and paramount political adviser, thirty-six-year-old Jared Kushner. “He’s my partner,” said Bannon, his… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“He had somehow won the race for president, but his brain seemed incapable of performing what would be essential tasks in his… — Michael Wolff Cause and effect 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
“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
“This was his fundamental innovation in governing: regular, uncontrolled bursts of anger and spleen.” — Michael Wolff Anger Copy Share Image
“He answered emails in one word—partly a paranoia about email, but even more a controlling crypticness.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“He’s a guy who really hated school,” said Bannon. “And he’s not going to start liking it now.” — Michael Wolff School Copy Share Image
The Clintons are one of the most closed political organisations operating in America today. It is a kind of secret society. — Michael Wolff America Copy Share Image
The hold on power always ends. While death will surely break it, someone else usually grabs it before then. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
If institutions don't grow, they... well, I don't know what happens to them, because they always grow. I suppose the point is… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Dina relied on Ivanka to offer regular assurances that not everyone named Trump was completely crazy.” — Michael Wolff Confidence Copy Share Image
One of the great business virtues of high publishing was that it was a difficult business to enter. You had to stand… — Michael Wolff Business Copy Share Image
“Trump added another tic, a lifelong sense that people were constantly taking unfair advantage of him.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The leitmotif for Trump about his own campaign was how crappy it was and how everybody involved in it was a loser.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“It’s just a conspiracy theory.” And, he added, the Trump team wasn’t capable of conspiring about anything.” — Michael Wolff Conspiracy Copy Share Image
“As for the looming defeat itself, she shrugged it off: it was Reince Priebus’s fault, not hers.” — Michael Wolff Defeat Copy Share Image
“This was why he had so naturally cottoned to the “fake news” label. “I’ve made stuff up forever, and they always print… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
