“he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.” — Michael Wolff Goals Copy Share Image
“As often as not, he surprised himself. “What did I say?” he would ask after getting severe blowback.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Rebekah took a helicopter from their Long Island estate out to a scheduled fundraiser—with” — Michael Wolff Fundraiser Copy Share Image
“One day, when Kushner accused Walsh of leaking about him, she challenged him back: “My phone records versus yours, my email versus… — 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
“You could tell him whatever you wanted, but he knew what he knew, and if what you said contradicted what he knew,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump’s repeated brags about his relationship with Vladimir Putin and the nature of Trump’s relationship with the Kremlin.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Several decades as a grasping entrepreneur without a satisfying success story doesn’t smooth the hustle in hustler.” — Michael Wolff Business Copy Share Image
“just when you felt on top of the world in the Trump administration, you could probably count on getting cut down. That… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump was the one variable that, in management terms, simply could not be controlled. He was like a recalcitrant two-year-old. If you… — Michael Wolff Control Copy Share Image
“Kushner had his personal press operation and Bannon had his. The leaking culture had become so open and overt—most of the time… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump was not a politician who could parse factions of support and opprobrium; he was a salesman who needed to make a… — Michael Wolff Politics Copy Share Image
“But Ailes was convinced that Trump had no political beliefs or backbone. The fact that Trump had become the ultimate avatar of… — Michael Wolff Common man Copy Share Image
Cable television is basically now the business of former political professionals. Joe Scarborough, a former Florida Congressman, is a far more successful… — Michael Wolff Business Copy Share Image
“The Mexican president refused to construct a pretense for paying for the wall, a pretense that might have redounded to his vast… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“This was the peculiar and haunting consensus—not that Trump was guilty of all that he was accused of, but that he was… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“His son-in-law and daughter hoped—they were even confident—that they could speak to DJT’s better self, or at least balance Republican needs with… — Michael Wolff Children 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
“There was, in the space of little more than an hour, in Steve Bannon’s not unamused observation, a befuddled Trump morphing into… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The media, adopting a “shocked, shocked” morality, could not fathom how being factually wrong was not an absolute ending in itself. How… — Michael Wolff False witness Copy Share Image
“The next day Kellyanne Conway, her aggressive posture during the campaign turning more and more to petulance and self-pity, asserted the new… — Michael Wolff Fake news 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 Marriage Copy Share Image
“The point was, there didn’t need to be an answer because he wasn’t going to be president. Trump’s longtime friend Roger Ailes… — Michael Wolff Great future 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 Habits Copy Share Image
“There are few modern political variables more disruptive than a dedicated prosecutor” — 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
“It didn't exactly surprise Bannon when Trump flipped; Bannon understood how easy it was to bullshit a bullshitter.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump, said Bannon, noting the obvious, was the least disciplined man in politics.” — Michael Wolff Politics 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
“Bannon learned about the piece when fact-checkers from the magazine called him for comment about Scaramucci’s accusation that he sucked his own… — 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 Management Copy Share Image
“The president did not truly listen to anybody. The more you talked, the less he listened.” — Michael Wolff Communication 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
“He answered emails in one word—partly a paranoia about email, but even more a controlling crypticness.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“This was his fundamental innovation in governing: regular, uncontrolled bursts of anger and spleen.” — Michael Wolff Anger 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
“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
“you don’t really have to know all that much yourself; you just do it differently than it was done before.” — 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
