“there was another rationalization: Trump was “inspirational not operational.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Trump loves the media. Trump understands the power it has and, accordingly, loves the people who have media power. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump did not enjoy his own inauguration. He had hoped for a big blowout.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump, a man whose many neuroses included a horror of forgetfulness or senility,” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“What is this ‘white trash’?” asked the model. “They’re people just like me,” said Trump, “only they’re poor.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“If the new right had elected Trump, it was the older Fortune 100 executives who most pleased him” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“With the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017, the United States entered the eye of the most extraordinary political storm… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“the world needs borders—or the world should return to a time when it had borders. When America was great. Trump had become… — 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 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
“Offering forceful and dire warnings, Bannon told the president: “This Russian story is a third-tier story, but you fire Comey and it’ll… — Michael Wolff 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
Trump is a man who, for better or worse, stands in opposition to the institutions that dominate American political life. — 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
More than any other president, save perhaps John F Kennedy, whose father ran a film studio, and Ronald Reagan, a leading man… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Indeed, while everybody in his rich-guy social circle knew about his wide-ranging ignorance—Trump, the businessman, could not even read a balance sheet,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump talked nonstop and constantly repeated himself. “Here’s the deal,” a close Trump associate told Priebus. “In an hour meeting with him… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“In a continuing sign of Trump’s Rashomon effect—his speeches inspiring joy or horror—witnesses would describe his reception at the CIA as either… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump’s wounded feelings—his sense of being shunned and unloved on the very day he became president—helped send that message. When he came… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“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
“When he came off the podium after delivering his address, he kept repeating, “Nobody will forget this speech.” George W. Bush, on… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Operatives knew the game, and so did most candidates and officeholders. But Ailes was pretty sure Trump did not.Trump was undisciplined—he had… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“The fabulous, incomprehensible irony that the Trump family had, despite the media’s distaste, despite everything the media knows and understands and has… — 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
“Bannon’s entire political career, such as it was, had been in political media. It was also in Internet media—that is, media ruled… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“It was during Trump’s early intelligence briefings, held soon after he captured the nomination, that alarm signals first went off among his… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Previous presidents, and not just Clinton, have of course lacked scruples. What was, to many of the people who knew Trump well,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Here was, arguably, the central issue of the Trump presidency, informing every aspect of Trumpian policy and leadership: he didn’t process information… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump usually avoided: he had no interest in personnel problems, since they put the emphasis on other people.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“But Ailes was convinced that Trump had no political beliefs or backbone.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon finally arrived. Wearing a disheveled blazer, his signature pairing of two shirts,” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
I mean, can Donald Trump get elected again in 2020 without Steve Bannon? I would say no. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
All politicians, no matter how gifted, ultimately depend on circumstances for their success. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
A President of the United States cannot restrain anything from publication. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“You could hardly find an entity more at odds with military discipline than a Trump organization.” — 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 Image
“it confirmed Bannon’s worst fear: Trump, in his true heart, was a marshmallow.” — Michael Wolff 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 for a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The candidate who billed himself as a billionaire—ten times over—refused even to invest his own money in it.” — 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 that we… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“the organizational premise of the Trump White House: the family would always prevail.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
