“The unspoken agreement among them: not only would Donald Trump not be president, he should probably not be.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“the organizational premise of the Trump White House: the family would always prevail.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“based on conversations that took place over a period of eighteen months with the president,” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon, with mounting ferocity and pubic venom, could abide them less and less every day.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The daughter will take down the father,” said Bannon, in a Shakespearian mood.” — 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
“it confirmed Bannon’s worst fear: Trump, in his true heart, was a marshmallow.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
It's not implausible that Donald Trump could have been a successful President. — 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 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… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump didn't read. He didn't really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist...He was postliterate -- total… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Lewandowski and Hope Hicks, the PR aide put on the campaign by Ivanka Trump, had an affair that ended in a public… — 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… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon invariably found some reason to study papers in the corner and then to have a last word; Priebus kept his eye… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The charge that Trump colluded with the Russians to win the election, which he scoffed at, was, in the estimation of some… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump problem. He hopelessly personalized everything. He saw the world in commercial and show business terms: someone else was always trying to… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“While nobody would ever say Trump was sensitive when it came to women, he had many views about how to get along… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump craved media approval. But, as Bannon emphasized, he was never going to get the facts right, nor was he ever going… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“With his misspellings and his use of 1970s lingo—“wire tapping” called up an image of FBI agents crouched in a van on… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Kushner, in fact, now believed Bannon would do anything to destroy them. This was personal. After months of defending Bannon against liberal… — Michael Wolff 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 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 Copy Share Image
“In the early days of Trump’s presidency, the situation seemed clear to everybody: three men were fighting to run the White House,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“He was a rebel, a disruptor, and, living outside the rules, contemptuous of them. A close Trump friend who was also a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The president couldn’t stop talking. He was plaintive and self-pitying, and it was obvious to everyone that if he had a north… — Michael Wolff 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
“The three senior guys in the campaign,” an incredulous Bannon went on, “thought it was a good idea to meet with a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Christie had sent Jared’s father, Charles Kushner, to jail in 2005. Charlie Kushner, pursued by the feds for an income tax cheat,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“On the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Kellyanne Conway—Donald Trump’s campaign manager and a central, indeed starring, personality of Trumpworld—settled into her… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“One instance of his revisionism, and of the new stature he now seemed to assume as president, involved the lowest point of… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010 established funding for presidential nominees to start the process of vetting thousands of candidates for… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The Oval Office itself had been used by prior occupants as the ultimate power symbol, a ceremonial climax. But as soon as… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“To Trump, he was just up against Sally Yates, who was, he steamed, “such a cunt.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The first woman president, Ivanka entertained, would not be Hillary Clinton, it would be Ivanka Trump.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist.” — 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
“Trump added another tic, a lifelong sense that people were constantly taking unfair advantage of him.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon was making his first official pubic appearance of the Trump presidency,” — 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
