“Kushner was going to pursue as his first leadership mark a meeting with the Mexican president, whom his father-in-law had threatened and… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The fact that Trump had become the ultimate avatar of Fox’s angry common man was another sign that we were living in… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
When 'Fire and Fury' came out, I thought Steve Bannon would certainly never speak to me again, and the truth is, he… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
President Donald J Trump and the U.S. media appear now to be split by deep doctrinal differences - of the constitutional crisis… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump often spoke of himself in the third person. Trump did this. The Trumpster did that. So powerful was this persona, or… — Michael Wolff 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
“George W. Bush, on the dais, supplied what seemed likely to become the historic footnote to the Trump address: “That’s some weird… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The greater White House wholly believed that the story was an invented construct of weak if not preposterous narrative threads, with a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon’s strategic view of government was shock and awe. Dominate rather than negotiate. Having daydreamed his way into ultimate bureaucratic power, he… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Having attained the unimaginable—bringing a fierce alt-right, antiliberal ethnopopulism into a central place in the White House—Bannon found himself face to face… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“In this regard, Bannon was not so much an entrepreneur of vision or even business discipline, he was more simply following the… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Convinced he knew the direction of success, keenly aware of his own age and finite opportunities, and—if for no clear reason—seeing himself… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Shortly after eight o’clock that evening, when the unexpected trend—Trump might actually win—seemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“But now there seemed to be a new understanding: Donald Trump believed he had vastly more power, authority, and control than in… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Theory 2: Trump was part of a less-than-blue-chip (much less) international business set, feeding off the rivers of dubious wealth that had… — Michael Wolff 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 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 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
“defiance of law and tone, and everybody’s disbelieving looks, the president seemed intent on surrounding himself in the White House with his… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“But if Halberstam defined the presidential mien, Trump defied it—and defiled it. Not a single attribute would place him credibly in the… — Michael Wolff 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 Copy Share Image
“His sons, Don Jr. and Eric—jokingly behind their backs known to Trump insiders as Uday and Qusay, after the sons of Saddam… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“His was a zero-sum ecosystem. In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had… — Michael Wolff 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
Being the governor of New York is a mighty job because of the city of New York. You would not want to… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“They were all concerned that Trump did not understand what he was up against. That there was simply not enough method to… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Theory 4: But then there was the those-that-know-him-best theory, some version of which most Trumpers would come to embrace. He was just star-fucking.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The unspoken agreement among them: not only would Donald Trump not be president, he should probably not be. Conveniently, the former conviction… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Among Trump’s first moves as president was to have a series of inspirational photographs in the West Wing replaced with images 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
“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
“Bannon averred: “When you take out all the never-Trump guys who signed all those letters and all the neocons who got us… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“But now, the new president-elect—after the most astonishing upset in American history—was on tenterhooks waiting for Murdoch.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the Egyptian strongman, ably stroked the president and said, “You are a unique personality that is capable of doing… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The president himself, absent any organizational rigor, often acted as his own chief of staff, or, in a sense, elevated the press… — 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
