“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 Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump, whose cruelties, always great even when they were casual, were unbearable when he truly turned against you.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Finally, it was the right-wing diva and Trump supporter Ann Coulter who took the president-elect aside and said, “Nobody is apparently telling… — 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
“Bypassing lawyers, regulators, and the agencies and personnel responsible for enforcing it, President Trump—with Bannon’s low, intense voice behind him, offering a… — 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
“After the bill had been pulled that Friday, Katie Walsh, feeling both angry and disgusted, told Kushner she wanted out. Outlining what… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“It was the first presidential instance of what the campaign regulars had learned over many months: on the most basic level, Trump… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump believed he had vastly more power, authority, and control than in fact he had, and he believed his talent for… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“(Many of Trump’s positions in the campaign were taken from the Breitbart articles he had printed out for him.) Indeed, Bannon began… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Scaramucci also took on Steve Bannon: “I’m not Steve Bannon. I’m not trying to suck my own cock.” (In fact, Bannon learned… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“For whatever reason, almost everyone I contacted—senior members of the White House staff as well as dedicated observers of it—shared large amounts… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“And yet, the larger truth was that Ivanka’s relationship with her father was in no way a conventional family relationship. If it… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon described Trump as a simple machine. The On switch was full of flattery, the Off switch full of calumny. The flattery… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers. In that classic, Brooks’s larcenous and… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Just doing things became a Bannon principle, the sweeping antidote to bureaucratic and establishment ennui and resistance. It was the chaos of… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“It was an operatic unraveling. So mortifying was this development that when Reince Priebus, the RNC head, was called to New York… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Of the many Trump gashes in modern major-power governing, you could certainly drive a Trojan horse through his lack of foreign policy… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump did not enjoy his own inauguration. He had hoped for a big blowout. Tom Barrack, the would-be showman—in addition to Michael… — 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… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Here was a perfect example of an essential Trump paradigm: he acceded to anyone who seemed to know more about any issue… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Hence, within twenty-four hours of the inauguration, the president had invented a million or so people who did not exist. He sent… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Politics had seemed to become, even well before the age of Trump, a mortal affair. It was now zero-sum: When one side… — 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
“elected because of those conflicts—his business savvy, connections, experience, and brand—not in spite of them, and that it was ludicrous for anyone… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“But when he was the federal prosecutor in New Jersey, Christie had sent Jared’s father, Charles Kushner, to jail in 2005. Charlie… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“In 2014, when he first seriously began to consider running for president, Melania was one of the few who thought it was… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Here’s the deal,” a close Trump associate told Priebus. “In an hour meeting with him you’re going to hear fifty-four minutes of… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon, Conway, and Hicks—along with an assortment of more or less peculiar ideologues that had attached themselves to Trump and, of course,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump liked to portray his business as an empire, it was actually a discrete holding company and boutique enterprise, catering more to… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“It's worse than you can imagine. An idiot (Trump) surrounded by clowns. Trump won't read anything - not one-page memos, not the… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“virtually the entire senior staff and cabinet of the Trump presidency, past and present, had traveled through the stages of adventure, challenge,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon was curiously able to embrace Trump while at the same time suggesting he did not take him entirely seriously. He had… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“To everyone working in media in New York, Donald Trump represented the ultimate shame of working in media in New York: you… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Not only did the president-elect wear his deep and bitter grievances on his sleeve, but it was now clear that the fact… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Later that evening, a concert at the Lincoln Memorial, part of an always awkward effort to import pop culture to Washington, ended… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump, the unserious candidate, had, however incomprehensibly, become a more or less serious one. And somehow, because of his prior unseriousness, and… — 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… — 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 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
