“He sent his new press secretary, Sean Spicer—whose personal mantra would shortly become “You can’t make this shit up”—to argue his case… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“success of the speech confirmed the Jared and Ivanka strategy: look for common ground. It also confirmed Ivanka’s understanding of her father:… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“She was a nonevent on the campaign. She became a White House staffer and that’s when people suddenly realized she’s dumb as… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“As Walsh saw it, Steve Bannon was running the Steve Bannon White House, Jared Kushner was running the Michael Bloomberg White House,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The first couple of times when I went to the White House, someone had to say, This is Mick Mulvaney, he’s the… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“And then there was the harsh fact that the world of Manhattan and particular its living voice, the media, seemed to cruelly… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Here was yet another battle to be won or lost. Bannon regarded Kushner and Cohn (and Ivanka) as occupying an alternative reality… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Along with Trump, there are few people, on either the right or the left, who would defend the system. The system is,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Shortly after Lewandowski, with whom Hicks had an on-and-off romantic relationship, was fired in June 2016 for clashing with Trump family members,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Political campaigns, substantially based on volunteer help, attract a range of silly, needy, and opportunistic figures. The Trump campaign perhaps scraped lower… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“He wasn’t serving up these insults for effect—well, not entirely. And his behavior wasn’t carefully calculated; it was tit for tat, and… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Hicks, sponsored by Ivanka and ever loyal to her, was in fact thought of as Trump’s real daughter, while Ivanka was thought… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Not taking off his dark overcoat, lending him quite a hulking gangster look, pacing in front of the CIA’s wall of stars… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump’s extemporaneous moments were always existential, but more so for his aides than for him. He spoke obliviously and happily, believing himself… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Early on, before getting down to attacking each other, Bannon and Kushner were united in their separate offensives against Priebus. Kushner’s preferred… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Sean Spicer, whose job was literally to explain what people did and why, often simply could not—because nobody really had a job,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Once, coming back on his plane with a billionaire friend who had brought along a foreign model, Trump, trying to move in… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“His departure would return the Trump organization to pure family control—the family and its functionaries, without an internal rival for brand meaning… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“How’s the kid?” asked Ailes, referring to Trump’s son-in-law and paramount political adviser, thirty-six-year-old Jared Kushner. “He’s my partner,” said Bannon, his… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“But this sense of duty and virtue involved a complicated calculation about your positive effect on the White House versus its negative… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“He would come out of this campaign, Trump assured Ailes, with a far more powerful brand and untold opportunities. “This is bigger… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“It’s worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns. Trump won’t read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers;… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“How’s the kid?” asked Ailes, referring to Trump’s son-in-law and paramount political adviser, thirty-six-year-old Jared Kushner. “He’s my partner,” said Bannon, his… — 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
