Trump Campaign Quotes by Michael Wolff

8 Trump Campaign quotes by Michael Wolff

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Wolff’s take on the Trump campaign is sharp and unflinching. This short collection of eight observations offers a quick, candid snapshot of a turbulent political moment.

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“He would come out of this campaign, Trump assured Ailes, with a far more powerful brand and untold opportunities. “This is bigger…

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“The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers.”

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“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…

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“In politics somebody has to lose, but invariably everybody thinks they can win. And you probably can’t win unless you believe that…

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“Political campaigns, substantially based on volunteer help, attract a range of silly, needy, and opportunistic figures. The Trump campaign perhaps scraped lower…

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“The leitmotif for Trump about his own campaign was how crappy it was and how everybody involved in it was a loser.”

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“Time spent with Trump on the campaign plane was often an epic dissing experience: everybody around him was an idiot.”

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“The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers. In that classic, Brooks’s larcenous and…

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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…

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“he could yet make a case for a straight line from Nixon to Trump.”

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“it confirmed Bannon’s worst fear: Trump, in his true heart, was a marshmallow.”

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“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…

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“The candidate who billed himself as a billionaire—ten times over—refused even to invest his own money in it.”

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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…

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“Even though Trump liked to portray his business as an empire, it was actually a discrete holding company and boutique enterprise,”

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“the organizational premise of the Trump White House: the family would always prevail.”

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“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…

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“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…

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“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…

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“Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives into bed.”

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“The kids”—Jared and Ivanka—exhibited an increasingly panicked sense that the FBI and DOJ were moving beyond Russian election interference and into family finances. “Ivanka…

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