---
title: "83 Trump Quotes By Joshua Green"
description: "83 Trump quotes by Joshua Green. Plus more from Joshua Green and more Trump sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5b/joshua-green-3819_mitt-romney_stuart-stevens-who-ran-mitt-romney-s-201_443584.jpg"
---

> [“Stuart Stevens, who ran Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. “Trump is a nut, and he likes to surround himself with nuts. It’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/stuart-stevens-who-ran-mitt-romney-s-2012-presidential-campaign-trump/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5b/joshua-green-3819_mitt-romney_stuart-stevens-who-ran-mitt-romney-s-201_443584.jpg)

> [“At heart, Trump is an opportunist driven by a desire for public acclaim, rather than a politician with any fixed principles.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/at-heart-trump-is-an-opportunist-driven-by-a-desire-for-public/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a24/joshua-green-3819_quote_at-heart-trump-is-an-opportunist-driven_886396.jpg)

> [“Trump’s data analysts gave them a nickname: “double haters.” These were people who disliked both candidates but traditionally showed up at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/trump-s-data-analysts-gave-them-a-nickname-double-haters-these-were/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/748/joshua-green-3819_haters_trump-s-data-analysts-gave-them-a-nickna_407890.jpg)

> [“Bannon’s a political entrepreneur and a remarkable bloke,” Farage said. “Without the supportive voice of Breitbart London, I’m not sure we would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/bannon-s-a-political-entrepreneur-and-a-remarkable-bloke-farage-said/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbe/joshua-green-3819_business_bannon-s-a-political-entrepreneur-and-a_158392.jpg)

> [“Essentially, they understood Trump’s pursuit of the presidency to be a revenge fantasy exacted upon his tormentors to establish, with sweeping certainty,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/essentially-they-understood-trump-s-pursuit-of-the-presidency-to-be-a/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b85/joshua-green-3819_quote_essentially-they-understood-trump-s-purs_947515.jpg)

> [“by installing Bannon, Conway, and later Bossie, Trump was handing the reins of a half-billion-dollar political enterprise to a seasoned team of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/by-installing-bannon-conway-and-later-bossie-trump-was-handing-the-2/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/681/joshua-green-3819_business_by-installing-bannon-conway-and-later-bo_2919974.jpg)

> [“He knew who his audience was going to be—it was not going to be people who want to have policy debates. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/he-knew-who-his-audience-was-going-to-be-it-was-not-going-to-be/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa9/joshua-green-3819_older-people_he-knew-who-his-audience-was-going-to-be_1967101.jpg)

> [“Manafort’s ouster extinguished the last vestige of hope for Republicans praying that Trump would at last pivot to a more statesmanlike approach.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/manafort-s-ouster-extinguished-the-last-vestige-of-hope-for/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e76/joshua-green-3819_hope_manafort-s-ouster-extinguished-the-last_1036957.jpg)

> [“It fed his grandiose sense of purpose to imagine that he was amassing an army of ragged, pitchfork-wielding outsiders to storm the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/it-fed-his-grandiose-sense-of-purpose-to-imagine-that-he-was-amassing/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dce/joshua-green-3819_trump_it-fed-his-grandiose-sense-of-purpose-to_7367.jpg)

> [“Trump grew incensed at the popular notion that Bannon was the one really running the show—that he was, as an infamous Time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/trump-grew-incensed-at-the-popular-notion-that-bannon-was-the-one/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73a/joshua-green-3819_great-man_trump-grew-incensed-at-the-popular-notio_2935135.jpg)

> [“By the time Trump arrived at his next event, in Lisbon, Maine, he had hit upon an even better sound bite to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/by-the-time-trump-arrived-at-his-next-event-in-lisbon-maine-he-had/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a39/joshua-green-3819_time_by-the-time-trump-arrived-at-his-next-ev_1184939.jpg)

> [“early the next morning, he jetted off to Washington, D.C., where the comedian Seth Meyers was going to emcee the Correspondents’ Dinner.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/early-the-next-morning-he-jetted-off-to-washington-d-c-where-the/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87b/joshua-green-3819_white-house_early-the-next-morning-he-jetted-off-to_551822.jpg)

> [“they kept asking him about immigration. That opened his eyes.” The issue also dovetailed with Trump’s long-held view that the United States…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/they-kept-asking-him-about-immigration-that-opened-his-eyes-the-issue/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59b/joshua-green-3819_immigration_they-kept-asking-him-about-immigration-t_2515054.jpg)

> [“As he broadcast his birther charge against Obama, Nielsen ratings for The Celebrity Apprentice took a sharp turn for the worse. “Given…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/as-he-broadcast-his-birther-charge-against-obama-nielsen-ratings-for/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a61/joshua-green-3819_quote_as-he-broadcast-his-birther-charge-again_2188882.jpg)

> [“Ever since The New York Times broke the news on March 2, 2015, that Clinton used a personal e-mail account and private…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/ever-since-the-new-york-times-broke-the-news-on-march-2-2015-that/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54a/joshua-green-3819_york-times_ever-since-the-new-york-times-broke-the_1014321.jpg)

> [“White audiences, along with everybody else, tuned in to watch Trump—but either they didn’t particularly like him or they simply loved to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/white-audiences-along-with-everybody-else-tuned-in-to-watch-trump-but/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/066/joshua-green-3819_quote_white-audiences-along-with-everybody-els_1175363.jpg)

> [“salesman and turned to politics to feed his family). . . . Businessmen are accustomed to taking risk, however business risk is often partially assigned,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/salesman-and-turned-to-politics-to-feed-his-family-businessmen-are/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c3/joshua-green-3819_family_salesman-and-turned-to-politics-to-feed_2301020.jpg)

> [“Inside Trump’s circle, the power of illegal immigration to manipulate popular sentiment was readily apparent, and his advisers brainstormed methods for keeping…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/inside-trump-s-circle-the-power-of-illegal-immigration-to-manipulate/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed3/joshua-green-3819_illegal-immigration_inside-trump-s-circle-the-power-of-illeg_870137.jpg)

> [“Any study of Trump’s rise to the presidency is therefore unavoidably a study of Bannon, too. It’s a story Trump won’t like,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/any-study-of-trump-s-rise-to-the-presidency-is-therefore-unavoidably/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c2/joshua-green-3819_education_any-study-of-trump-s-rise-to-the-preside_3178685.jpg)

> [“To all outward appearances, Trump had just been brutally dispatched—his dignity snatched away from him, his foray into politics swiftly cut short,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/to-all-outward-appearances-trump-had-just-been-brutally-dispatched/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62b/joshua-green-3819_politics_to-all-outward-appearances-trump-had-jus_2944488.jpg)

> [“He went on to make a series of preposterous-sounding claims—almost all of which would be borne out in the end: he would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/he-went-on-to-make-a-series-of-preposterous-sounding-claims-almost/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/joshua-green-3819_african-american_he-went-on-to-make-a-series-of-preposter_278454.jpg)

> [“The next day, Ailes called back, less sure of himself. He had tried calling the elder Murdoch, who was vacationing with his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/the-next-day-ailes-called-back-less-sure-of-himself-he-had-tried/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/524/joshua-green-3819_next-day_the-next-day-ailes-called-back-less-sure_2187629.jpg)

> [“by installing Bannon, Conway, and later Bossie, Trump was handing the reins of a half-billion-dollar political enterprise to a seasoned team of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/by-installing-bannon-conway-and-later-bossie-trump-was-handing-the/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b0/joshua-green-3819_business_by-installing-bannon-conway-and-later-bo_1191901.jpg)

> [“Trump was holding massive rallies in places like Alabama, which was bizarre according to conventional wisdom. Most reporters considered them an exercise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/trump-was-holding-massive-rallies-in-places-like-alabama-which-was/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bb/joshua-green-3819_conventional-wisdom_trump-was-holding-massive-rallies-in-pla_2606427.jpg)

> [“Manafort’s ouster extinguished the last vestige of hope for Republicans praying that Trump would at last pivot to a more statesmanlike approach.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/manafort-s-ouster-extinguished-the-last-vestige-of-hope-for-2/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f8/joshua-green-3819_democracy_manafort-s-ouster-extinguished-the-last_1255495.jpg)

> [“As devious as this plot was, it could never have succeeded to the degree that it did had Clinton not abetted it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/as-devious-as-this-plot-was-it-could-never-have-succeeded-to-the/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bf/joshua-green-3819_north-korea_as-devious-as-this-plot-was-it-could-nev_3043493.jpg)

> [“From a raw political standpoint, Trump’s decision to adopt a set of views that offended and alienated minority voters, ugly though it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/from-a-raw-political-standpoint-trump-s-decision-to-adopt-a-set-of/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b9/joshua-green-3819_chief-of-staff_from-a-raw-political-standpoint-trump-s_447984.jpg)

> [“Ailes dispatched his personal lawyer, Peter Johnson, Jr., to the Breitbart Embassy in Washington, D.C., to deliver a personal message to Bannon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/ailes-dispatched-his-personal-lawyer-peter-johnson-jr-to-the/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3b/joshua-green-3819_fox-news_ailes-dispatched-his-personal-lawyer-pet_2332464.jpg)

> [“the negative coverage of Bannon and Trump and their relationship to the alt-right carried on for weeks. It was a subject any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/the-negative-coverage-of-bannon-and-trump-and-their-relationship-to/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f90/joshua-green-3819_sexual-assault_the-negative-coverage-of-bannon-and-trum_905744.jpg)

> [“Bannon thrived on the chaos he created and did everything he could to make it spread. When he finally made his way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/bannon-thrived-on-the-chaos-he-created-and-did-everything-he-could-to/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88b/joshua-green-3819_quote_bannon-thrived-on-the-chaos-he-created-a_482546.jpg)

> [“On television and on the front pages of the major newspapers, Trump clearly seemed to be losing the election. Each new woman…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/on-television-and-on-the-front-pages-of-the-major-newspapers-trump/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fc/joshua-green-3819_focal-point_on-television-and-on-the-front-pages-of_1559450.jpg)

> [“Bannon and the Breitbart editors had the same reaction and immediately turned on Megyn Kelly, with a fusillade of negative articles. She…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/bannon-and-the-breitbart-editors-had-the-same-reaction-and/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f98/joshua-green-3819_fox-news_bannon-and-the-breitbart-editors-had-the_1924070.jpg)

> [“What he wanted the media to cover, constantly and at length, was only one thing: Donald Trump.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/what-he-wanted-the-media-to-cover-constantly-and-at-length-was-only/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/674/joshua-green-3819_donald-trump_what-he-wanted-the-media-to-cover-consta_54736.jpg)

> [“The Clintons, on the other hand, registered to most conservatives as the primary and ever-present”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/the-clintons-on-the-other-hand-registered-to-most-conservatives-as/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a02/joshua-green-3819_quote_the-clintons-on-the-other-hand-registere_2240958.jpg)

> [“Conway was a pollster by trade, but she tested messaging, not horse race, and the campaign had cut her off weeks earlier…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/conway-was-a-pollster-by-trade-but-she-tested-messaging-not-horse/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4a/joshua-green-3819_quote_conway-was-a-pollster-by-trade-but-she-t_1877147.jpg)

> [“He loved the guy.” It was clear the connection was genuine, said Roger Stone, “because Steve is a slob, and Trump hates…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/he-loved-the-guy-it-was-clear-the-connection-was-genuine-said-roger/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/726/joshua-green-3819_trump_he-loved-the-guy-it-was-clear-the-connec_115355.jpg)

> [“Bring in Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway,” Mercer told him. “I’ve talked to them; they’ll do it.” Trump agreed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/bring-in-steve-bannon-and-kellyanne-conway-mercer-told-him-i-ve/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6f/joshua-green-3819_steve-bannon_bring-in-steve-bannon-and-kellyanne-conw_1943298.jpg)

> [ “Among those informed about immigration \[the Gang of Eight bill\] was shocking—a kick in the teeth to decent Americans,” said Jeff Sessions,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/among-those-informed-about-immigration-the-gang-of-eight-bill-was/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ee/joshua-green-3819_attorney-general_among-those-informed-about-immigration-t_1797216.jpg)

> [“By exhuming the nationalist thinkers of an earlier age, Bannon was trying to build an intellectual basis for Trumpism, or what might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/by-exhuming-the-nationalist-thinkers-of-an-earlier-age-bannon-was/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4df/joshua-green-3819_nationalist_by-exhuming-the-nationalist-thinkers-of_2852803.jpg)

> [“The last few days have proven to be pivotal in the minds of voters with the recent revelations in reopening the investigation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/the-last-few-days-have-proven-to-be-pivotal-in-the-minds-of-voters/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/660/joshua-green-3819_psychology_the-last-few-days-have-proven-to-be-pivo_521603.jpg)

## Other authors on Trump

## More by Joshua Green

> [“This popularity extended to Trump himself, who, according to private demographic research conducted at the time, was even more popular with African American and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/this-popularity-extended-to-trump-himself-who-according-to-private/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

> [“It fed his grandiose sense of purpose to imagine that he was amassing an army of ragged, pitchfork-wielding outsiders to storm the barricades and,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/it-fed-his-grandiose-sense-of-purpose-to-imagine-that-he-was-amassing/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

> [“few days earlier, Trump’s team of data scientists, squirreled away in an office down in San Antonio, had delivered a report titled “Predictions: Five…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/few-days-earlier-trump-s-team-of-data-scientists-squirreled-away-in/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

> [“What he wanted the media to cover, constantly and at length, was only one thing: Donald Trump.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/what-he-wanted-the-media-to-cover-constantly-and-at-length-was-only/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

> [“an unlikely pair of guests: Nigel Farage, the leader of the right-wing UK Independence Party, and Phil Robertson, the bandanna’d, ayatollah-bearded Duck Dynasty patriarch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/an-unlikely-pair-of-guests-nigel-farage-the-leader-of-the-right-wing/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

> [“suggested to him that it was working. He was sure that Sanders’s rise was destined to end in crashing disappointment. Having thrilled to his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/suggested-to-him-that-it-was-working-he-was-sure-that-sanders-s-rise/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

> [“He and Kushner had hit upon the plan after seeing Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks and an outspoken Clinton partisan,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/he-and-kushner-had-hit-upon-the-plan-after-seeing-mark-cuban-the/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

> [“He loved the guy.” It was clear the connection was genuine, said Roger Stone, “because Steve is a slob, and Trump hates slobs.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/he-loved-the-guy-it-was-clear-the-connection-was-genuine-said-roger/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

> [“Bannon’s a political entrepreneur and a remarkable bloke,” Farage said. “Without the supportive voice of Breitbart London, I’m not sure we would have had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/bannon-s-a-political-entrepreneur-and-a-remarkable-bloke-farage-said/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

> [“Wherever he could, he aligned himself with politicians and causes committed to tearing down its globalist edifice: archconservative Catholics such as Burke, Nigel Farage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/wherever-he-could-he-aligned-himself-with-politicians-and-causes/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

> [“For all his paranoid alarm, Bannon believes that the rise of nationalist movements across the world, from Europe to Japan to the United States,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/for-all-his-paranoid-alarm-bannon-believes-that-the-rise-of/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

> [“At its essence, the alt-right is a rolling tumbleweed of wounded male id and aggression.\*”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/at-its-essence-the-alt-right-is-a-rolling-tumbleweed-of-wounded-male/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

> [“We have to make America strong again and make America great again,” Trump told the CPAC crowd. “Because when it comes to immigration, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/we-have-to-make-america-strong-again-and-make-america-great-again/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

> [“He went on to make a series of preposterous-sounding claims—almost all of which would be borne out in the end: he would win a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/he-went-on-to-make-a-series-of-preposterous-sounding-claims-almost/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

> [“In 1998, when Clinton first posited a “vast right-wing conspiracy” bent on ruining her and her husband, she was widely ridiculed. But she wasn’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/in-1998-when-clinton-first-posited-a-vast-right-wing-conspiracy-bent/)

[Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/joshua-green/#itemlist",
            "name": "83 Trump Quotes By Joshua Green",
            "numberOfItems": 40,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Stuart Stevens, who ran Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. “Trump is a nut, and he likes to surround himself with nuts. It’s a disaster for the Republican Party.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/stuart-stevens-who-ran-mitt-romney-s-2012-presidential-campaign-trump/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5b/joshua-green-3819_mitt-romney_stuart-stevens-who-ran-mitt-romney-s-201_443584.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5b/joshua-green-3819_mitt-romney_stuart-stevens-who-ran-mitt-romney-s-201_443584.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5b/joshua-green-3819_mitt-romney_stuart-stevens-who-ran-mitt-romney-s-201_443584.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Stuart Stevens, who ran Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. “Trump is a nut, and he likes to surround…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“At heart, Trump is an opportunist driven by a desire for public acclaim, rather than a politician with any fixed principles.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/at-heart-trump-is-an-opportunist-driven-by-a-desire-for-public/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a24/joshua-green-3819_quote_at-heart-trump-is-an-opportunist-driven_886396.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a24/joshua-green-3819_quote_at-heart-trump-is-an-opportunist-driven_886396.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a24/joshua-green-3819_quote_at-heart-trump-is-an-opportunist-driven_886396.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“At heart, Trump is an opportunist driven by a desire for public acclaim, rather than a politician with any…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Trump’s data analysts gave them a nickname: “double haters.” These were people who disliked both candidates but traditionally showed up at the polls to vote.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/trump-s-data-analysts-gave-them-a-nickname-double-haters-these-were/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/748/joshua-green-3819_haters_trump-s-data-analysts-gave-them-a-nickna_407890.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/748/joshua-green-3819_haters_trump-s-data-analysts-gave-them-a-nickna_407890.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/748/joshua-green-3819_haters_trump-s-data-analysts-gave-them-a-nickna_407890.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Trump’s data analysts gave them a nickname: “double haters.” These were people who disliked both candidates…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Bannon’s a political entrepreneur and a remarkable bloke,” Farage said. “Without the supportive voice of Breitbart London, I’m not sure we would have had a Brexit.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/bannon-s-a-political-entrepreneur-and-a-remarkable-bloke-farage-said/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbe/joshua-green-3819_business_bannon-s-a-political-entrepreneur-and-a_158392.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbe/joshua-green-3819_business_bannon-s-a-political-entrepreneur-and-a_158392.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbe/joshua-green-3819_business_bannon-s-a-political-entrepreneur-and-a_158392.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Bannon’s a political entrepreneur and a remarkable bloke,” Farage said. “Without the supportive voice of…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Essentially, they understood Trump’s pursuit of the presidency to be a revenge fantasy exacted upon his tormentors to establish, with sweeping certainty, his dominance over all”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/essentially-they-understood-trump-s-pursuit-of-the-presidency-to-be-a/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b85/joshua-green-3819_quote_essentially-they-understood-trump-s-purs_947515.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b85/joshua-green-3819_quote_essentially-they-understood-trump-s-purs_947515.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b85/joshua-green-3819_quote_essentially-they-understood-trump-s-purs_947515.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Essentially, they understood Trump’s pursuit of the presidency to be a revenge fantasy exacted upon his…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 6,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“by installing Bannon, Conway, and later Bossie, Trump was handing the reins of a half-billion-dollar political enterprise to a seasoned team of professional anti-Clinton operatives. These”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/by-installing-bannon-conway-and-later-bossie-trump-was-handing-the-2/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/681/joshua-green-3819_business_by-installing-bannon-conway-and-later-bo_2919974.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/681/joshua-green-3819_business_by-installing-bannon-conway-and-later-bo_2919974.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/681/joshua-green-3819_business_by-installing-bannon-conway-and-later-bo_2919974.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“by installing Bannon, Conway, and later Bossie, Trump was handing the reins of a half-billion-dollar…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 7,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“He knew who his audience was going to be—it was not going to be people who want to have policy debates. It was going to be older people, people who work with their hands.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/he-knew-who-his-audience-was-going-to-be-it-was-not-going-to-be/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa9/joshua-green-3819_older-people_he-knew-who-his-audience-was-going-to-be_1967101.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa9/joshua-green-3819_older-people_he-knew-who-his-audience-was-going-to-be_1967101.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa9/joshua-green-3819_older-people_he-knew-who-his-audience-was-going-to-be_1967101.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“He knew who his audience was going to be—it was not going to be people who want to have policy debates. It…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 8,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Manafort’s ouster extinguished the last vestige of hope for Republicans praying that Trump would at last pivot to a more statesmanlike approach.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/manafort-s-ouster-extinguished-the-last-vestige-of-hope-for/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e76/joshua-green-3819_hope_manafort-s-ouster-extinguished-the-last_1036957.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e76/joshua-green-3819_hope_manafort-s-ouster-extinguished-the-last_1036957.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e76/joshua-green-3819_hope_manafort-s-ouster-extinguished-the-last_1036957.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Manafort’s ouster extinguished the last vestige of hope for Republicans praying that Trump would at last…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 9,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“It fed his grandiose sense of purpose to imagine that he was amassing an army of ragged, pitchfork-wielding outsiders to storm the barricades and, in Andrew Breitbart’s favorite formulation, “take back the country.” If Bannon was bothered by the incendiary views held by some of those lining up with him, he didn’t show it. His habit always was to welcome all comers.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/it-fed-his-grandiose-sense-of-purpose-to-imagine-that-he-was-amassing/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dce/joshua-green-3819_trump_it-fed-his-grandiose-sense-of-purpose-to_7367.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dce/joshua-green-3819_trump_it-fed-his-grandiose-sense-of-purpose-to_7367.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dce/joshua-green-3819_trump_it-fed-his-grandiose-sense-of-purpose-to_7367.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“It fed his grandiose sense of purpose to imagine that he was amassing an army of ragged, pitchfork-wielding…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 10,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Trump grew incensed at the popular notion that Bannon was the one really running the show—that he was, as an infamous Time cover put it, “The Great Manipulator.” Soon afterward, Bannon was unceremoniously demoted, though he kept his job and clawed back to a position of influence.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/trump-grew-incensed-at-the-popular-notion-that-bannon-was-the-one/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73a/joshua-green-3819_great-man_trump-grew-incensed-at-the-popular-notio_2935135.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73a/joshua-green-3819_great-man_trump-grew-incensed-at-the-popular-notio_2935135.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73a/joshua-green-3819_great-man_trump-grew-incensed-at-the-popular-notio_2935135.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Trump grew incensed at the popular notion that Bannon was the one really running the show—that he was, as an…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 11,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“By the time Trump arrived at his next event, in Lisbon, Maine, he had hit upon an even better sound bite to capture Clinton’s travails. “This,” he told the audience, “is the biggest political scandal since Watergate.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/by-the-time-trump-arrived-at-his-next-event-in-lisbon-maine-he-had/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a39/joshua-green-3819_time_by-the-time-trump-arrived-at-his-next-ev_1184939.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a39/joshua-green-3819_time_by-the-time-trump-arrived-at-his-next-ev_1184939.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a39/joshua-green-3819_time_by-the-time-trump-arrived-at-his-next-ev_1184939.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“By the time Trump arrived at his next event, in Lisbon, Maine, he had hit upon an even better sound bite to…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 12,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“early the next morning, he jetted off to Washington, D.C., where the comedian Seth Meyers was going to emcee the Correspondents’ Dinner. Trump had no idea that Meyers and Obama were anticipating his arrival and preparing to make him a national laughingstock. And none of them knew that this elaborate humiliation would be the catalyst that put Trump on a path to the White House.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/early-the-next-morning-he-jetted-off-to-washington-d-c-where-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87b/joshua-green-3819_white-house_early-the-next-morning-he-jetted-off-to_551822.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87b/joshua-green-3819_white-house_early-the-next-morning-he-jetted-off-to_551822.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87b/joshua-green-3819_white-house_early-the-next-morning-he-jetted-off-to_551822.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“early the next morning, he jetted off to Washington, D.C., where the comedian Seth Meyers was going to emcee…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 13,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“they kept asking him about immigration. That opened his eyes.” The issue also dovetailed with Trump’s long-held view that the United States was being taken advantage of by hostile foreigners.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/they-kept-asking-him-about-immigration-that-opened-his-eyes-the-issue/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59b/joshua-green-3819_immigration_they-kept-asking-him-about-immigration-t_2515054.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59b/joshua-green-3819_immigration_they-kept-asking-him-about-immigration-t_2515054.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59b/joshua-green-3819_immigration_they-kept-asking-him-about-immigration-t_2515054.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“they kept asking him about immigration. That opened his eyes.” The issue also dovetailed with Trump’s…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 14,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“As he broadcast his birther charge against Obama, Nielsen ratings for The Celebrity Apprentice took a sharp turn for the worse. “Given the downward trend of Trump’s ratings among his current, liberal audience,” joked one Republican media buyer, “maybe he’s running as a Republican to add a little bipartisan diversity to his viewership.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/as-he-broadcast-his-birther-charge-against-obama-nielsen-ratings-for/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a61/joshua-green-3819_quote_as-he-broadcast-his-birther-charge-again_2188882.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a61/joshua-green-3819_quote_as-he-broadcast-his-birther-charge-again_2188882.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a61/joshua-green-3819_quote_as-he-broadcast-his-birther-charge-again_2188882.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“As he broadcast his birther charge against Obama, Nielsen ratings for The Celebrity Apprentice took a sharp…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 15,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Ever since The New York Times broke the news on March 2, 2015, that Clinton used a personal e-mail account and private server as secretary of state, risking exposure of classified documents to hostile foreign powers, the subject of her e-mails had stalked her campaign, fusing with the damaging Clinton Cash narrative to undermine the public’s trust in her. Clinton”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/ever-since-the-new-york-times-broke-the-news-on-march-2-2015-that/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54a/joshua-green-3819_york-times_ever-since-the-new-york-times-broke-the_1014321.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54a/joshua-green-3819_york-times_ever-since-the-new-york-times-broke-the_1014321.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54a/joshua-green-3819_york-times_ever-since-the-new-york-times-broke-the_1014321.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Ever since The New York Times broke the news on March 2, 2015, that Clinton used a personal e-mail account…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 16,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“White audiences, along with everybody else, tuned in to watch Trump—but either they didn’t particularly like him or they simply loved to hate him. Either way, said Schafer, “he definitely had a stronger positive perception among blacks and Hispanics.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/white-audiences-along-with-everybody-else-tuned-in-to-watch-trump-but/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/066/joshua-green-3819_quote_white-audiences-along-with-everybody-els_1175363.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/066/joshua-green-3819_quote_white-audiences-along-with-everybody-els_1175363.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/066/joshua-green-3819_quote_white-audiences-along-with-everybody-els_1175363.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“White audiences, along with everybody else, tuned in to watch Trump—but either they didn’t particularly like…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 17,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“salesman and turned to politics to feed his family). . . . Businessmen are accustomed to taking risk, however business risk is often partially assigned, buffered, or diluted with partners, alliances, or vendors, insurance or legal shields such as the corporate veil, which reduce personal exposure. Political risk, on the other hand, is purely personal and almost impossible to allocate—the risk of loss is 100 percent on the candidate (blaming campaign managers or other outside factors is usually regarded as lame; the candidate is regarded by the public as solely responsible for his campaign).”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/salesman-and-turned-to-politics-to-feed-his-family-businessmen-are/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c3/joshua-green-3819_family_salesman-and-turned-to-politics-to-feed_2301020.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c3/joshua-green-3819_family_salesman-and-turned-to-politics-to-feed_2301020.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c3/joshua-green-3819_family_salesman-and-turned-to-politics-to-feed_2301020.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“salesman and turned to politics to feed his family). . . . Businessmen are accustomed to taking risk…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 18,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Inside Trump’s circle, the power of illegal immigration to manipulate popular sentiment was readily apparent, and his advisers brainstormed methods for keeping their attention-addled boss on message. They needed a trick, a mnemonic device. In the summer of 2014, they found one that clicked. “Roger Stone and I came up with the idea of ‘the Wall,’ and we talked to Steve [Bannon] about it,” said Nunberg. “It was to make sure he talked about immigration.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/inside-trump-s-circle-the-power-of-illegal-immigration-to-manipulate/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed3/joshua-green-3819_illegal-immigration_inside-trump-s-circle-the-power-of-illeg_870137.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed3/joshua-green-3819_illegal-immigration_inside-trump-s-circle-the-power-of-illeg_870137.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed3/joshua-green-3819_illegal-immigration_inside-trump-s-circle-the-power-of-illeg_870137.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Inside Trump’s circle, the power of illegal immigration to manipulate popular sentiment was readily…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 19,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Any study of Trump’s rise to the presidency is therefore unavoidably a study of Bannon, too. It’s a story Trump won’t like, because he isn’t always the central character. And because, contrary to his blustery assertions, his victory wasn’t a landslide, didn’t owe solely to the force of his personality or his business savvy, and happened only due to a remarkable confluence of circumstances”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/any-study-of-trump-s-rise-to-the-presidency-is-therefore-unavoidably/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c2/joshua-green-3819_education_any-study-of-trump-s-rise-to-the-preside_3178685.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c2/joshua-green-3819_education_any-study-of-trump-s-rise-to-the-preside_3178685.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c2/joshua-green-3819_education_any-study-of-trump-s-rise-to-the-preside_3178685.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Any study of Trump’s rise to the presidency is therefore unavoidably a study of Bannon, too. It’s a story…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 20,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“To all outward appearances, Trump had just been brutally dispatched—his dignity snatched away from him, his foray into politics swiftly cut short, the preening, grasping interloper who had barged into a world where he didn’t belong sent crawling back to his rightful station: a tawdry world of bimbos, pink marble, reality TV, and “Page Six.” This is what all of Washington understood to have happened, for years afterward: Trump had made another of his absurd periodic displays of pretending to contemplate a run for president, ventured too far in his quest for publicity, and suffered a terminal humiliation. Now the universe had snapped back into balance and ejected him. Only that wasn’t what had happened at”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/to-all-outward-appearances-trump-had-just-been-brutally-dispatched/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62b/joshua-green-3819_politics_to-all-outward-appearances-trump-had-jus_2944488.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62b/joshua-green-3819_politics_to-all-outward-appearances-trump-had-jus_2944488.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62b/joshua-green-3819_politics_to-all-outward-appearances-trump-had-jus_2944488.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“To all outward appearances, Trump had just been brutally dispatched—his dignity snatched away from him, his…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 21,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“He went on to make a series of preposterous-sounding claims—almost all of which would be borne out in the end: he would win a larger share of African Americans and Hispanics than Romney had (they loved him on The Apprentice!); he would open up new electoral college paths for the Republican Party; he would defeat Hillary Clinton; and he would do all this without raising the $1 billion to $2 billion that modern presidential campaigns were thought to require. Trump didn’t have the typical qualifications of a major-party presidential nominee, this he admitted. But”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/he-went-on-to-make-a-series-of-preposterous-sounding-claims-almost/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/joshua-green-3819_african-american_he-went-on-to-make-a-series-of-preposter_278454.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/joshua-green-3819_african-american_he-went-on-to-make-a-series-of-preposter_278454.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/joshua-green-3819_african-american_he-went-on-to-make-a-series-of-preposter_278454.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“He went on to make a series of preposterous-sounding claims—almost all of which would be borne out in the…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 22,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“The next day, Ailes called back, less sure of himself. He had tried calling the elder Murdoch, who was vacationing with his wife in the South of France and didn’t take the call. “It’s too hard to get through; he’s on a boat,” Ailes ventured. Bannon told him to get as much money as he could in a settlement and face up to the truth. “If somebody called him about a merger, he’d take the fucking call,” Bannon told Ailes. “You’re done.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/the-next-day-ailes-called-back-less-sure-of-himself-he-had-tried/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/524/joshua-green-3819_next-day_the-next-day-ailes-called-back-less-sure_2187629.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/524/joshua-green-3819_next-day_the-next-day-ailes-called-back-less-sure_2187629.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/524/joshua-green-3819_next-day_the-next-day-ailes-called-back-less-sure_2187629.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The next day, Ailes called back, less sure of himself. He had tried calling the elder Murdoch, who was…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 23,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“by installing Bannon, Conway, and later Bossie, Trump was handing the reins of a half-billion-dollar political enterprise to a seasoned team of professional anti-Clinton operatives. These three figures from the Republican fringe, and the menagerie of characters they brought with them, were suddenly in charge of running a major-party presidential campaign—against an opponent, Hillary Clinton, whom they’d been plotting to tear apart for the better part of twenty-five years.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/by-installing-bannon-conway-and-later-bossie-trump-was-handing-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b0/joshua-green-3819_business_by-installing-bannon-conway-and-later-bo_1191901.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b0/joshua-green-3819_business_by-installing-bannon-conway-and-later-bo_1191901.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b0/joshua-green-3819_business_by-installing-bannon-conway-and-later-bo_1191901.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“by installing Bannon, Conway, and later Bossie, Trump was handing the reins of a half-billion-dollar…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 24,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Trump was holding massive rallies in places like Alabama, which was bizarre according to conventional wisdom. Most reporters considered them an exercise in self-aggrandizement. In late August, Trump held a stadium event in Mobile, Alabama, which was so baffling to the local political cognoscenti that on the day he arrived, the front-page headline of the Mobile Press-Register read “Trump’s stumping in Mobile, but why?” There were two reasons for the perplexing strategy. The first was the Trump team’s belief that it could quickly lock”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/trump-was-holding-massive-rallies-in-places-like-alabama-which-was/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bb/joshua-green-3819_conventional-wisdom_trump-was-holding-massive-rallies-in-pla_2606427.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bb/joshua-green-3819_conventional-wisdom_trump-was-holding-massive-rallies-in-pla_2606427.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bb/joshua-green-3819_conventional-wisdom_trump-was-holding-massive-rallies-in-pla_2606427.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Trump was holding massive rallies in places like Alabama, which was bizarre according to conventional…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 25,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Manafort’s ouster extinguished the last vestige of hope for Republicans praying that Trump would at last pivot to a more statesmanlike approach. No one believed he had any chance of winning in November; their desperation, at this point, was driven purely by the desire to limit the scope of the expected GOP losses down the ticket. Bannon’s elevation was simply unimaginable, the Republican establishment’s worst nightmare come to life. “This is the bunker scene in Downfall, only the Trump crowd won’t tell Hitler the truth. It’s utter madness,” said Stuart Stevens, who ran Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. “Trump is a nut, and he likes to surround himself with nuts. It’s a disaster for the Republican Party.” Although few Republicans knew Bannon personally, many were acquainted with Breitbart’s aggressive, hard-edged populism, often because they had been on the receiving end of one of its journalistic assaults. Bannon, they understood, would pay no heed at all to the sensitivities of down-ballot Republicans, and indeed would gladly indulge Trump’s impulse to burn everything down. “If you were looking for a tone or pivot, Bannon will pivot you in a dark, racist, and divisive direction,” said the GOP consultant Rick Wilson. “It’ll be a nationalist, hateful campaign. Republicans should run away.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/manafort-s-ouster-extinguished-the-last-vestige-of-hope-for-2/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f8/joshua-green-3819_democracy_manafort-s-ouster-extinguished-the-last_1255495.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f8/joshua-green-3819_democracy_manafort-s-ouster-extinguished-the-last_1255495.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f8/joshua-green-3819_democracy_manafort-s-ouster-extinguished-the-last_1255495.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Manafort’s ouster extinguished the last vestige of hope for Republicans praying that Trump would at last…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 26,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“As devious as this plot was, it could never have succeeded to the degree that it did had Clinton not abetted it with such vigor. That summer, she failed to emerge as the overwhelming front-runner everyone had expected, weighed down by stories on Clinton Foundation “buckraking” and the revelation that she had kept a private e-mail server as secretary of state and destroyed much of her correspondence. She also refused to release transcripts of highly paid speeches she’d delivered to Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms. In August, e-mails surfaced showing that Bill Clinton, through the foundation, had sought State Department permission to accept speaking fees in repressive countries such as North Korea and the Republic of the Congo. A poll the same day found that the word voters associated most with his wife was “liar.” Clinton’s tone-deaf response to the steady drip of revelations only deepened their impact because”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/as-devious-as-this-plot-was-it-could-never-have-succeeded-to-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bf/joshua-green-3819_north-korea_as-devious-as-this-plot-was-it-could-nev_3043493.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bf/joshua-green-3819_north-korea_as-devious-as-this-plot-was-it-could-nev_3043493.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bf/joshua-green-3819_north-korea_as-devious-as-this-plot-was-it-could-nev_3043493.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“As devious as this plot was, it could never have succeeded to the degree that it did had Clinton not abetted…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 27,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“From a raw political standpoint, Trump’s decision to adopt a set of views that offended and alienated minority voters, ugly though it was, turned out well for him. He would soon go further, broadening his attacks to include illegal immigrants. Trump did so at precisely the moment when Republican leaders, led by party chairman Reince Priebus (Trump’s future chief of staff), released an “autopsy” of Mitt Romney’s defeat that included a detailed plan for how the party could recover. Its most important recommendation was that Republicans embrace comprehensive immigration reform in order to broaden their appeal to minority voters. In so many words, Republican leaders were telling their rank and file that they needed to be more like Trump during his Apprentice glory days—while Trump was arriving at the opposite conclusion and, with Bannon’s eager encouragement, doing everything he could to build a political movement around white identity politics. A wily”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/from-a-raw-political-standpoint-trump-s-decision-to-adopt-a-set-of/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b9/joshua-green-3819_chief-of-staff_from-a-raw-political-standpoint-trump-s_447984.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b9/joshua-green-3819_chief-of-staff_from-a-raw-political-standpoint-trump-s_447984.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b9/joshua-green-3819_chief-of-staff_from-a-raw-political-standpoint-trump-s_447984.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“From a raw political standpoint, Trump’s decision to adopt a set of views that offended and alienated…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 28,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Ailes dispatched his personal lawyer, Peter Johnson, Jr., to the Breitbart Embassy in Washington, D.C., to deliver a personal message to Bannon to end the war on Kelly. Bannon loathed Johnson, whom he referred to privately as “that nebbishy, goofball lawyer on Fox & Friends”—Johnson had leveraged his proximity to Ailes to become a Fox News pundit. When he arrived at the Embassy, Johnson got straight to the point: if Bannon didn’t stop immediately, he would never again appear on Fox News. “You’ve got a very strong relationship with Roger,” Johnson warned. “You’ve gotta stop these attacks on Megyn. She’s the star. And if you don’t stop, there are going to be consequences.” Bannon was incensed at the threat. “She’s pure evil,” he told Johnson. “And she will turn on him one day. We’re going full-bore. We’re not going to stop. I’m gonna unchain the dogs.” The conversation was brief and unpleasant, and it ended with a cinematic flourish.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/ailes-dispatched-his-personal-lawyer-peter-johnson-jr-to-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3b/joshua-green-3819_fox-news_ailes-dispatched-his-personal-lawyer-pet_2332464.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3b/joshua-green-3819_fox-news_ailes-dispatched-his-personal-lawyer-pet_2332464.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3b/joshua-green-3819_fox-news_ailes-dispatched-his-personal-lawyer-pet_2332464.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Ailes dispatched his personal lawyer, Peter Johnson, Jr., to the Breitbart Embassy in Washington, D.C., to…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 29,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“the negative coverage of Bannon and Trump and their relationship to the alt-right carried on for weeks. It was a subject any ordinary campaign would be toxically afraid of. But it didn’t produce the political dynamic Clinton expected: her lead actually narrowed in the month after her speech, from six points to two points in the RealClearPolitics average of polls. Bannon thought he knew why. “We polled the race stuff and it doesn’t matter,” he said in late September. “It doesn’t move anyone who isn’t already in her camp.” — What became much more worrisome for the Trump campaign was sex—and sexual assault. On October 7, David Fahrenthold, a reporter at The Washington Post, was leaked outtake footage from a 2005 Trump appearance on the NBC show Access Hollywood. In the tape, the recently married Trump is heard bragging in lewd and graphic detail to the show’s host, Billy Bush, about kissing, groping, and trying to bed women. “When you’re a star, they let you do it,” Trump says. “You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy.” From the moment it posted at four”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/the-negative-coverage-of-bannon-and-trump-and-their-relationship-to/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f90/joshua-green-3819_sexual-assault_the-negative-coverage-of-bannon-and-trum_905744.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f90/joshua-green-3819_sexual-assault_the-negative-coverage-of-bannon-and-trum_905744.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f90/joshua-green-3819_sexual-assault_the-negative-coverage-of-bannon-and-trum_905744.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“the negative coverage of Bannon and Trump and their relationship to the alt-right carried on for weeks. It…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 30,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Bannon thrived on the chaos he created and did everything he could to make it spread. When he finally made his way through the crowd to the back of the town house, he put on a headset to join the broadcast of the Breitbart radio show already in progress. It was his way of bringing tens of thousands of listeners into the inner sanctum of the “Breitbart Embassy,” as the town house was ironically known, and thereby conscripting them into a larger project. Bannon was inordinately proud of the movement he saw growing around him, boasting constantly of its egalitarian nature. What to an outsider could look like a cast of extras from the Island of Misfit Toys was, in Bannon’s eyes, a proudly populist and “unclubbable” plebiscite rising up in defiant protest against the “globalists” and “gatekeepers” who had taken control of both parties. Just how Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty figured into a plan to overthrow the global power structure wasn’t clear, even to many of Bannon’s friends. But, then, Bannon derived a visceral thrill anytime he could deliver a fuck-you to the establishment. The thousands of frustrated listeners calling in to his radio show, and the millions more who flocked to Breitbart News, had left him no doubt that an army of the angry and dispossessed was eager to join him in lobbing a bomb at the country’s leaders. As guests left the party, a doorman handed out a gift that Bannon had chosen for the occasion: a silver hip flask with “Breitbart” imprinted above an image of a honey badger, the Breitbart mascot. — Bannon’s cult-leader magnetism was a powerful draw for oddballs and freaks, and the attraction ran both ways. As he moved further from the cosmopolitan orbits of Goldman Sachs and Hollywood, there was no longer any need for him to suppress his right-wing impulses. Giving full vent to his views on subjects like immigration and Islam isolated him among a radical fringe that most of political Washington regarded as teeming with racist conspiracy theorists. But far from being bothered, Bannon welcomed their disdain, taking it as proof of his authentic conviction. It fed his grandiose sense of purpose to imagine that he was amassing an army of ragged, pitchfork-wielding outsiders to storm the barricades and, in Andrew Breitbart’s favorite formulation, “take back the country.” If Bannon was bothered by the incendiary views held by some of those lining up with him, he didn’t show it. His habit always was to welcome all comers. To all outward appearances, Bannon, wild-eyed and scruffy, a Falstaff in flip-flops, was someone whom the political world could safely ignore. But his appearance, and the company he kept, masked an analytic capability that was undiminished and as applicable to politics as it had been to the finances of corrupt Hollywood movie studios. Somehow, Bannon, who would happily fall into league with the most agitated conservative zealot, was able to see clearly that conservatives had failed to stop Bill Clinton in the 1990s because they had indulged this very zealotry to a point where their credibility with the media and mainstream voters was shot. Trapped in their own bubble, speaking only to one another, they had believed that they were winning, when in reality they had already lost.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/bannon-thrived-on-the-chaos-he-created-and-did-everything-he-could-to/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88b/joshua-green-3819_quote_bannon-thrived-on-the-chaos-he-created-a_482546.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88b/joshua-green-3819_quote_bannon-thrived-on-the-chaos-he-created-a_482546.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88b/joshua-green-3819_quote_bannon-thrived-on-the-chaos-he-created-a_482546.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Bannon thrived on the chaos he created and did everything he could to make it spread. When he finally made…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 31,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“On television and on the front pages of the major newspapers, Trump clearly seemed to be losing the election. Each new woman who came forward with charges of misbehavior became a focal point of coverage, coupled with Trump’s furious reaction, his ever darkening speeches, and the accompanying suggestion that they were dog whistles aimed at racists and anti-Semites. “Trump’s remarks,” one Washington Post story explained, summing up the media’s outlook, “were laced with the kind of global conspiracies and invective common in the writings of the alternative-right, white-nationalist activists who see him as their champion. Some critics also heard echoes of historical anti-Semitic slurs in Trump’s allegations that Clinton ‘meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty’ and that media and financial elites were part of a soulless cabal.” This outlook, which Clinton’s campaign shared, gave little consideration to the possibility that voters might be angry at large banks, international organizations, and media and financial elites for reasons other than their basest prejudices. This was the axis on which Bannon’s nationalist politics hinged: the belief that, as Marine Le Pen put it, “the dividing line is [no longer] between left and right but globalists and patriots.” Even as he lashed out at his accusers and threatened to jail Clinton, Trump’s late-campaign speeches put his own stamp on this idea. As he told one rally: “There is no global anthem, no global currency, no certificate of global citizenship. From now on, it’s going to be ‘America first.’” Anyone steeped in Guénon’s Traditionalism would recognize the terrifying specter Trump conjured of marauding immigrants, Muslim terrorists, and the collapse of national sovereignty and identity as the descent of a Dark Age—the Kali Yuga. For the millions who were not familiar with it, Trump’s apocalyptic speeches came across as a particularly forceful expression of his conviction that he understood their deep dissatisfaction with the political status quo and could bring about a rapid renewal. Whether it was a result of Trump’s apocalyptic turn, disgust at the Clintons, or simply accuser fatigue—it was likely a combination of all three—the pattern of slippage in the wake of negative news was less pronounced in Trump’s internal surveys in mid-October. Overall, he still trailed. But the data were noisy. In some states (Indiana, New Hampshire, Arizona) his support eroded, but in others (Florida, Ohio, Michigan) it actually improved. When Trump held his own at the third and final debate on October 19, the numbers inched up further. The movement was clear enough that Nate Silver and other statistical mavens began to take note of it. “Is the Presidential Race Tightening?” he asked in the title of an October 26 article. Citing Trump’s rising favorability numbers among Republicans and red-state trend lines, he cautiously concluded that probably it was. By November 1, he had no doubt. “Yes, Donald Trump Has a Path to Victory” read the headline for his column that day, in which he”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/on-television-and-on-the-front-pages-of-the-major-newspapers-trump/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fc/joshua-green-3819_focal-point_on-television-and-on-the-front-pages-of_1559450.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fc/joshua-green-3819_focal-point_on-television-and-on-the-front-pages-of_1559450.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fc/joshua-green-3819_focal-point_on-television-and-on-the-front-pages-of_1559450.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“On television and on the front pages of the major newspapers, Trump clearly seemed to be losing the…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 32,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Bannon and the Breitbart editors had the same reaction and immediately turned on Megyn Kelly, with a fusillade of negative articles. She became the newest Breitbart narrative: the back-stabbing, self-promoting betrayer-of-the-cause. And Breitbart became the locus of pro-Trump, anti-Fox conservative anger. Between Thursday night, when the debate took place, and Sunday evening, Breitbart published twenty-five stories on Kelly, and the site’s editor in chief, Alex Marlow, went on CNN to accuse Fox News of “trying to take out Donald Trump” and staging “a gotcha debate.” The intensity of Republican anger stunned Fox News executives. The debate had drawn a record 24 million viewers. Now many of them were apoplectic at the network’s top talent. “In the beginning, virtually 100 percent of the emails were against Megyn Kelly,” a Fox source told New York’s Gabriel Sherman. “Roger was not happy. Most of the Fox viewers were taking Trump’s side.” Word spread through the building that Kelly was furious and had personally complained to Ailes. By Sunday, the attacks against her showed no sign of letting up, as other conservative opinion makers, such as radio host Mark Levin, agreed that her questions to Trump had been “unfair.” In a panic, Ailes called Bannon and begged him to call off the attacks. “Steve, this isn’t fair, and it’s killing us,” Ailes said. “You have to stop it.” “Fuck that, that was outrageous what she did!” Bannon retorted. “She pulled every trick out of the leftist playbook.” “You’ve gotta knock this crap off, Steve.” “Not until she backs off Trump—she’s still going after him on her show.” “She’s the star of this network! Cut it out!” The call ended without resolution. Bannon and Ailes would not speak again for almost a year.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/bannon-and-the-breitbart-editors-had-the-same-reaction-and/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f98/joshua-green-3819_fox-news_bannon-and-the-breitbart-editors-had-the_1924070.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f98/joshua-green-3819_fox-news_bannon-and-the-breitbart-editors-had-the_1924070.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f98/joshua-green-3819_fox-news_bannon-and-the-breitbart-editors-had-the_1924070.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Bannon and the Breitbart editors had the same reaction and immediately turned on Megyn Kelly, with a…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 33,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“What he wanted the media to cover, constantly and at length, was only one thing: Donald Trump.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/what-he-wanted-the-media-to-cover-constantly-and-at-length-was-only/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/674/joshua-green-3819_donald-trump_what-he-wanted-the-media-to-cover-consta_54736.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/674/joshua-green-3819_donald-trump_what-he-wanted-the-media-to-cover-consta_54736.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/674/joshua-green-3819_donald-trump_what-he-wanted-the-media-to-cover-consta_54736.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“What he wanted the media to cover, constantly and at length, was only one thing: Donald Trump.” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 34,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“The Clintons, on the other hand, registered to most conservatives as the primary and ever-present”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/the-clintons-on-the-other-hand-registered-to-most-conservatives-as/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a02/joshua-green-3819_quote_the-clintons-on-the-other-hand-registere_2240958.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a02/joshua-green-3819_quote_the-clintons-on-the-other-hand-registere_2240958.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a02/joshua-green-3819_quote_the-clintons-on-the-other-hand-registere_2240958.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The Clintons, on the other hand, registered to most conservatives as the primary and ever-present” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 35,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Conway was a pollster by trade, but she tested messaging, not horse race, and the campaign had cut her off weeks earlier because Trump preferred to see her spinning on TV.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/conway-was-a-pollster-by-trade-but-she-tested-messaging-not-horse/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4a/joshua-green-3819_quote_conway-was-a-pollster-by-trade-but-she-t_1877147.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4a/joshua-green-3819_quote_conway-was-a-pollster-by-trade-but-she-t_1877147.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4a/joshua-green-3819_quote_conway-was-a-pollster-by-trade-but-she-t_1877147.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Conway was a pollster by trade, but she tested messaging, not horse race, and the campaign had cut her off…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 36,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“He loved the guy.” It was clear the connection was genuine, said Roger Stone, “because Steve is a slob, and Trump hates slobs.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/he-loved-the-guy-it-was-clear-the-connection-was-genuine-said-roger/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/726/joshua-green-3819_trump_he-loved-the-guy-it-was-clear-the-connec_115355.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/726/joshua-green-3819_trump_he-loved-the-guy-it-was-clear-the-connec_115355.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/726/joshua-green-3819_trump_he-loved-the-guy-it-was-clear-the-connec_115355.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“He loved the guy.” It was clear the connection was genuine, said Roger Stone, “because Steve is a slob, and…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 37,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Bring in Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway,” Mercer told him. “I’ve talked to them; they’ll do it.” Trump agreed.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/bring-in-steve-bannon-and-kellyanne-conway-mercer-told-him-i-ve/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6f/joshua-green-3819_steve-bannon_bring-in-steve-bannon-and-kellyanne-conw_1943298.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6f/joshua-green-3819_steve-bannon_bring-in-steve-bannon-and-kellyanne-conw_1943298.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6f/joshua-green-3819_steve-bannon_bring-in-steve-bannon-and-kellyanne-conw_1943298.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Bring in Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway,” Mercer told him. “I’ve talked to them; they’ll do it.” Trump…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 38,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Among those informed about immigration [the Gang of Eight bill] was shocking—a kick in the teeth to decent Americans,” said Jeff Sessions, then a staunchly anti-immigrant Republican senator from Alabama, who would later become Trump’s attorney general.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/among-those-informed-about-immigration-the-gang-of-eight-bill-was/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ee/joshua-green-3819_attorney-general_among-those-informed-about-immigration-t_1797216.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ee/joshua-green-3819_attorney-general_among-those-informed-about-immigration-t_1797216.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ee/joshua-green-3819_attorney-general_among-those-informed-about-immigration-t_1797216.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Among those informed about immigration [the Gang of Eight bill] was shocking—a kick in the teeth to decent…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 39,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“By exhuming the nationalist thinkers of an earlier age, Bannon was trying to build an intellectual basis for Trumpism, or what might more accurately be described as an American nationalist-Traditionalism. Whatever the label, Trump proved to be an able messenger.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/by-exhuming-the-nationalist-thinkers-of-an-earlier-age-bannon-was/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4df/joshua-green-3819_nationalist_by-exhuming-the-nationalist-thinkers-of_2852803.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4df/joshua-green-3819_nationalist_by-exhuming-the-nationalist-thinkers-of_2852803.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4df/joshua-green-3819_nationalist_by-exhuming-the-nationalist-thinkers-of_2852803.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“By exhuming the nationalist thinkers of an earlier age, Bannon was trying to build an intellectual basis for…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 40,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“The last few days have proven to be pivotal in the minds of voters with the recent revelations in reopening the investigation of Secretary Clinton,” it read. “Early polling numbers show declining support for Clinton, shifting in favor of Mr. Trump,”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joshua Green"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/the-last-few-days-have-proven-to-be-pivotal-in-the-minds-of-voters/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/660/joshua-green-3819_psychology_the-last-few-days-have-proven-to-be-pivo_521603.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/660/joshua-green-3819_psychology_the-last-few-days-have-proven-to-be-pivo_521603.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/660/joshua-green-3819_psychology_the-last-few-days-have-proven-to-be-pivo_521603.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The last few days have proven to be pivotal in the minds of voters with the recent revelations in reopening…” — Joshua Green",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/joshua-green/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/joshua-green/",
            "name": "Trump Quotes by Joshua Green",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/joshua-green/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5b/joshua-green-3819_mitt-romney_stuart-stevens-who-ran-mitt-romney-s-201_443584.jpg"
            },
            "description": "83 Trump quotes by Joshua Green. Plus more from Joshua Green and more Trump sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/joshua-green/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/joshua-green/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Trump",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Joshua Green",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/joshua-green/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```