“there was another rationalization: Trump was “inspirational not operational.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Trump loves the media. Trump understands the power it has and, accordingly, loves the people who have media power. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Voters seem to enjoy voting for what experts believe they won't vote for. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump was Trump—careless, capricious, disloyal, far beyond any sort of control.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon had announced himself as Trump’s brain, a boast that vastly irritated the president.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The charge that Trump colluded with the Russians to win the election, which he scoffed at, was, in the estimation of some… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon invariably found some reason to study papers in the corner and then to have a last word; Priebus kept his eye… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump didn't read. He didn't really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist...He was postliterate -- total… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump, who referred to the Chinese leader as “Mr. X-i”; the president was told to think of him as a woman and… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Lewandowski and Hope Hicks, the PR aide put on the campaign by Ivanka Trump, had an affair that ended in a public… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump, even more than his father, was perceived as a vulgarian—after all, he put his name on his buildings, quite a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“If he was not having his six-thirty dinner with Steve Bannon, then, more to his liking, he was in bed by that… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Trump is a man who, for better or worse, stands in opposition to the institutions that dominate American political life. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump craved media approval. But, as Bannon emphasized, he was never going to get the facts right, nor was he ever going… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“With his misspellings and his use of 1970s lingo—“wire tapping” called up an image of FBI agents crouched in a van on… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Kushner, in fact, now believed Bannon would do anything to destroy them. This was personal. After months of defending Bannon against liberal… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“From the Bannon side, Pence garnered only contempt. “Pence is like the husband in Ozzie and Harriet, a nonevent,” said one Bannonite.… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“For every member of the White House senior staff this would be the lasting conundrum of dealing with President Trump: the “why”… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“While nobody would ever say Trump was sensitive when it came to women, he had many views about how to get along… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Operatives knew the game, and so did most candidates and officeholders. But Ailes was pretty sure Trump did not.Trump was undisciplined—he had… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“When he came off the podium after delivering his address, he kept repeating, “Nobody will forget this speech.” George W. Bush, on… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The point was, there didn’t need to be an answer because he wasn’t going to be president. Trump’s longtime friend Roger Ailes… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Walsh, sitting within sight of the Oval Office, was located at something like the ground zero of the information flow between the… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“He held his face in his hands for a moment and then looked up again. “I’m pretty good at coming up with… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“It was part hortatory, part personal testimony, part barstool blowhard, a rambling, disjointed, digressive, what-me-worry approach that combined aspects of cable television… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon, for instance, even driven by his imperative just to get things done, did not use a computer. How did he do… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“She treated her father with some lightness, even irony, and in at least one television interview she made fun of his comb-over.… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The story of Trump was the story of how he tried to make himself a story. He was shameless, campy, and instructive:… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Not only did Trump disregard the potential conflicts of his business deals and real estate holdings, he audaciously refused to release his… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Is Donald Trump an intellectual? Trust me, I’m like a smart person.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump, perhaps not yet appreciating the difference between becoming president and elevating his social standing,” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
If the president of the United States comes after you, you feel concerned. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Donald Trump doesn't necessarily stay mad for very long. He's a transactional guy. If you can offer him something, he will take it. Or… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“it confirmed Bannon’s worst fear: Trump, in his true heart, was a marshmallow.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“An important aspect of Kaplan’s New York Observer and its self-conscious inside media baseball was that the paper became the prime school for a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“The candidate who billed himself as a billionaire—ten times over—refused even to invest his own money in it.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share
If institutions don't grow, they... well, I don't know what happens to them, because they always grow. I suppose the point is that we… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“Even though Trump liked to portray his business as an empire, it was actually a discrete holding company and boutique enterprise,” — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“the organizational premise of the Trump White House: the family would always prevail.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“Trump, who referred to the Chinese leader as “Mr. X-i”; the president was told to think of him as a woman and call him… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“Donald Trump, even more than his father, was perceived as a vulgarian—after all, he put his name on his buildings, quite a déclassé thing… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your e-book. Please use the search function… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives into bed.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“The kids”—Jared and Ivanka—exhibited an increasingly panicked sense that the FBI and DOJ were moving beyond Russian election interference and into family finances. “Ivanka… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“Politics had seemed to become, even well before the age of Trump, a mortal affair. It was now zero-sum: When one side profited, another… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
