“China was the first front in a new cold war. And it had all been misunderstood” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“In practice, the new foreign policy, an effective Trump doctrine, was to reduce the board to three elements: powers we can work… — 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
“The face-off quickly escalated into an existential confrontation between the two sides of the White House—two sides on a total war footing.… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Fame, in Trumpian fashion, is war. You are expected to defend your fame; many people want to take it from you. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The new politics was not the art of the compromise but the art of conflict.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“You defined yourself by your enemy’s reaction. Conflict was the media bait—hence, now, the political chum. The new politics was not the… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W Bush (and, in their image, Tony Blair) bitterly annoyed their antagonists because they were -… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon averred: “When you take out all the never-Trump guys who signed all those letters and all the neocons who got us… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Here was yet another battle to be won or lost. Bannon regarded Kushner and Cohn (and Ivanka) as occupying an alternative reality… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Donald Trump doesn't necessarily stay mad for very long. He's a transactional guy. If you can offer him something, he will take it. Or… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“it confirmed Bannon’s worst fear: Trump, in his true heart, was a marshmallow.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“An important aspect of Kaplan’s New York Observer and its self-conscious inside media baseball was that the paper became the prime school for a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The candidate who billed himself as a billionaire—ten times over—refused even to invest his own money in it.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
If institutions don't grow, they... well, I don't know what happens to them, because they always grow. I suppose the point is that we… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Even though Trump liked to portray his business as an empire, it was actually a discrete holding company and boutique enterprise,” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“the organizational premise of the Trump White House: the family would always prevail.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump, who referred to the Chinese leader as “Mr. X-i”; the president was told to think of him as a woman and call him… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump, even more than his father, was perceived as a vulgarian—after all, he put his name on his buildings, quite a déclassé thing… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your e-book. Please use the search function… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives into bed.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
