During my many hours on the Acela, I have taken to watching 'The West Wing,' Aaron Sorkin's drama of an idealised White… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“While the Trump administration has made hostility to the press a virtual policy, it has also been more open to the media… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“(Almost everybody in the White House followed Trump’s thinking by tracking whom he had called the night before.)” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“said the president in his first week in the White House during a late-night call. “It’s all exaggerated. My exaggerations are exaggerated.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“the organizational premise of the Trump White House: the family would always prevail.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“By the second week of the Trump presidency, everybody in the White House seemed to be maintaining their own list of likely… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Kushner became the representative in the White House of the liberal status quo. He was something like what used to be called… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“In the early days of Trump’s presidency, the situation seemed clear to everybody: three men were fighting to run the White House,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Why did we do this on a Friday when it would hit the airports hardest and bring out the most protesters? almost… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“They take everything I’ve ever said and exaggerate it,” said the president in his first week in the White House during a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The Trump White House stood less for government and the push-pull of competing interests and developing policies, and more, in a brand-savvy… — 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
“Reince Priebus, getting ready to shift over from the RNC to the White House, noted, with alarm, how often Trump offered people… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The greater White House wholly believed that the story was an invented construct of weak if not preposterous narrative threads, with a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the protesters who believed they were seeing the company’s relationship with Trump in political terms were actually seeing this in conventional… — 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
“She was a nonevent on the campaign. She became a White House staffer and that’s when people suddenly realized she’s dumb as… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The first couple of times when I went to the White House, someone had to say, This is Mick Mulvaney, he’s the… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“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
“Kushner’s preferred outlet was Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s Morning Joe, one of the president’s certain morning shows. Bannon’s first port of… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“defiance of law and tone, and everybody’s disbelieving looks, the president seemed intent on surrounding himself in the White House with his… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010 established funding for presidential nominees to start the process of vetting thousands of candidates for… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon, who styled himself as a kind of black hole of silence, had also become a sort of official black-hole voice, everybody’s… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“During that first month, Walsh’s disbelief and even fear about what was happening in the White House moved her to think about… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Not taking off his dark overcoat, lending him quite a hulking gangster look, pacing in front of the CIA’s wall of stars… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Early on, before getting down to attacking each other, Bannon and Kushner were united in their separate offensives against Priebus. Kushner’s preferred… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“But this sense of duty and virtue involved a complicated calculation about your positive effect on the White House versus its negative… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump did not enjoy his own inauguration. He had hoped for a big blowout. Tom Barrack, the would-be showman—in addition to Michael… — 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
“As Walsh saw it, Steve Bannon was running the Steve Bannon White House, Jared Kushner was running the Michael Bloomberg White House,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Indeed, in his first weeks in the White House, an inattentive Trump was already trying to curtail his schedule of meetings, limit… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“There was, curiously, general agreement in the West Wing that Donald Trump, the media president, had one of the most dysfunctional communication… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Steve Bannon was running the Steve Bannon White House, Jared Kushner was running the Michael Bloomberg White House, and Reince Priebus was… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“After the bill had been pulled that Friday, Katie Walsh, feeling both angry and disgusted, told Kushner she wanted out. Outlining what… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“For whatever reason, almost everyone I contacted—senior members of the White House staff as well as dedicated observers of it—shared large amounts… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“His callers, largely because they found his conversation peculiar, alarming, or completely contrary to reason and common sense, often overrode what they… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bob Woodward’s 1994 book, The Agenda, is a blow-by-blow account of the first eighteen months of the Clinton White House, most of… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“If the Trump White House was as unsettling as any in American history, the president’s views of foreign policy and the world… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Good management reduces ego. But in the Trump White House, it could often seem that nothing happened, that reality simply did not… — 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
