White house Quotes by Michael Wolff

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

Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian…

— Michael Wolff

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

— Michael Wolff

“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

“Other than Trump himself, Bannon was certainly the oldest inexperienced person ever to work in the White House.”

— Michael Wolff

“(Almost everybody in the White House followed Trump’s thinking by tracking whom he had called the night before.)”

— Michael Wolff

“While the Trump administration has made hostility to the press a virtual policy, it has also been more open to the media…

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“Good management reduces ego. But in the Trump White House, it could often seem that nothing happened, that reality simply did not…

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“Reince Priebus, getting ready to shift over from the RNC to the White House, noted, with alarm, how often Trump offered people…

— Michael Wolff

“The Trump White House stood less for government and the push-pull of competing interests and developing policies, and more, in a brand-savvy…

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“For every member of the White House senior staff this would be the lasting conundrum of dealing with President Trump: the “why”…

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“Why did we do this on a Friday when it would hit the airports hardest and bring out the most protesters? almost…

— Michael Wolff

“In the early days of Trump’s presidency, the situation seemed clear to everybody: three men were fighting to run the White House,…

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“They take everything I’ve ever said and exaggerate it,” said the president in his first week in the White House during a…

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“By the second week of the Trump presidency, everybody in the White House seemed to be maintaining their own list of likely…

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“Walsh, sitting within sight of the Oval Office, was located at something like the ground zero of the information flow between the…

— Michael Wolff

“The greater White House wholly believed that the story was an invented construct of weak if not preposterous narrative threads, with a…

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“Indeed, the protesters who believed they were seeing the company’s relationship with Trump in political terms were actually seeing this in conventional…

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“Murdoch believed he understood better than younger men, even seventy-year-old Trump, that political power was fleeting. (This was in fact the same…

— Michael Wolff

“For whatever reason, almost everyone I contacted—senior members of the White House staff as well as dedicated observers of it—shared large amounts…

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“defiance of law and tone, and everybody’s disbelieving looks, the president seemed intent on surrounding himself in the White House with his…

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“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

“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

“During that first month, Walsh’s disbelief and even fear about what was happening in the White House moved her to think about…

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“The Oval Office itself had been used by prior occupants as the ultimate power symbol, a ceremonial climax. But as soon as…

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“The Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010 established funding for presidential nominees to start the process of vetting thousands of candidates for…

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“But most of the leaks, certainly the juiciest ones, were coming from the higher-ups—not to mention from the person occupying the topmost…

— Michael Wolff

“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

“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

“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

“His callers, largely because they found his conversation peculiar, alarming, or completely contrary to reason and common sense, often overrode what they…

— Michael Wolff

“The president couldn’t stop talking. He was plaintive and self-pitying, and it was obvious to everyone that if he had a north…

— Michael Wolff

“Kushner became the representative in the White House of the liberal status quo. He was something like what used to be called…

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“After the bill had been pulled that Friday, Katie Walsh, feeling both angry and disgusted, told Kushner she wanted out. Outlining what…

— Michael Wolff

“If the media, self-righteously, saw it as the Holy Grail and silver bullet of Trump destruction, and the Trump White House saw…

— Michael Wolff

“On May 17, twelve days after FBI director Comey was fired, without consulting the White House or the attorney general, Rosenstein appointed…

— Michael Wolff

“Steve Bannon was running the Steve Bannon White House, Jared Kushner was running the Michael Bloomberg White House, and Reince Priebus was…

— Michael Wolff

“But another likely leak source about his angst in the White House was Trump himself. In his calls throughout the day and…

— Michael Wolff

“There was, curiously, general agreement in the West Wing that Donald Trump, the media president, had one of the most dysfunctional communication…

— Michael Wolff

“Indeed, in his first weeks in the White House, an inattentive Trump was already trying to curtail his schedule of meetings, limit…

— Michael Wolff