Michael Wolff

Culture has no logic.

— Michael Wolff

“Casualness is the enemy of pretense.”

— Michael Wolff

“He was postliterate—total television.”

— Michael Wolff

“You can’t make this shit up.”

— Michael Wolff

“calamity of their own making.”

— Michael Wolff

“The Best and the Brightest”

— Michael Wolff

“This was the job Bannon a week later.”

— Michael Wolff

“The Best and the Brightest. (One of the”

— Michael Wolff

Voters seem to enjoy voting for what experts believe they won't vote for.

— Michael Wolff

“He simply hoped that difficult decisions would make themselves.”

— Michael Wolff

“Trump was Trump—careless, capricious, disloyal, far beyond any sort of control.”

— Michael Wolff

“It’s worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns.”

— Michael Wolff

“Some thought him dyslexic; certainly his comprehension was limited.”

— Michael Wolff

“The new politics was not the art of the compromise but the art of conflict.”

— Michael Wolff

“Trump is less a person than a collection of terrible traits.”

— Michael Wolff

“there was another rationalization: Trump was “inspirational not operational.”

— Michael Wolff

“the week of July 24 was a head-slammer. First, it opened the next episode in what had become a comic-opera”

— Michael Wolff

“He spoke obliviously and happily, believing himself to be a perfect pitch raconteur and public performer, while everyone with him held their…

— Michael Wolff

“The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers.”

— Michael Wolff

Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.

— Michael Wolff

“National Policy Institute, which is sometimes described as a “white supremacist think tank,”

— Michael Wolff

Trump loves the media. Trump understands the power it has and, accordingly, loves the people who have media power.

— Michael Wolff

Guns in America have an atavistic force. Possessing them, or the act of not possessing them, is an identity that seems to…

— Michael Wolff

“Well,” said the president, “you won’t like the answer, but the answer is me. Me. I talk to myself.”

— Michael Wolff

“Early in the campaign, in a Producers-worthy scene, Sam Nunberg was sent to explain the Constitution to the candidate: “I got as…

— Michael Wolff

Long-running scandal fuels targeted political media. It's the stuff of obsession, which is the basis of a passionate core audience. More obsession…

— Michael Wolff

“While nobody would ever say Trump was sensitive when it came to women, he had many views about how to get along…

— Michael Wolff

Corbyn and Trump don't seem to have anything in common except the assumption on the part of anyone subscribing at any level…

— Michael Wolff

Brexit and Trump are a generational revenge. This may partly be against millennial certainty and superiority, and, indeed, ageism; and it may…

— Michael Wolff

“The campaign staff, now suddenly in a position to snag West Wing jobs—career- and history-making jobs—had to see this odd, difficult, even…

— Michael Wolff

Every journalism bromide - speaking truth to power, comforting the afflicted, afflicting the powerful - that otherwise would be hopelessly sappy to…

— Michael Wolff

“Bannon invariably found some reason to study papers in the corner and then to have a last word; Priebus kept his eye…

— Michael Wolff

“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

“Haley had courted and befriended Ivanka, and Ivanka had brought her into the family circle, where she had become a particular focus…

— Michael Wolff

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

— Michael Wolff

“Media is personal. It is a series of blood scores. The media in its often collective mind decides who is going to…

— Michael Wolff

“Much of the left—which had resoundingly and scathingly rejected the intelligence community’s unambiguous assessment of Edward Snowden as a betrayer of national…

— Michael Wolff

“Even before there was reason to suspect Sally Yates, they suspected her. The transition report said Trump wouldn’t like the fifty-six-year-old Atlanta-born…

— Michael Wolff

“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

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

— Michael Wolff