“Good management reduces ego. But in the Trump White House, it could often seem that nothing happened, that reality simply did not… — Michael Wolff Good man Copy Share Image
“Kushner had his personal press operation and Bannon had his. The leaking culture had become so open and overt—most of the time… — Michael Wolff Bannon Leaking Copy Share Image
“Trump was the one variable that, in management terms, simply could not be controlled. He was like a recalcitrant two-year-old. If you… — Michael Wolff Control Copy Share Image
With obvious irony, many of the left-leaning privacy advocates who might cheer Apple's stand against the government's intrusion into its system, are… — Michael Wolff Cybersecurity 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 Art Copy Share Image
“just when you felt on top of the world in the Trump administration, you could probably count on getting cut down. That… — Michael Wolff Insecure 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 Marriage Copy Share Image
Politics, which really is about the art of expression, ought to be a logical profession for writers (it's very hard to explain… — Michael Wolff Art Copy Share Image
“There was, in the space of little more than an hour, in Steve Bannon’s not unamused observation, a befuddled Trump morphing into… — Michael Wolff Trump Copy Share Image
Running for office, or suggesting you might, is no longer about being a politician but being an independent opinion or sensibility entrepreneur.… — Michael Wolff Business Copy Share Image
“Some seducers are preternaturally sensitive to the signals of those they try to seduce; others indiscriminately attempt to seduce, and, by the… — Michael Wolff Law of averages Copy Share Image
“Don’t let him piss off the press, don’t let him piss off the Republican Party, don’t threaten congressmen because they will fuck… — Michael Wolff Every day Copy Share Image
“In a continuing sign of Trump’s Rashomon effect—his speeches inspiring joy or horror—witnesses would describe his reception at the CIA as either… — Michael Wolff Communication Copy Share Image
“Trump talked nonstop and constantly repeated himself. “Here’s the deal,” a close Trump associate told Priebus. “In an hour meeting with him… — Michael Wolff Trump Copy Share Image
“The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers. In that classic, Brooks’s larcenous and… — Michael Wolff Broadway show Copy Share Image
“Just doing things became a Bannon principle, the sweeping antidote to bureaucratic and establishment ennui and resistance. It was the chaos of… — Michael Wolff Doing things Copy Share Image
“Shortly after Lewandowski, with whom Hicks had an on-and-off romantic relationship, was fired in June 2016 for clashing with Trump family members,… — Michael Wolff Family members Copy Share Image
“The chance that Don Jr. did not walk these jumos up to his father’s office on the twenty-sixth floor is zero,” said… — Michael Wolff Parenting Copy Share Image
“Trump had no real relationship with either father or daughter. He’d had only a few conversations with Bob Mercer, who mostly talked… — Michael Wolff Children Copy Share Image
“Bannon veered from “Mad Dog” Mattis—the retired four-star general whom Trump had nominated as secretary of defense—to a long riff on torture,… — Michael Wolff National security Copy Share Image
“What was, to many of the people who knew Trump well, much more confounding was that he had managed to win this… — Michael Wolff Cause and effect Copy Share Image
“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 Political power Copy Share Image
“Rebekah took a helicopter from their Long Island estate out to a scheduled fundraiser—with” — Michael Wolff Fundraiser Copy Share Image
The hold on power always ends. While death will surely break it, someone else usually grabs it before then. — Michael Wolff Always Copy Share Image
“Dina relied on Ivanka to offer regular assurances that not everyone named Trump was completely crazy.” — Michael Wolff Confidence Copy Share Image
“The first woman president, Ivanka entertained, would not be Hillary Clinton, it would be Ivanka Trump.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“To Trump, he was just up against Sally Yates, who was, he steamed, “such a cunt.” — Michael Wolff Cunt Copy Share Image
“It was, said Walsh, “like trying to figure out what a child wants.” — Michael Wolff Children Copy Share Image
“(Flynn was “a colonel in a general’s uniform,” according to one senior intelligence figure.)” — Michael Wolff Colonel Copy Share Image
“The unspoken agreement among them: not only would Donald Trump not be president, he should probably not be.” — Michael Wolff Donald trump Copy Share Image
“and the almost samizdat sharing, or gobsmacked retelling, of otherwise private and deep-background conversations” — Michael Wolff Communication Copy Share Image
“fundamental Bannonism: stop thinking you can somehow get along with your enemies.” — Michael Wolff Enemies Copy Share Image
“it was the Jarvanka idea to try to trade off amnesty for the border wall.” — Michael Wolff Amnesty Copy Share Image
“The daughter will take down the father,” said Bannon, in a Shakespearian mood.” — Michael Wolff Children Copy Share Image
“based on conversations that took place over a period of eighteen months with the president,” — Michael Wolff Communication Copy Share Image
“you don’t really have to know all that much yourself; you just do it differently than it was done before.” — Michael Wolff Differently Copy Share Image
“Other than Trump himself, Bannon was certainly the oldest inexperienced person ever to work in the White House.” — Michael Wolff Oldest Copy Share Image
In America, the new post-postmodern politician is all about authenticity: the daffier you are, the 'realer' you must be. The more you… — Michael Wolff America Copy Share Image
“A close Trump friend who was also a good Bill Clinton friend found them eerily similar—except that Clinton had a respectable front… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
