“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
“Finally, it was the right-wing diva and Trump supporter Ann Coulter who took the president-elect aside and said, “Nobody is apparently telling… — Michael Wolff Trump Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump, whose cruelties, always great even when they were casual, were unbearable when he truly turned against you.” — Michael Wolff Cruelties Copy Share Image
“Trump quite profoundly seemed unable to distinguish between his political advantage and his personal needs—he thought emotionally, not strategically.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“On March 27, the Office of American Innovation was created and Kushner was put in charge. Its stated mission was to reduce… — Michael Wolff American Innovation Copy Share Image
“One day, when Kushner accused Walsh of leaking about him, she challenged him back: “My phone records versus yours, my email versus… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“His strategic belief was that there was no reason not to heap excessive puffery on a prospect. But if the prospect was… — Michael Wolff Faith Copy Share Image
Reality television is to television what marble and gold are to real estate. The point is to dispense with the idea of… — Michael Wolff Better Copy Share Image
“On June 9, 2016, Don Jr., Jared, and Paul Manafort met with a movieworthy cast of dubious characters in Trump Tower after… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The theory, suddenly presented as just this side of a likelihood, was that the Russians had suborned Donald Trump during a trip… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Others were now recruited and, despite their obvious impressions of the man, agreed to sign on. Jim Mattis, a retired four-star general,… — Michael Wolff Armed forces Copy Share Image
Along with Trump, there are few people, on either the right or the left, who would defend the system. The system is,… — Michael Wolff Broken 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 War Copy Share Image
“And then there was the harsh fact that the world of Manhattan and particular its living voice, the media, seemed to cruelly… — Michael Wolff Life Copy Share Image
“Bannon, Conway, and Hicks—along with an assortment of more or less peculiar ideologues that had attached themselves to Trump and, of course,… — Michael Wolff Family Copy Share Image
“For Walsh, it was a daily process of managing an impossible task: almost as soon as she received direction from one of… — 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 Neocons Copy Share Image
“the president-elect spoke with little information and frequently no factual basis, while “the frame the media has chosen to embrace is that… — Michael Wolff Abuse of power Copy Share Image
“the president’s views of foreign policy and the world at large were among its most random, uninformed, and seemingly capricious aspects.” — Michael Wolff Foreign policy Copy Share Image
“Sean Spicer, whose job was literally to explain what people did and why, often simply could not—because nobody really had a job,… — Michael Wolff Trump Copy Share Image
“The president himself, absent any organizational rigor, often acted as his own chief of staff, or, in a sense, elevated the press… — Michael Wolff Chief of staff Copy Share Image
This American right to bear arms with, practically, a Muslim fierceness, sometimes seems as if it must be age-old, an ancient tradition… — Michael Wolff Amendment Copy Share Image
“But another likely leak source about his angst in the White House was Trump himself. In his calls throughout the day and… — Michael Wolff Leak Copy Share Image
“(This required some tutoring for Trump, who referred to the Chinese leader as “Mr. X-i”; the president was told to think of… — Michael Wolff Leadership Copy Share Image
“His sons, Don Jr. and Eric—jokingly behind their backs known to Trump insiders as Uday and Qusay, after the sons of Saddam… — Michael Wolff Trump Copy Share Image
One of the frustrations of the Republicans is that they have been mostly unsuccessful in equating the word Clinton with Mafia, which,… — Michael Wolff Democracy Copy Share Image
“Murdoch suggested that taking a liberal approach to H-1B visas might be hard to square with his immigration promises. But Trump seemed… — Michael Wolff Trump Copy Share Image
“He knew where this Russia stuff was coming from, and if these Obama people thought they were going to get away with… — Michael Wolff People Thought Copy Share Image
Being the governor of New York is a mighty job because of the city of New York. You would not want to… — Michael Wolff Being Copy Share Image
“His was a zero-sum ecosystem. In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had… — Michael Wolff Trump Copy Share Image
Rusbridger had risen at the Guardian through the years when it not only had the support and fail-safe mechanism of the Scott… — Michael Wolff Advertising Copy Share Image
“Trump, the unserious candidate, had, however incomprehensibly, become a more or less serious one. And somehow, because of his prior unseriousness, and… — Michael Wolff Beauty Copy Share Image
“Later that evening, a concert at the Lincoln Memorial, part of an always awkward effort to import pop culture to Washington, ended… — Michael Wolff Lincoln memorial Copy Share Image
What's wrong with politics in the celebrity billionaire analysis is politicians. Populism is not so much a cry for economic equality, or… — Michael Wolff Economic equality Copy Share Image
“The Breitbart formula was to so appall the liberals that the base was doubly satisfied, generating clicks in a ricochet of disgust… — Michael Wolff Art form Copy Share Image
“Hence, the new operating principle was simple: do the opposite of what they (Obama, but the Bush neocons, too) would do. Their… — Michael Wolff Habits Copy Share Image
