“The fabulous, incomprehensible irony that the Trump family had, despite the media’s distaste, despite everything the media knows and understands and has… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Previous presidents, and not just Clinton, have of course lacked scruples. What was, to many of the people who knew Trump well,… — Michael Wolff Cause and effect 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
“For anything that smacked of a classroom or of being lectured to—“professor” was one of his bad words, and he was proud… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“And Murdoch, finally arriving at the party he was in more than one way sorely late to, was as subdued and thrown… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump usually avoided: he had no interest in personnel problems, since they put the emphasis on other people.” — Michael Wolff 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
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
“It was a process of suggesting, in throw-it-against-the-wall style, what the president might want, and hoping he might then think that he… — Michael Wolff Wall St Copy Share Image
Every journalism bromide - speaking truth to power, comforting the afflicted, afflicting the powerful - that otherwise would be hopelessly sappy to… — Michael Wolff Business 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 Conflict Copy Share Image
“this was the fundamental hypothesis of the senior staff, shared by Walsh and everyone else: Trump must know what he was doing,… — Michael Wolff 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
“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
“Donald Trump, whose cruelties, always great even when they were casual, were unbearable when he truly turned against you.” — 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 Copy Share Image
“The Oval Office itself had been used by prior occupants as the ultimate power symbol, a ceremonial climax. But as soon as… — Michael Wolff White house 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 Copy Share Image
“fact-checkers from the magazine called him for comment about Scaramucci’s accusation that he sucked his own cock.)” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The story of Trump was the story of how he tried to make himself a story. He was shameless, campy, and instructive:… — Michael Wolff 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
“it was the Jarvanka idea to try to trade off amnesty for the border wall.” — Michael Wolff 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
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
