“Trump, said Bannon, noting the obvious, was the least disciplined man in politics.” — Michael Wolff Politics Copy Share Image
“It didn't exactly surprise Bannon when Trump flipped; Bannon understood how easy it was to bullshit a bullshitter.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump’s repeated brags about his relationship with Vladimir Putin and the nature of Trump’s relationship with the Kremlin.” — Michael Wolff Putin Copy Share Image
“You could tell him whatever you wanted, but he knew what he knew, and if what you said contradicted what he knew,… — Michael Wolff Didn Believe Copy Share Image
“he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.” — Michael Wolff Goals Copy Share Image
“As often as not, he surprised himself. “What did I say?” he would ask after getting severe blowback.” — Michael Wolff Blowback Copy Share Image
One of the great business virtues of high publishing was that it was a difficult business to enter. You had to stand… — Michael Wolff Business Copy Share Image
“Trump added another tic, a lifelong sense that people were constantly taking unfair advantage of him.” — Michael Wolff Trump Copy Share Image
“If he was not having his six-thirty dinner with Steve Bannon, then, more to his liking, he was in bed by that… — Michael Wolff Cheeseburger Copy Share Image
Indeed, Rusbridger has finessed for the Guardian a certain willing suspension of disbelief and is able to credibly maintain conceits and moral… — Michael Wolff Guardian Copy Share Image
In the litany of issues that separate the two Americas - one more conservative and one more liberal, increasingly as opposed and… — Michael Wolff Conservative Copy Share Image
“When he came off the podium after delivering his address, he kept repeating, “Nobody will forget this speech.” George W. Bush, on… — Michael Wolff Communication Copy Share Image
“But not only didn’t he read, he didn’t listen. He preferred to be the person talking. And he trusted his own expertise—no… — Michael Wolff Attention span Copy Share Image
“Bannon invariably found some reason to study papers in the corner and then to have a last word; Priebus kept his eye… — Michael Wolff Trump Copy Share Image
“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 West wing Copy Share Image
Brexit and Trump are a generational revenge. This may partly be against millennial certainty and superiority, and, indeed, ageism; and it may… — Michael Wolff Ageism Copy Share Image
“Media is personal. It is a series of blood scores. The media in its often collective mind decides who is going to… — Michael Wolff Journalism Copy Share Image
“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 Attorney general Copy Share Image
“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 Intelligence community Copy Share Image
“Walsh, sitting within sight of the Oval Office, was located at something like the ground zero of the information flow between the… — Michael Wolff Ground zero Copy Share Image
“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 Game plan Copy Share Image
“For every member of the White House senior staff this would be the lasting conundrum of dealing with President Trump: the “why”… — Michael Wolff Habits Copy Share Image
“The point was, there didn’t need to be an answer because he wasn’t going to be president. Trump’s longtime friend Roger Ailes… — Michael Wolff Great future Copy Share Image
“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 Point of view Copy Share Image
“The leitmotif for Trump about his own campaign was how crappy it was and how everybody involved in it was a loser.” — Michael Wolff Trump Copy Share Image
The Clintons are one of the most closed political organisations operating in America today. It is a kind of secret society. — Michael Wolff America Copy Share Image
If institutions don't grow, they... well, I don't know what happens to them, because they always grow. I suppose the point is… — Michael Wolff Always Copy Share Image
“The president, while often a fabulist in his depiction of the world, was quite a literalist when it came to how he… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Even though Trump liked to portray his business as an empire, it was actually a discrete holding company and boutique enterprise,” — Michael Wolff Business Copy Share Image
Next to financial impropriety, being charged with a reckless pursuit of women is certainly the most damaging thing you can accuse a… — Michael Wolff Being Copy Share Image
“As for the looming defeat itself, she shrugged it off: it was Reince Priebus’s fault, not hers.” — Michael Wolff Defeat Copy Share Image
“It’s just a conspiracy theory.” And, he added, the Trump team wasn’t capable of conspiring about anything.” — Michael Wolff Conspiracy Copy Share Image
“This was why he had so naturally cottoned to the “fake news” label. “I’ve made stuff up forever, and they always print… — Michael Wolff Fake Copy Share Image
“But now, the new president-elect—after the most astonishing upset in American history—was on tenterhooks waiting for Murdoch.” — Michael Wolff American history Copy Share Image
“Jim Baker, chief of staff for both Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and almost everybody’s model for managing the West… — Michael Wolff Chief of staff Copy Share Image
“senior staff believed the president had a problem with reality, and reality was now overwhelming him.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“he acceded to anyone who seemed to know more about any issue he didn’t care about,” — Michael Wolff Didn Care Copy Share Image
“Careers advance by how well you learn on the job and how well you get along with the rest of the swamp… — Michael Wolff Career Copy Share Image
“Trump didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist.” — Michael Wolff Books Copy Share Image
“If Trump cared about something, he usually already had a fixed view based on limited information. If he didn’t care, he had… — Michael Wolff Trump Copy Share Image
