“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
“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
The emerging notion of the Eighties was that publicity was a currency. The old view was that if you had a currency… — Michael Wolff Attention Copy Share Image
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 Achieve Copy Share Image
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 Crazy Copy Share Image
“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 Constitution Copy Share Image
“The charge that Trump colluded with the Russians to win the election, which he scoffed at, was, in the estimation of some… — Michael Wolff Trump Copy Share Image
Before even getting to David Cameron's father here's a starting-point question about the Panama Papers: how is the desire to break the… — Michael Wolff Anonymity 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 media, adopting a “shocked, shocked” morality, could not fathom how being factually wrong was not an absolute ending in itself. How… — Michael Wolff False witness Copy Share Image
“When the president got on the phone after dinner, it was often a rambling affair. In paranoid or sadistic fashion, he’d speculate… — Michael Wolff Trump Copy Share Image
“His son-in-law and daughter hoped—they were even confident—that they could speak to DJT’s better self, or at least balance Republican needs with… — Michael Wolff Children Copy Share Image
“The next day Kellyanne Conway, her aggressive posture during the campaign turning more and more to petulance and self-pity, asserted the new… — Michael Wolff Fake news Copy Share Image
“while he was often most influenced by the last person he spoke to, he did not actually listen to anyone. So it… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump had little or no interest in the central Republican goal of repealing Obamacare. An overweight seventy-year-old man with various physical phobias… — Michael Wolff Goals Copy Share Image
“In Bannon’s view: (1) Trump was never going to change; (2) trying to get him to change would surely cramp his style;… — Michael Wolff 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
I'm not a daily reporter. I'm not a newspaper reporter, I'm not a political reporter. — Michael Wolff Daily Copy Share Image
“He was the winner and now expected to be the object of awe, fascination, and favor. He expected this to be binary:… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump became a symbol of the media’s own self-loathing: the interest in and promotion of Donald Trump was a morality tale… — Michael Wolff Donald trump Copy Share Image
“said the president in his first week in the White House during a late-night call. “It’s all exaggerated. My exaggerations are exaggerated.” — Michael Wolff Exaggerated Copy Share Image
“the organizational premise of the Trump White House: the family would always prevail.” — Michael Wolff Family Copy Share Image
“he had acquired almost no formal sort of social discipline—he could not even attempt to imitate decorum.” — Michael Wolff Discipline Copy Share Image
“They were all concerned that Trump did not understand what he was up against. That there was simply not enough method to… — Michael Wolff Concerned Copy Share Image
“His senior staff largely dealt with these dark hours by agreeing with him, no matter what he said.” — Michael Wolff Staff Largely Copy Share Image
“He clearly did not understand that what conservative media elevated, liberal media would necessarily take down.” — Michael Wolff Liberal media Copy Share Image
“the more doubts gathered around Flynn, the more certain the president became that Flynn was his all-important ally.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Theory 4: But then there was the those-that-know-him-best theory, some version of which most Trumpers would come to embrace. He was just star-fucking.” — Michael Wolff Trump Copy Share Image
“Bannon, with mounting ferocity and pubic venom, could abide them less and less every day.” — Michael Wolff Every day Copy Share Image
“He would never be able to untangle his holdings and interests—including big investments in the Middle East—in a way that would satisfy… — Michael Wolff Investing Copy Share Image
“Kushner, in fact, now believed Bannon would do anything to destroy them. This was personal. After months of defending Bannon against liberal… — Michael Wolff Trump Copy Share Image
