“Scaramucci also took on Steve Bannon: “I’m not Steve Bannon. I’m not trying to suck my own cock.” (In fact, Bannon learned… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“On May 17, twelve days after FBI director Comey was fired, without consulting the White House or the attorney general, Rosenstein appointed… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the Egyptian strongman, ably stroked the president and said, “You are a unique personality that is capable of doing… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“He just keeps going,” Ailes had marveled to a friend after the first debate with Hillary Clinton. “You hit Donald along the… — Michael Wolff Debate 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
“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's intelligence, personal sense of higher calling and almost other-worldly self-absorption have played no small part in the stories that have most… — Michael Wolff Guardian 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
“It had personally pained Trump not to be able to give it to him. But if the Republican establishment had not wanted… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“If the Trump White House was as unsettling as any in American history, the president’s views of foreign policy and the world… — Michael Wolff American history Copy Share Image
“China’s everything. Nothing else matters. We don’t get China right, we don’t get anything right. This whole thing is very simple. China… — Michael Wolff China Copy Share Image
“In fact, up close, Trump was not the bombastic and pugilistic man who had stirred rabid crowds on the campaign trail. He… — Michael Wolff Modern history 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 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
“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
“For whatever reason, almost everyone I contacted—senior members of the White House staff as well as dedicated observers of it—shared large amounts… — Michael Wolff Time Copy Share Image
I can hardly tell you how boring it is to interview almost every politician among the multitudes I have ever interviewed (journalists… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Frank Sinatra was wrong,” said David Bossie, one of Trump’s longtime political advisers. “If you can make it in New York, you… — Michael Wolff 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
“Steve Bannon was running the Steve Bannon White House, Jared Kushner was running the Michael Bloomberg White House, and Reince Priebus was… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W Bush (and, in their image, Tony Blair) bitterly annoyed their antagonists because they were -… — Michael Wolff 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
“But when he was the federal prosecutor in New Jersey, Christie had sent Jared’s father, Charles Kushner, to jail in 2005. Charlie… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Bieber is the first mega YouTube star, born inexplicably out of a novel and disruptive medium. It has, of course, always been… — Michael Wolff Books 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 Copy Share Image
“Here’s the deal,” a close Trump associate told Priebus. “In an hour meeting with him you’re going to hear fifty-four minutes of… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
If you are identified with certain opinions and an ability to express them, and if you can build yourself an audience, a… — Michael Wolff Books 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
“McConnell and the president were barely on speaking terms. From his August “working holiday” in Bedminster, the president’s staff had tried to… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
At a particularly dicey moment in my own love life when I was interviewing Rupert Murdoch a number of years ago, I… — Michael Wolff Advice Copy Share Image
I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote… — Michael Wolff Ambition Copy Share Image
“And yet, the larger truth was that Ivanka’s relationship with her father was in no way a conventional family relationship. If it… — Michael Wolff Family Copy Share Image
I have never heard the word brand used so often as I did around The Guardian. Brand was the magical word, particularly… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Finally, there was a new rationale that Flynn should be fired not because of his Russian contacts, but because he had lied… — Michael Wolff Chain of command Copy Share Image
“A small man with a Mr. Magoo stature and an old-fashioned Southern accent, Sessions was bitterly mocked by the president, who drew… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The real question, of course, was how Bannon, the fuck-the-system populist, had ever come to think that he might get along with… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Not only did the president-elect wear his deep and bitter grievances on his sleeve, but it was now clear that the fact… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Two opposite and instructive figures in U.S. journalism during the Trump years are Gerard Baker, editor of the Wall Street Journal, and… — Michael Wolff Journalism Copy Share Image
“To everyone working in media in New York, Donald Trump represented the ultimate shame of working in media in New York: you… — Michael Wolff 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 Copy Share Image
