“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 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
“Other than Trump himself, Bannon was certainly the oldest inexperienced person ever to work in the White House.” — Michael Wolff 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
“based on conversations that took place over a period of eighteen months with the president,” — Michael Wolff Communication Copy Share Image
“Bannon, with mounting ferocity and pubic venom, could abide them less and less every day.” — 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 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
“most of all don’t let him piss off the intel community,” said one national Republican figure to Kushner. “If you fuck with… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Jared and Ivanka had made an earnest deal between themselves: if sometime in the future the time came, she’d be the one… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
I am in the representational business, a portraitist. I have tried to walk an amused line amid hyperbole, documentary detail, cruel characterisation,… — Michael Wolff Business Copy Share Image
Curiously, many Democrats have acceded to Clintonism not because of their cold practicality and political professionalism, but because the Clintons are the… — Michael Wolff Cold Copy Share Image
“In the early days of Trump’s presidency, the situation seemed clear to everybody: three men were fighting to run the White House,… — Michael Wolff Chief of staff Copy Share Image
“But, as Bannon emphasized, he was never going to get the facts right, nor was he ever going to acknowledge that he… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump problem. He hopelessly personalized everything. He saw the world in commercial and show business terms: someone else was always trying to… — Michael Wolff Business Copy Share Image
“He was a rebel, a disruptor, and, living outside the rules, contemptuous of them. A close Trump friend who was also a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Do nothing” had long been viewed as an unacceptable position of helplessness by American foreign policy experts. The instinct to do something… — Michael Wolff Isolationism 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 Oval office Copy Share Image
“The Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010 established funding for presidential nominees to start the process of vetting thousands of candidates for… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“One instance of his revisionism, and of the new stature he now seemed to assume as president, involved the lowest point of… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The country built on the virtue and the character and the strength of the American workingman circa 1955–65 was the ideal he… — Michael Wolff American culture Copy Share Image
“Trump didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist. Some believed that for… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The greater White House wholly believed that the story was an invented construct of weak if not preposterous narrative threads, with a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The three senior guys in the campaign,” an incredulous Bannon went on, “thought it was a good idea to meet with a… — Michael Wolff Politics Copy Share Image
“he acceded to anyone who seemed to know more about any issue he didn’t care about,” — Michael Wolff 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 Copy Share Image
“senior staff believed the president had a problem with reality, and reality was now overwhelming him.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The first woman president, Ivanka entertained, would not be Hillary Clinton, it would be Ivanka Trump.” — Michael Wolff 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
“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
“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
“(Flynn was “a colonel in a general’s uniform,” according to one senior intelligence figure.)” — 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 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
“(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
I'm not a daily reporter. I'm not a newspaper reporter, I'm not a political reporter. — Michael Wolff 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 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
