Trump could bring Trumpism down...
Trump, in Bannon's view, was a chapter, or even a detour, in the Trump revolution, which had always been about weakness in the two major parties. The Trump presidency - however long it lasted - had cr...
Of the many Trump gashes in modern major-power governing, you could certainly drive a Trojan horse through his lack of foreign policy particulars and relationships.
Having attained the unimaginable—bringing a fierce alt-right, antiliberal ethnopopulism into a central place in the White House—Bannon found himself face to face with the untenable: undermined by and...
Insecurity was soothed by entitlement.
Trump was, for Bannon, a modern-day William Jennings Bryan.
Trump, in a smart move, picked up his media reputation and relocated it from a hypercritical New York to a more value-free Hollywood, becoming the star of his own reality show, The Apprentice, and emb...
He had no interest in precision, or even any ability to be precise.
The New York real estate deals were dirty, the Atlantic City ventures were dirty, the Trump airline was dirty, Mar-a-Lago, the golf courses, and the hotels all dirty. No reasonable candidate could hav...
He had no ability to distinguish the important from the less important. There seemed to be no such thing as objective reality.
—crowded out most other voices on the subject of whatever new crisis was engulfing the Trump administration. These quotes functioned as something like a stage whisper that Trump could pretend he didn’...
The daughter will take down the father, said Bannon, in a Shakespearian mood.
Theory 2: Trump was part of a less-than-blue-chip (much less) international business set, feeding off the rivers of dubious wealth that had been unleashed by all the efforts to move cash, much of it f...
The first couple of times when I went to the White House, someone had to say, This is Mick Mulvaney, he’s the budget director, said Mulvaney. And in Mulvaney’s telling Trump was too scattershot to eve...
This was his fundamental innovation in governing: regular, uncontrolled bursts of anger and spleen.
Son-in-law Kushner had been marked not just for ignominy, but for slow torture by ridicule, contempt, and ever-more amusing persiflage. These people are nothing. They are media debris. For goodness’ s...
While the Trump administration has made hostility to the press a virtual policy, it has also been more open to the media than any White House in recent memory.
The leitmotif for Trump about his own campaign was how crappy it was and how everybody involved in it was a loser.
Trump’s need for constant affirmation and his almost complete inability to talk about anything but himself.
For each of his enemies—and, actually, for each of his friends—the issue for him came down, in many ways, to their personal press plan. The media was the battlefield. Trump assumed everybody wanted hi...
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