There were too many members of the House. He couldn’t remember their names. He launched into dramatic eye-rolling when told where they were from. Flyovers, he said. Men’s shop salesmen.
Theory 5: The Russians, holding damaging information about Trump, were blackmailing him. He was a Manchurian Candidate.
The real swamp is the swamp of insular, inbred, incestuous interests.
The president couldn’t stop talking. He was plaintive and self-pitying, and it was obvious to everyone that if he had a north star, it was just to be liked. He was ever uncomprehending about why every...
The mantra was simple: if there was no Wall, there was no Trump. Stopping immigration was the Trump story.
The fact that Trump had become the ultimate avatar of Fox’s angry common man was another sign that we were living in an upside-down world.
The fabulous, incomprehensible irony that the Trump family had, despite the media’s distaste, despite everything the media knows and understands and has said about them, risen to a level not only of u...
The Mexican president refused to construct a pretense for paying for the wall, a pretense that might have redounded to his vast advantage (without his having to actually pay for the wall).
Steve Bannon was running the Steve Bannon White House, Jared Kushner was running the Michael Bloomberg White House, and Reince Priebus was running the Paul Ryan White House.
Speaker Boehner. (John Boehner had been the Speaker of the House until he was forced out in a Tea Party putsch in 2011.)
Sooner or later, Trump felt contempt for anyone who showed him too much devotion.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, an anti-immigration figure and Trump supporter, got a pardon. So did Scooter Libby, the Bush administration leaker whom President Bush, a frequent target of Trump derision, had fai...
Sean Spicer, whose job was literally to explain what people did and why, often simply could not—because nobody really had a job, because nobody could do a job.
On May 17, twelve days after FBI director Comey was fired, without consulting the White House or the attorney general, Rosenstein appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller to oversee the investigat...
On March 27, the Office of American Innovation was created and Kushner was put in charge. Its stated mission was to reduce federal bureaucracy—that is, to reduce it by creating more of it, a committee...
Not only did Trump disregard the potential conflicts of his business deals and real estate holdings, he audaciously refused to release his tax returns. Why should he if he wasn’t going to win? What’s...
New York, the world’s largest Jewish city.
National Policy Institute, which is sometimes described as a white supremacist think tank,
Most members of Mueller’s staff were already planning their exits. The once collegial mood among the nineteen attorneys who had worked on the investigation had turned, at best, sullen. Two years of in...
Most especially, he was miserable because of Donald Trump, whose cruelties, always great even when they were casual, were unbearable when he truly turned against you.