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.
Indeed, in his first weeks in the White House, an inattentive Trump was already trying to curtail his schedule of meetings, limit his hours in the office, and keep his normal golf habits.
Trump is less a person than a collection of terrible traits.
In politics somebody has to lose, but invariably everybody thinks they can win.
Trump did not want a White House that ran by any method other than to satisfy his desires.
He’s supposed to be a fixer, said Trump about Cohen, but he breaks a lot of stuff. All of Trump’s people
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.
Haley had courted and befriended Ivanka, and Ivanka had brought her into the family circle, where she had become a particular focus of Trump’s attention, and he of hers. Haley, as had become increasin...
If the new right had elected Trump, it was the older Fortune 100 executives who most pleased him
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...
Trump as the man nearly everyone knew him to be: erratic, unfocused, impetuous, likely not of sound mind.
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 stories and they’re going to be the same stories over and over again. So y...
Now Bannon’s Zeitgeist moment had arrived. Everywhere there was a sudden sense of global self-doubt. Brexit in the UK, waves of immigrants arriving on Europe’s angry shores, the disenfranchisement of...
Theory 5: The Russians, holding damaging information about Trump, were blackmailing him. He was a Manchurian Candidate.
The unspoken agreement among them: not only would Donald Trump not be president, he should probably not be. Conveniently, the former conviction meant nobody had to deal with the latter issue.
The unspoken agreement among them: not only would Donald Trump not be president, he should probably not be.
In early February, an Obama administration lawyer friendly with Sally Yates remarked with some relish and considerable accuracy: It certainly is an odd circumstance if you live your life without regar...
A small man with a Mr. Magoo stature and an old-fashioned Southern accent, Sessions was bitterly mocked by the president, who drew a corrosive portrait of physical and mental weakness.
The president’s worst impulses seem to run through Conway without benefit of a filter.
I can’t say, ‘I want to put a Protestant on the Court for better representation.’ No, you can’t say that. But I should be able to. You should be able to have the main religion in this country represen...
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