The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers.
The chance that Don Jr. did not walk these jumos up to his father’s office on the twenty-sixth floor is zero, said an astonished and derisive Bannon, not long after the meeting was revealed. The three...
The more acute the stress, the more active the leakers, the bigger the story.
The president fundamentally wants to be liked was Katie Walsh’s analysis. He just fundamentally needs to be liked so badly that it’s always … everything is a struggle for him. This translated into a c...
The president himself, absent any organizational rigor, often acted as his own chief of staff, or, in a sense, elevated the press secretary job to the primary staff job, and then functioned as his own...
The real question, of course, was how Bannon, the fuck-the-system populist, had ever come to think that he might get along with Donald Trump, the use-the-system-to-his-own-advantage billionaire
The two prosecutors also delved into the president’s personal life. How often did he cheat on his wife? With whom? How were trysts arranged? What were the president’s sexual interests?
The worry among staffers—all of them concerned that Trump’s rambling and his alarming repetitions (the same sentences delivered with the same expressions minutes apart) had significantly increased, an...
There was, curiously, general agreement in the West Wing that Donald Trump, the media president, had one of the most dysfunctional communication operations in modern White House history.
Trump certainly ran his business as though it were a criminal enterprise.
Trump didn't read. He didn't really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist...He was postliterate -- total television.
Trump had little or no interest in the central Republican goal of repealing Obamacare. An overweight seventy-year-old man with various physical phobias (for instance, he lied about his height to keep...
Trump had no real relationship with either father or daughter. He’d had only a few conversations with Bob Mercer, who mostly talked in monosyllables; Rebekah Mercer’s entire history with Trump consist...
Trump pardons were less judicial corrections or acts of forbearance and kindness than statements of defiance.
Trump saw the world through the filter of other people’s weaknesses.
Trump won’t read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored. And his staff is no better. Kushner is a...
Trump, as almost anyone who had ever worked for him appreciated, was, despite what you hoped he might be, Trump—and he would invariably sour on everyone around him.
Well, said the president, you won’t like the answer, but the answer is me. Me. I talk to myself.
Why? You’ve already done enough for him. You’re the best piece of tail he’ll ever have, sending Hicks running from the room.
And even Trump treated him rather like a dog who kept creeping back into the house.
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