Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives into bed.
Trump is less a person than a collection of terrible traits.
Trump didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semiliterate.
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 craved media approval. But, as Bannon emphasized, he was never going to get the facts right, nor was he ever going to acknowledge that he got them wrong, so therefore he was not going to get tha...
Trump could only be part of an organization that attended to him with unalloyed devotion; he could not really imagine another type. He insisted that the White House operate more like the Trump Organiz...
Trump certainly ran his business as though it were a criminal enterprise.
To Walsh, the proud political pro, the chaos, the rivalries, and the president’s own lack of focus and lack of concern were simply incomprehensible.
This was why he had so naturally cottoned to the fake news label. I’ve made stuff up forever, and they always print it, he bragged.
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...
The unspoken agreement among them: not only would Donald Trump not be president, he should probably not be.
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 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 next day Kellyanne Conway, her aggressive posture during the campaign turning more and more to petulance and self-pity, asserted the new president’s right to claim alternative facts. As it happene...
The more acute the stress, the more active the leakers, the bigger the story.
The less likely a presidential candidate is, the more unlikely, and, often, inexperienced, his aides are—that is, an unlikely candidate can attract only unlikely aides, as the likely ones go to the mo...
The greater White House wholly believed that the story was an invented construct of weak if not preposterous narrative threads, with a mind-boggling thesis: We fixed the election with the Russians, OM...
The fact that he had stayed out of jail showed, impressively for many, how easily the system could be played. Seen from this point of view, he really might be a genius.
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 Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers.