A pro wrestling fan who became a World Wrestling Entertainment supporter and personality (inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame), Trump lived, like Hulk Hogan, as a real-life fictional character.
The organizational premise of the Trump White House: the family would always prevail.
The firing of FBI director James Comey may be the most consequential move ever made by a modern president acting entirely on his own.
The case against collusion with the Russians and the case for it. It was a case, or the lack of one, not of masterminds and subterfuge, but of senseless and benighted people so guileless and unconcern...
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...
He thought emotionally, not strategically.
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.
Weissmann had promised to see the investigation through to the end. But now, bitterly disappointed, he would tell friends, by how narrowly Mueller had come to focus the scope of the investigation, he...
Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives into bed.
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. Conveniently, the former conviction meant nobody had to deal with the latter issue.
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 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 Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers.
The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers. In that classic, Brooks’s larcenous and dopey heroes, Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, set...
That was the way to crush the liberals: make them crazy and drag them to the left.
Priebus had an agenda of his own: heeding Senate leader Mitch McConnell’s prescription that this president will sign whatever is put in front of him, while also taking advantage of the White House’s l...
Others were now recruited and, despite their obvious impressions of the man, agreed to sign on. Jim Mattis, a retired four-star general, one of the most respected commanders in the U.S. armed forces;...