Crazy was a potent enemy against the establishment, but how to predict what a crazy man will do?
Donald Trump, even more than his father, was perceived as a vulgarian—after all, he put his name on his buildings, quite a déclassé thing to do.
Donald Trump’s marriage was perplexing to almost everybody around him—or it was, anyway, for those without private jets and many homes. He and Melania spent relatively little time together. They could...
Donald, you can’t do it. You’ve made your bed and Steve is in it.
Good management reduces ego. But in the Trump White House, it could often seem that nothing happened, that reality simply did not exist, if it did not happen in Trump’s presence.
He had little doubt that Trump was guilty of most of what he was accused of. How did he get the dough for the primary and then for the general with his ‘liquidity’ issues? asked Bannon with his hands...
He knew where this Russia stuff was coming from, and if these Obama people thought they were going to get away with it they had another think coming. He would expose them all!
If Ryan could be counted on to handle Congress, thought the president, well, phew, that takes care of that.
In practice, the new foreign policy, an effective Trump doctrine, was to reduce the board to three elements: powers we can work with, powers we cannot work with, and those without enough power whom we...
It was yet one more example, among his many now, of the comic-absurd, movielike politician who just says whatever is on his mind. Unmediated. Crazylike.
McConnell’s contempt for Trump was boundless. He was not just the stupidest president McConnell had ever dealt with, he was the stupidest person McConnell had ever met in politics—and that was saying...
Murdoch believed he understood better than younger men, even seventy-year-old Trump, that political power was fleeting. (This was in fact the same message he had imparted to Barack Obama.) A president...
No one in the country, or on earth, has given less thought to health insurance than Donald, said Roger Ailes. Pressed in a campaign interview about the importance of Obamacare repeal and reform, Trump...
Of the many Trump gashes in modern major-power governing, you could certainly drive a Trojan horse through his lack of foreign policy particulars and relationships. This presented a do-over opportunit...
One day, when Kushner accused Walsh of leaking about him, she challenged him back: My phone records versus yours, my email versus yours.
One instance of his revisionism, and of the new stature he now seemed to assume as president, involved the lowest point of the campaign—the Billy Bush tape. His explanation, in an off-the-record conve...
Salesmen, whose primary characteristic and main asset is their ability to keep selling, constantly recast the world in positive terms. Discouragement for everyone else is merely the need to improve re...
So frustrating that they just want to get the deal done—get their fee and get out. If the client won’t acknowledge the rituals in a highly ritualized situation…if people don’t listen, if they can’t li...
Some seducers are preternaturally sensitive to the signals of those they try to seduce; others indiscriminately attempt to seduce, and, by the law of averages, often succeed (this latter group of men...
The DOJ, the president’s source told him, was filled with women who hated him.
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