A contemptuous Hannity, with grandiose ambitions of his own, insisted that this scenario was ludicrous. He would top the ticket, with Bannon, if he’s lucky, taking the second spot.
Mitch McConnell's prescription that this president will sign whatever is put in front of him.
The president was likely a fool and certainly a liar.
Son. The aide went on giddily talking about the special bond golfing dads have with their sons until it was clear that he was getting the Trump freeze—an ability to pretend you didn’t exist while at t...
Senior staff believed the president had a problem with reality, and reality was now overwhelming him.
President might have been involved usually became
Kibosh
In the larger Trump view, it was during the cold war that time and circumstance gave the United States its greatest global advantage. That was when America was great.
In a world increasingly swayed by private wealth and personal brands.
Well, said the president, you won’t like the answer, but the answer is me. Me. I talk to myself.
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.
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 was Trump—careless, capricious, disloyal, far beyond any sort of control.
Trump pardons were less judicial corrections or acts of forbearance and kindness than statements of defiance.
Trump certainly ran his business as though it were a criminal enterprise.
The Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010 established funding for presidential nominees to start the process of vetting thousands of candidates for jobs in a new administration, codifying p...
Steve wants to force a million people out of the country and repeal the nation’s health law and lay on a bunch of tariffs that will completely decimate how we trade,
Pivoting from Trump himself, Bannon plunged on with the Trump agenda. Day one we’re moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Netanyahu’s all in. Sheldon—Sheldon Adelson, the casino billionaire, far-right...
Later that evening, a concert at the Lincoln Memorial, part of an always awkward effort to import pop culture to Washington, ended up, absent any star power, with Trump himself taking the stage as the...
Just doing things became a Bannon principle, the sweeping antidote to bureaucratic and establishment ennui and resistance. It was the chaos of just doing things that actually got things done. Except,...