Trump quite profoundly seemed unable to distinguish between his political advantage and his personal needs—he thought emotionally, not strategically.
Trump simply could not abide the knowledge that somebody was getting a leg up at his expense. His was a zero-sum ecosystem. In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to hi...
Trump was Trump—careless, capricious, disloyal, far beyond any sort of control.
Trump was effusive in his praise for Kushner. Jared’s gotten the Arabs totally on our side. Done deal, he assured one of his after-dinner callers before leaving on the trip. It’s going to be beautiful...
Trump, one guest noted, always more salesman than politician, seemed to have the capacity to focus only on the good news.
Trump’s home in Beverly Hills
We serve at the president’s displeasure,
We serve at the president’s displeasure, another.
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...
What has he gotten himself into with the Russians? pressed Ailes. Mostly, said Bannon, he went to Russia and he thought he was going to meet Putin. But Putin couldn’t give a shit about him. So he’s ke...
Fact-checkers from the magazine called him for comment about Scaramucci’s accusation that he sucked his own cock.)
He had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.
Most of the leaks, certainly the juiciest ones, were coming from the higher-ups—not to mention from the person occupying the topmost echelon. The president couldn’t stop talking.
Myrmidons,
Persiflage.
Purpose of actually changing the country. Changing it quickly, radically, and truly.
Resisters, working in the Trump White House, who had come to see themselves as patriots protecting the country from the president they worked for.
Senior staff believed the president had a problem with reality, and reality was now overwhelming him.
Television host directing the president to do whatever might most compel a television audience—took the game a big step further.
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...
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