The DOJ, the president’s source told him, was filled with women who hated him.
That was the way to crush the liberals: make them crazy and drag them to the left.
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,
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...
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...
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...
One day, when Kushner accused Walsh of leaking about him, she challenged him back: My phone records versus yours, my email versus yours.
Murdoch suggested that taking a liberal approach to H-1B visas might be hard to square with his immigration promises. But Trump seemed unconcerned, assuring Murdoch, We’ll figure it out.
Much of the president’s daily conversation was a repetitive rundown of what various anchors and hosts had said about him.
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...
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,...
It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything.… Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.
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...
His sons, Don Jr. and Eric—behind their backs known to Trump insiders as Uday and Qusay, after the sons of Saddam Hussein—wondered if there couldn’t somehow be two parallel White House structures, one...
His senior staff largely dealt with these dark hours by agreeing with him, no matter what he said.
Hicks, sponsored by Ivanka and ever loyal to her, was in fact thought of as Trump’s real daughter, while Ivanka was thought of as his real wife.
Here was yet another battle to be won or lost. Bannon regarded Kushner and Cohn (and Ivanka) as occupying an alternative reality that had little bearing on the real Trump revolution. Kushner and Cohn...
He would never be able to untangle his holdings and interests—including big investments in the Middle East—in a way that would satisfy ethics watchdogs.
He was, after all, Donald Trump, however much you shined him up.
He was postliterate—total television.