But the point really was that Trump had wanted to confront and humiliate the FBI director. Cruelty was a Trump attribute.
While the Trump administration has made hostility to the press a virtual policy, it has also been more open to the media than any White House in recent memory.
Trump’s need for constant affirmation and his almost complete inability to talk about anything but himself.
This—insulting Donald Trump’s intelligence—was both the thing you could not do and the thing—drawing there-but-for-the-grace-of-God guffaws across the senior staff—that everybody was guilty of. Everyo...
It’s all exaggerated. My exaggerations are exaggerated.
I now understand what it is like to be in the court of the Tudors, reflected Bannon. On the campaign trail, he recalled, Newt Gingrich would come with all these dumb ideas. When we won he was my new b...
He answered emails in one word—partly a paranoia about email, but even more a controlling crypticness.
Fooling some of the people all of the time defined Trump’s hard-core base.
After the bill had been pulled that Friday, Katie Walsh, feeling both angry and disgusted, told Kushner she wanted out. Outlining what she saw as the grim debacle of the Trump White House, she spoke w...
Estimated Hannity’s net worth at $300 million to $400 million. From his earliest days as a big earner at the network, Hannity had invested in rental properties across the country. He may own every shi...
Trump’s wounded feelings—his sense of being shunned and unloved on the very day he became president—helped send that message. When he came off the podium after delivering his address, he kept repeatin...
Trade it out so in the end everyone got something, and the better dealmaker got a little more.
Shortly after Lewandowski, with whom Hicks had an on-and-off romantic relationship, was fired in June 2016 for clashing with Trump family members, Hicks sat in Trump Tower with Trump and his sons, wor...
Kushner saw the chance to convert the issue of the wall into a bilateral agreement addressing immigration—
It didn't exactly surprise Bannon when Trump flipped; Bannon understood how easy it was to bullshit a bullshitter.
In an age when all successful political candidates are surrounded by, if not at the beck and call of, difficult, even sociopathic, rich people pushing the bounds of their own power—and the richer they...
He was a rebel, a disruptor, and, living outside the rules, contemptuous of them. A close Trump friend who was also a good Bill Clinton friend found them eerily similar—except that Clinton had a respe...
He can’t walk down steps … can’t walk down hills. [He’s got] mental blocks … [He] can’t handle numbers … they have no meaning to him.
Early on, before getting down to attacking each other, Bannon and Kushner were united in their separate offensives against Priebus. Kushner’s preferred outlet was Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s...
Dina relied on Ivanka to offer regular assurances that not everyone named Trump was completely crazy.