For each of his enemies—and, actually, for each of his friends—the issue for him came down, in many ways, to their personal press plan. The media was the battlefield. Trump assumed everybody wanted hi...
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...
He answered emails in one word—partly a paranoia about email, but even more a controlling crypticness.
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...
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...
Fooling some of the people all of the time defined Trump’s hard-core base.
It didn't exactly surprise Bannon when Trump flipped; Bannon understood how easy it was to bullshit a bullshitter.
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...
He wasn’t going to win! Or losing was winning.
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...
Trade it out so in the end everyone got something, and the better dealmaker got a little more.
Kushner saw the chance to convert the issue of the wall into a bilateral agreement addressing immigration—
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.
Even though Trump liked to portray his business as an empire, it was actually a discrete holding company and boutique enterprise,
Dina relied on Ivanka to offer regular assurances that not everyone named Trump was completely crazy.
Expertise was the last refuge of liberals, ever defeated by the big picture.
I was in Russia years ago with the Ms. Universe contest—did very very well—I tell everyone be careful, because you don’t want to see yourself on television—cameras all over the place. And again, not j...
Trying to win without consideration, plan, or clear goals had, in the course of the administration’s first nine months, resulted in almost nothing but losses.
Among Trump’s first moves as president was to have a series of inspirational photographs in the West Wing replaced with images of big crowd scenes at his inaugural ceremony.
It’s all exaggerated. My exaggerations are exaggerated.
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