The president’s views of foreign policy and the world at large were among its most random, uninformed, and seemingly capricious aspects.
Some had idly speculated about how long he would go on if he could command time as well as language. The consensus seemed to be forever. The sound of his own voice, his lack of inhibition, the fact th...
Just worry about who’s jerking whose chain.
If they don’t respond to sucking up, they might respond to piling on.
Hurry. * * * Bannon had delved deeply into the nature
He had no interest in personnel problems, since they put the emphasis on other people.
You could hardly find an entity more at odds with military discipline than a Trump organization.
Trump’s repeated brags about his relationship with Vladimir Putin and the nature of Trump’s relationship with the Kremlin.
Trump’s key supporters worked for him because nobody else would have them.
Trump, who referred to the Chinese leader as Mr. X-i; the president was told to think of him as a woman and call him she.)
Trump, said Bannon, noting the obvious, was the least disciplined man in politics.
Trump was impetuous and yet did not like to make decisions, at least not ones that seemed to corner him into having to analyze a problem.
This was the peculiar and haunting consensus—not that Trump was guilty of all that he was accused of, but that he was guilty of so much else.
There was now a fair amount of back-of-the-classroom giggling about who had called Trump what. For Steve Mnuchin and Reince Priebus, he was an idiot. For Gary Cohn, he was dumb as shit. For H. R. McMa...
The Trump White House stood less for government and the push-pull of competing interests and developing policies, and more, in a brand-savvy world, as a fixed and unpopular cultural symbol.
The Tea Party movement, with Trump as its remarkable face and voice, had come to power—something like total power. It owned the Republican Party. Publicly breaking Paul Ryan was the obvious and necess...
Some seducers are preternaturally sensitive to the signals of those they try to seduce; others indiscriminately attempt to seduce, and, by the law of averages, often succeed (this latter group of men...
So frustrating that they just want to get the deal done—get their fee and get out. If the client won’t acknowledge the rituals in a highly ritualized situation…if people don’t listen, if they can’t li...
Several decades as a grasping entrepreneur without a satisfying success story doesn’t smooth the hustle in hustler.
One particularly profitable transaction with the president was to bring him new, ever harsher criticism of his chief strategist, or reports of other people criticizing him. It was important to know no...