It was, said Walsh, like trying to figure out what a child wants.
It's worse than you can imagine. An idiot (Trump) surrounded by clowns. Trump won't read anything - not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with w...
It’s just a conspiracy theory. And, he added, the Trump team wasn’t capable of conspiring about anything.
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.
It’s worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns. Trump won’t read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leade...
Jared Kushner in quite a short period of time—rather less than a year—had crossed over from the standard Democratic view in which he was raised, to an acolyte of Trumpism, bewildering many friends and...
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,...
Much of the president’s daily conversation was a repetitive rundown of what various anchors and hosts had said about him.
Not only did the president-elect wear his deep and bitter grievances on his sleeve, but it was now clear that the fact of having been elected president would not change his unfiltered, apparently unco...
On June 9, 2016, Don Jr., Jared, and Paul Manafort met with a movieworthy cast of dubious characters in Trump Tower after having been promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Don Jr., enco...
Scaramucci also took on Steve Bannon: I’m not Steve Bannon. I’m not trying to suck my own cock. (In fact, Bannon learned about the piece when fact-checkers from the magazine called him for comment abo...
Sean Spicer, whose job was literally to explain what people did and why, often simply could not—because nobody really had a job, because nobody could do a job. Priebus, as chief of staff, had to organ...
Several decades as a grasping entrepreneur without a satisfying success story doesn’t smooth the hustle in hustler.
The issue was not that he might act precipitously and recklessly because he didn’t understand the consequences of doing so. The issue was that he could not comprehend the actual choices that needed to...
The new politics was not the art of the compromise but the art of conflict.
The organization therefore needed a set of internal rationalizations that would allow it to trust a man who, while he knew little, was entirely confident of his own gut instincts and reflexive opinion...
The real swamp is the swamp of insular, inbred, incestuous interests.
Then he imposed a set of new rules: nobody touch anything, especially not his toothbrush. (He had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald’s—nobody knew he was com...
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...
This was the job Bannon a week later.
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