To have worked anywhere near him is to be confronted with the most extreme and disorienting behavior possible. That is hardly an overstatement. Not only is Trump not like other presidents, he is not l...
To everyone working in media in New York, Donald Trump represented the ultimate shame of working in media in New York: you might have to write about Donald Trump. Not writing about him, or certainly n...
To Trump, he was just up against Sally Yates, who was, he steamed, such a cunt.
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. It was all too possible that the hardly plausible would le...
They weren’t operatives, they were believers, which is what Trump wanted them to be.
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...
There was no competition in Trump Tower for being the brains of the operation. Of the dominant figures in the transition, neither Kushner, Priebus, nor Conway, and certainly not the president-elect, h...
The president, while often a fabulist in his depiction of the world, was quite a literalist when it came to how he saw himself.
The face-off quickly escalated into an existential confrontation between the two sides of the White House—two sides on a total war footing. You don’t know what you’re doing, shouted a livid Bannon at...
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 DOJ, the president’s source told him, was filled with women who hated him.
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.
It was yet one more example, among his many now, of the comic-absurd, movielike politician who just says whatever is on his mind. Unmediated. Crazylike.
In fact, up close, Trump was not the bombastic and pugilistic man who had stirred rabid crowds on the campaign trail. He was neither angry nor combative. He may have been the most threatening and frig...
In Trump’s 2011 CPAC address he specifically calls for a relaxation of immigration restrictions for Europeans . . . that we should re-create an America that was far more stable and more beautiful. . ....
His son-in-law and daughter hoped—they were even confident—that they could speak to DJT’s better self, or at least balance Republican needs with progressive rationality, compassion, and good works. Fu...
His callers, largely because they found his conversation peculiar, alarming, or completely contrary to reason and common sense, often overrode what they might otherwise have assumed to be the confiden...
He clearly did not understand that what conservative media elevated, liberal media would necessarily take down.
For anything that smacked of a classroom or of being lectured to—professor was one of his bad words, and he was proud of never going to class, never buying a textbook, never taking a note—he got up an...