Michael Wolff Quotes

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.

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 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...

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.

Trump was not a politician who could parse factions of support and opprobrium; he was a salesman who needed to make a sale. I won. I am the winner. I am not the loser, he repeated, incredulously, like...

Trump would shortly become a Gorsuch fan. But before settling on Gorsuch, he wondered why the job wasn’t going to a friend and loyalist. In the Trump view, it was rather a waste to give the job to som...

Trump, said Bannon, noting the obvious, was the least disciplined man in politics.

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’s key supporters worked for him because nobody else would have them.

Trump’s repeated brags about his relationship with Vladimir Putin and the nature of Trump’s relationship with the Kremlin.

Upon publication of Woodward’s new book, it was immediately evident that one of his key sources was H. R. McMaster, the three-star general who had joined the Trump administration in February 2017 as n...

What is looking like unhinged chaos is actually him in a place of comfort, tweeted Maggie Haberman, one of the Times reporters on the Trump beat. Haberman, who likes to assert a stubborn ownership of...

What’s more, Trump was receiving the censure of his friends, too. And it was not only calls from friends worried about him, but staffers calling people to call him and say Simmer down. Who do you have...

While he wanted a job with the Trump administration, the Mooch specifically wanted one of the jobs that would give him a tax break on the sale of his business. A federal program provides for deferred...

While nobody would ever say Trump was sensitive when it came to women, he had many views about how to get along with them, including a theory he discussed with friends about how the more years between...

With his misspellings and his use of 1970s lingo—wire tapping called up an image of FBI agents crouched in a van on Fifth Avenue—it seemed kooky and farcical. Of the many tweets that Trump had seemed...

You could hardly find an entity more at odds with military discipline than a Trump organization.

Alarm signals first went off among his new campaign staff: he seemed to lack the ability to take in third-party information. Or maybe he lacked the interest; whichever, he seemed almost phobic about h...

Chronic naysayer, he viewed each member of his inner circle as a problem child whose fate he held in his hand. We are sinners and he is God was one view; We serve at the president’s displeasure, anoth...

Few in the thin ranks of Trump’s inner circle, with their overnight responsibility for assembling a government, had almost any relevant experience. Nobody had a political background. Nobody had a poli...