The president was likely a fool and certainly a liar.
The president himself was unsure about where he himself stood; he kept asking people if Kelly liked him.
The more doubts gathered around Flynn, the more certain the president became that Flynn was his all-important ally.
The Trump bubble. Trump was incapable of admitting vulnerability—any at all.
Success of the speech confirmed the Jared and Ivanka strategy: look for common ground. It also confirmed Ivanka’s understanding of her father: he just wanted to be loved. And, likewise, it confirmed B...
Most of all don’t let him piss off the intel community, said one national Republican figure to Kushner. If you fuck with the intel community they will figure out a way to get back at you and you’ll ha...
Military figures like James Mattis, H. R. McMaster, and John Kelly: they found themselves working in an administration that was in every way inimical to basic command principles.
Kibosh
In the larger Trump view, it was during the cold war that time and circumstance gave the United States its greatest global advantage. That was when America was great.
He lied about his height to keep from having a body mass index that would label him as obese),
Fundamental Bannonism: stop thinking you can somehow get along with your enemies.
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...
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...
Calamity of their own making.
Based on conversations that took place over a period of eighteen months with the president,
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...
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...
Why did we do this on a Friday when it would hit the airports hardest and bring out the most protesters? almost the entire White House staff demanded to know. Errr … that’s why, said Bannon. So the sn...
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...
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...