If they don’t respond to sucking up, they might respond to piling on.
It was the Jarvanka idea to try to trade off amnesty for the border wall.
Just when you felt on top of the world in the Trump administration, you could probably count on getting cut down. That was the pattern and price of one-man leadership—insecure-man leadership.
Kibosh
Many around Trump were surprised to record an unexpected character note: he wasn’t paranoid. He was self-pitying and melodramatic, but not on guard. Negativity and betrayal always startled him.
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.
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...
President might have been involved usually became
The Trump bubble. Trump was incapable of admitting vulnerability—any at all.
The more doubts gathered around Flynn, the more certain the president became that Flynn was his all-important ally.
The president himself was unsure about where he himself stood; he kept asking people if Kelly liked him.
The three men working hardest to maneuver the president—Bannon, Kushner, and Priebus.
This was the fundamental hypothesis of the senior staff, shared by Walsh and everyone else: Trump must know what he was doing, his intuition must be profound.
Yet discover the charm and wisdom of Donald Trump. Where past presidents might have spent portions of their day talking about the needs, desires, and points of leverage among various members of Congre...
Almost everybody in the White House followed Trump’s thinking by tracking whom he had called the night before.)
The Kushner position was not helped by the fact that the president had been gleefully telling multiple people that Jared could solve the Middle East problem because the Kushners knew all the crooks in...
This required some tutoring for 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.)
60 Minutes (TV show) 666 Fifth Avenue
Acting, in his view, was the greater and more important legal skill.
Almost all the professionals who were now set to join him were coming face to face with the fact that it appeared he knew nothing.
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