He had somehow won the race for president, but his brain seemed incapable of performing what would be essential tasks in his new job. He had no ability to plan and organize and pay attention and switc...
Donald Trump became a symbol of the media’s own self-loathing: the interest in and promotion of Donald Trump was a morality tale about the media.
Day one we’re moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Netanyahu’s all in.
Bypassing lawyers, regulators, and the agencies and personnel responsible for enforcing it, President Trump—with Bannon’s low, intense voice behind him, offering a rush of complex information—signed w...
But not only didn’t he read, he didn’t listen. He preferred to be the person talking.
But Trump was a simple machine. Whitestone understood his singular interests—sports and girls—and learned they could be used as reliable distractions.
But Murdoch is, more accurately, not a modern journalist but the last representative from an era when a newspaper was its own advertisement, when it had to sell itself.
Acting, in his view, was the greater and more important legal skill.
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.)
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.
The three men working hardest to maneuver the president—Bannon, Kushner, and Priebus.
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.
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...
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.
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.
It was the Jarvanka idea to try to trade off amnesty for the border wall.
He lied about his height to keep from having a body mass index that would label him as obese),
Based on conversations that took place over a period of eighteen months with the president,