As it happened, Conway meant to say alternative information, which at least would imply there might be additional data.
Bob and Rebekah Mercer, who had set themselves up as almost professional fools.
But Trump was a simple machine. Whitestone understood his singular interests—sports and girls—and learned they could be used as reliable distractions.
But now there seemed to be a new understanding: Donald Trump believed he had vastly more power, authority, and control than in fact he had, and he believed his talent for manipulating people and bendi...
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...
Clinton.
Confused to find that the power of the presidency had limitations, he came to see the limitations as his own
Do nothing had long been viewed as an unacceptable position of helplessness by American foreign policy experts. The instinct to do something was driven by the desire to prove you were not limited to n...
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.
Donald Trump, whose cruelties, always great even when they were casual, were unbearable when he truly turned against you.
Everyone, in his or her own way, struggled to express the baldly obrious fact that the president did not know enough, did not know what he didn't know, did not particularly care, and, to boot, was con...
He reprimanded the housekeeping staff for picking up his shirt from the floor: If my shirt is on the floor, it’s because I want it on the floor. Then he imposed a set of new rules: nobody touch anythi...
He was, after all, Donald Trump, however much you shined him up.
His advisers didn’t know whether he was an isolationist or a militarist, or whether he could distinguish between the two.
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...
His sons, Don Jr. and Eric—behind their backs known to Trump insiders as Uday and Qusay, after the sons of Saddam Hussein—wondered if there couldn’t somehow be two parallel White House structures, one...
I am in a constant state of shock and horror.
In business meetings, observers would be nonplussed that Charlie and Jared Kushner invariably greeted each other with a kiss and that the adult Jared called his father Daddy.
In politics somebody has to lose, but invariably everybody thinks they can win. And youprobably can’t win unless you believe that you will win—except in the Trump campaign.
In this regard, Bannon was not so much an entrepreneur of vision or even business discipline, he was more simply following the money - or trying to separate a fool from his money. He could not have do...
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