If I told Trump that, he might have the job.
He answered emails in one word—partly a paranoia about email, but even more a controlling crypticness.
Even though Trump liked to portray his business as an empire, it was actually a discrete holding company and boutique enterprise,
After the bill had been pulled that Friday, Katie Walsh, feeling both angry and disgusted, told Kushner she wanted out. Outlining what she saw as the grim debacle of the Trump White House, she spoke w...
Transmogrification
Persiflage.
Estimated Hannity’s net worth at $300 million to $400 million. From his earliest days as a big earner at the network, Hannity had invested in rental properties across the country. He may own every shi...
We serve at the president’s displeasure,
Trump’s wounded feelings—his sense of being shunned and unloved on the very day he became president—helped send that message. When he came off the podium after delivering his address, he kept repeatin...
Shortly after Lewandowski, with whom Hicks had an on-and-off romantic relationship, was fired in June 2016 for clashing with Trump family members, Hicks sat in Trump Tower with Trump and his sons, wor...
Kushner saw the chance to convert the issue of the wall into a bilateral agreement addressing immigration—
It didn't exactly surprise Bannon when Trump flipped; Bannon understood how easy it was to bullshit a bullshitter.
In an age when all successful political candidates are surrounded by, if not at the beck and call of, difficult, even sociopathic, rich people pushing the bounds of their own power—and the richer they...
He’s a guy who really hated school, said Bannon. And he’s not going to start liking it now.
He was a rebel, a disruptor, and, living outside the rules, contemptuous of them. A close Trump friend who was also a good Bill Clinton friend found them eerily similar—except that Clinton had a respe...
He had no ability to plan and organize and pay attention and switch focus; he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.
He can’t walk down steps … can’t walk down hills. [He’s got] mental blocks … [He] can’t handle numbers … they have no meaning to him.
Fooling some of the people all of the time defined Trump’s hard-core base.
Expertise was the last refuge of liberals, ever defeated by the big picture.
Early on, before getting down to attacking each other, Bannon and Kushner were united in their separate offensives against Priebus. Kushner’s preferred outlet was Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s...