Dina relied on Ivanka to offer regular assurances that not everyone named Trump was completely crazy.
And then he delivered a scornful critique of Robert Mueller: What an asshole. And there, perhaps, Trump had something of a point. If this was the result—a pass on conspiracy and equivocation on obstru...
Among Trump’s first moves as president was to have a series of inspirational photographs in the West Wing replaced with images of big crowd scenes at his inaugural ceremony.
Trying to win without consideration, plan, or clear goals had, in the course of the administration’s first nine months, resulted in almost nothing but losses.
Less a person than a collection of terrible traits.
Better understand the rules: they worked for Donald Trump, not for the president of the United States.
We serve at the president’s displeasure, another.
The president did not truly listen to anybody. The more you talked, the less he listened.
The kids—Jared and Ivanka—exhibited an increasingly panicked sense that the FBI and DOJ were moving beyond Russian election interference and into family finances. Ivanka is terrified, said a satisfied...
The inside joke became—echoing Karl Rove as Bush’s brain and later Steve Bannon as Trump’s brain—that now it was Sean Hannity who had become Trump’s resident genius. Trump had ended up with someone ev...
Shortly after eight o’clock that evening, when the unexpected trend—Trump might actually win—seemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he called him, looked as if he had seen...
On February 14, William P. Barr was sworn in as attorney general.
Is Donald Trump an intellectual? Trust me, I’m like a smart person.
I was in Russia years ago with the Ms. Universe contest—did very very well—I tell everyone be careful, because you don’t want to see yourself on television—cameras all over the place. And again, not j...
I now understand what it is like to be in the court of the Tudors, reflected Bannon.
His strategic belief was that there was no reason not to heap excessive puffery on a prospect. But if the prospect was ruled out as a buyer, there was no reason not to heap scorn and lawsuits on him o...
He is, and is pleased to let everybody know it, a winner-take-all businessman—the worst nightmare of sentimental, lefty intellectuals, which is exactly what so many of the Bancrofts have become.
He believed he could spook the other side.
Few innovations have been as unclear in what they would become and what they could offer and yet been greeted with as much certainty and enthusiasm as digital media.
And that evening, the president traveled to West Virginia to deliver a speech before the Boy Scouts of America. Once more, his speech was totally at odds with time, place, and good sense. It prompted...