Kushner became the representative in the White House of the liberal status quo. He was something like what used to be called a Rockefeller Republican and now might more properly be a Goldman Sachs Dem...
For Trump, as for many showmen or press release entrepreneurs, the enemy of everything is complexity and red tape, and the solution for everything is cutting corners. Bypass or ignore the difficulties...
Real estate was the world’s favorite money-laundering currency,
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.
They take everything I’ve ever said and exaggerate it, said the president in his first week in the White House during a late-night call. It’s all exaggerated. My exaggerations are exaggerated.
Trump needed to surround himself with the dysfunctional and the inept, because he was dysfunctional and inept.
From the Bannon side, Pence garnered only contempt. Pence is like the husband in Ozzie and Harriet, a nonevent, said one Bannonite. Although many saw him as a vice president who might well assume the...
He just keeps going, Ailes had marveled to a friend after the first debate with Hillary Clinton. You hit Donald along the head, and he keeps going. He doesn’t even know he’s been hit.
Pecker was often mocked by Trump as Little Pecker, and his mustache was the target of derisive and obscene remarks. (Curiously, Pecker bore a resemblance to Trump’s father, who also wore a mustache.)
The leaking culture had become so open and overt—most of the time everybody could identify everybody else’s leaks—that it was now formally staffed.
In 1996, his second wife, Marla Maples, was caught one night with a Trump bodyguard on the beach near Mar-a-Lago under the lifeguard stand. This, Bannon was aware, had been a primal blow for Trump.
On February 14, William P. Barr was sworn in as attorney general.
Masher.
It was the chaos of just doing things that actually got things done. Except, even if you assumed that not knowing how to do things didn’t much matter if you just did them, it was still not clear who w...
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...
The Khashoggi debacle provided yet another example of the bizarre and inexplicable relationships that Trump and his family had formed with bad guys around the world,
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.
Pushing a proffered glass of wine away—I don’t drink—
You could tell him whatever you wanted, but he knew what he knew, and if what you said contradicted what he knew, he simply didn’t believe you.
On the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Kellyanne Conway—Donald Trump’s campaign manager and a central, indeed starring, personality of Trumpworld—settled into her glass office at Trump Tower. Right up...
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