Real estate was the world’s favorite money-laundering currency,
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.)
Melania sometimes spoke Slovenian with Barron, particularly when her parents were around—and they were frequently around—infuriating Trump and causing him to bolt from any room they were in.
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...
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...
Is Donald Trump an intellectual? Trust me, I’m like a smart person.
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.
His departure would return the Trump organization to pure family control—the family and its functionaries, without an internal rival for brand meaning and leadership. From the family’s point of view,...
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.
All news was to some extent fake—he understood that very well, because he himself had faked it so many times in his career. This was why he had so naturally cottoned to the fake news label. I’ve made...
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the Egyptian strongman, ably stroked the president and said, You are a unique personality that is capable of doing the impossible. (To Sisi, Trump replied, Love your shoes. Boy,...
Were ready to lose with fire and fury. They were not ready to win.
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There was a plot against him.
Then there was Bannon, conducting something of an alternate-universe operation,
The three senior guys in the campaign, an incredulous Bannon went on, thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the twenty-fifth floor—w...
The first woman president, Ivanka entertained, would not be Hillary Clinton, it would be Ivanka Trump.
The dream, long differed, of the Trump pivot, might actually happen without
The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers. In
The Russia story was—just two weeks into the new presidency—a dividing line with each side viewing the other as pushing fake news.