And the almost samizdat sharing, or gobsmacked retelling, of otherwise private and deep-background conversations
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.
In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had been robbed from him.
Here was a perfect example of an essential Trump paradigm: he acceded to anyone who seemed to know more about any issue he didn’t care about, or simply one whose details he couldn’t bring himself to f...
He wasn’t a tough guy. He was a big warm-hearted monkey, said Bannon, with rather faint praise.
He defended himself by ridiculing others.
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...
Clinton.
And it was not only calls from friends worried about him, but staffers calling people to call him and say Simmer down. Who do you have in there? said Joe Scarborough in a frantic call. Who’s the perso...
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,
Myrmidons,
Hurry. * * * Bannon had delved deeply into the nature
Evoked
Also be the easiest one to achieve, since virtually every Republican was already publicly committed to voting for repeal. But Bannon,
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.
The theory, suddenly presented as just this side of a likelihood, was that the Russians had suborned Donald Trump during a trip to Moscow with a crude blackmail scheme involving prostitutes and videot...
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.
The country built on the virtue and the character and the strength of the American workingman circa 1955–65 was the ideal he meant to defend and restore: trade agreements, or trade wars, that supporte...
Still, Sean Hannity had 5.8 million viewers on the night of the Blasey Ford–Kavanaugh hearing. That’s a lot of fucking hobbits, said Bannon.