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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a4a7df3 | just worry about who's jerking whose chain. | Michael Wolff | ||
| e9fce9a | His sons, Don Jr. and Eric--jokingly behind their backs known to Trump insiders as Uday and Qusay, after the sons of Saddam Hussein-- | Michael Wolff | ||
| 5f21cd3 | His callers, largely because they found his conversation peculiar, alarming, or completely contrary to reason and common sense, often overrode what they might otherwise have assumed to be the confidential nature of the calls and shared the content with someone else. Hence news about the inner workings of the White House went into free circulation. Except it was not so much the inner workings of the White House--although it would often be re.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 2e9346b | If the new right had elected Trump, it was the older Fortune 100 executives who most pleased him | Michael Wolff | ||
| 33f52e9 | Donald Trump became a symbol of the media's own self-loathing: the interest in and promotion of Donald Trump was a morality tale about the media. | Michael Wolff | ||
| dce2f2e | Bannon's entire political career, such as it was, had been in political media. It was also in Internet media--that is, media ruled by immediate response. The Breitbart formula was to so appall the liberals that the base was doubly satisfied, generating clicks in a ricochet of disgust and delight. You defined yourself by your enemy's reaction. Conflict was the media bait--hence, now, the political chum. The new politics was not the art of th.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| d95bb54 | Speaker Boehner." (John Boehner had been the Speaker of the House until he was forced out in a Tea Party putsch in 2011.)" | Michael Wolff | ||
| 559d479 | When the president got on the phone after dinner, it was often a rambling affair. In paranoid or sadistic fashion, he'd speculate on the flaws and weaknesses of each member of his staff. Bannon was disloyal (not to mention he always looks like shit). Priebus was weak (not to mention he was short--a midget). Kushner was a suck-up. Spicer was stupid (and looks terrible too). Conway was a crybaby. Jared and Ivanka should never have come to Was.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| a50bae6 | 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 supported American manufacturing; immigration policies that protected American workers (and, hence, American culture, or at least America's identity from 1955 to 1965); and an international isolation that would conserve American resources and choke off.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| c512c91 | Well," said the president, "you won't like the answer, but the answer is me. Me. I talk to myself." | Michael Wolff | ||
| c0013c9 | you don't really have to know all that much yourself; you just do it differently than it was done before. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 9bb8d86 | One instance of his revisionism, and of the new stature he now seemed to assume as president, involved the lowest point of the campaign--the Billy Bush tape. His explanation, in an off-the-record conversation with a friendly cable anchor, was that it "really wasn't me." The anchor acknowledged how unfair it was to be characterized by a single event. "No," said Trump, "it wasn't me. I've been told by people who understand this stuff about ho.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| b20f176 | This was the job Bannon a week later. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 13b6462 | For whatever reason, almost everyone I contacted--senior members of the White House staff as well as dedicated observers of it--shared large amounts of time with me and went to great effort to help shed light on the unique nature of life inside the Trump White House. In the end, what I witnessed, and what this book is about, is a group of people who have struggled, each in their own way, to come to terms with the meaning of working for Dona.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 99f9bb1 | Pushing a proffered glass of wine away--"I don't drink"--" | Michael Wolff | ||
| ad38a20 | Bannon, Conway, and Hicks--along with an assortment of more or less peculiar ideologues that had attached themselves to Trump and, of course, his family, all people without clearly monetizable reputations before their association with Trump--were, for better or worse, hitched to him. | Michael Wolff | ||
| d95ce60 | But most of the leaks, certainly the juiciest ones, were coming from the higher-ups--not to mention from the person occupying the topmost echelon. | Michael Wolff | ||
| f92e7b7 | He's not only crazy," declared Tom Barrack to a friend, "he's stupid." | Michael Wolff | ||
| 72e2d35 | Here's the deal," a close Trump associate told Priebus. "In an hour meeting with him you're going to hear fifty-four minutes of stories and they're going to be the same stories over and over again. So you have to have one point to make and you have to pepper it in whenever you can." | Michael Wolff | ||
| 2ea5a60 | The DOJ," the president's source told him, "was filled with women who hated him." | Michael Wolff | ||
| a3f6aa1 | Kushner saw the chance to convert the issue of the wall into a bilateral agreement addressing immigration-- | Michael Wolff | ||
| d89b2bd | Sean Spicer, whose job was literally to explain what people did and why, often simply could not--because nobody really had a job, because nobody could do a job. | Michael Wolff | ||
| f914148 | In Trump's 2011 CPAC address he specifically calls for a relaxation of immigration restrictions for Europeans . . . that we should re-create an America that was far more stable and more beautiful. . . . No other conservative politician would say those things . . . but on the other hand pretty much everyone thought it . . . so it's powerful to say it. . . . Clearly [there's] a normalization process going on. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 46b6c40 | National Policy Institute, which is sometimes described as a "white supremacist think tank," | Michael Wolff | ||
| 7207bbf | 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 were, the more difficult, sociopathic, and power-mad they might be--Bob and Rebekah Mercer were quite onto themselves. If Trump's ascent | Michael Wolff | ||
| efe2faa | and the almost samizdat sharing, or gobsmacked retelling, of otherwise private and deep-background conversations | Michael Wolff | ||
| c834781 | 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 or her. | Michael Wolff | ||
| c89ecdb | Donald Trump believed he had vastly more power, authority, and control than in fact he had, and he believed his talent for manipulating people and bending and dominating them was vastly greater than it was. Pushing this line of reasoning just a little further: senior staff believed the president had a problem with reality, and reality was now overwhelming him. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 312c89a | elevated, liberal media would necessarily take down. Trump, goaded by Bannon, would continue to do the things that would delight conservative media and incur the wrath of liberal media. That was the program. The more your supporters loved you, the more your antagonists hated you. That's how it was supposed to work. And that's how it was working. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 2f1be8c | Bannon was curiously able to embrace Trump while at the same time suggesting he did not take him entirely seriously. He had first met Trump, the on-again off-again presidential candidate, in 2010; at a meeting in Trump Tower, Bannon had proposed to Trump that he spend half a million dollars backing Tea Party-style candidates as a way to further his presidential ambitions. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 4102a54 | The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your e-book. Please use the search function on your e-reading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 47248b8 | The dream, long differed, of the Trump pivot, might actually happen without | Michael Wolff | ||
| 18624d6 | Bannon had promised to come to this small dinner arranged by mutual friends in a Greenwich Village town house to see Roger Ailes, | Michael Wolff | ||
| ca9b813 | masher. | Michael Wolff | ||
| cb4cf07 | Much of the president's daily conversation was a repetitive rundown of what various anchors and hosts had said about him. | Michael Wolff | ||
| b321fb8 | If Ryan could be counted on to handle Congress, thought the president, well, phew, that takes care of that. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 3e0cd8d | One of Jared Kushner's many new patrons was Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, whom Kushner had gotten to know when, on the banks of the River Jordan in 2010, they both attended the baptism of Grace and Chloe Murdoch, the young daughters of Rupert Murdoch and his then wife, Wendi. | Michael Wolff | ||
| a209188 | But now there seemed to be a new understanding: Donald Trump believed he had vastly more power, authority, and control than in fact he had, and he believed his talent for manipulating people and bending and dominating them was vastly greater than it was. Pushing this line of reasoning just a little further: senior staff believed the president had a problem with reality, and reality was now overwhelming him. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 1e3f22d | But now, the new president-elect--after the most astonishing upset in American history--was on tenterhooks waiting for Murdoch. | Michael Wolff | ||
| b3b9fde | fundamental Bannonism: stop thinking you can somehow get along with your enemies. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 2598d8c | he acceded to anyone who seemed to know more about any issue he didn't care about, | Michael Wolff | ||
| 7777a86 | On March 27, the Office of American Innovation was created and Kushner was put in charge. Its stated mission was to reduce federal bureaucracy--that is, to reduce it by creating more of it, a committee to end committees. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 4c99a3f | Theory 4: But then there was the those-that-know-him-best theory, some version of which most Trumpers would come to embrace. He was just star-fucking. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 7c8724f | Trump is less a person than a collection of terrible traits. | Michael Wolff |