208 Quotes by Michael Wolff

Trump’s key supporters worked for him because nobody else would have them.

Bannon had announced himself as Trump’s brain, a boast that vastly irritated the president.

A close Trump friend who was also a good Bill Clinton friend found them eerily similar – except that Clinton had a respectable front and Trump did not. One manifestation of this outlaw personality, for both Trump and Clinton, was their brand of womanizing – and indeed, harassing. Even among world-class womanizers and harassers, they seemed exceptionally free of doubt or hesitation.

But Thiel, who gave a speech supporting Trump at the Republican Convention in Cleveland, reported back that, even having been forewarned, he absolutely was certain of Trump’s sincerity when he said they’d be friends for life – only never to basically hear from him again or have his calls returned.

Offering forceful and dire warnings, Bannon told the president: “This Russian story is a third-tier story, but you fire Comey and it’ll be the biggest story in the world.

Reince Priebus, getting ready to shift over from the RNC to the White House, noted, with alarm, how often Trump offered people jobs on the spot, many of whom he had never met before, for positions whose importance Trump did not particularly understand.

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.

The story of Trump was the story of how he tried to make himself a story.

He simply hoped that difficult decisions would make themselves.