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Michael Wolff Quotes

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“I will tell you the one description that everyone gave, everyone has in common: They all say he is like a child. And what they mean by that is, he has a need for immediate gratification. It is all about him.”
— Michael Wolff, Michael Wolff says Donald Trump is least credible person 'who has ever walked on earth'
Tagged: Donald Trump, Childish, Narcissism, Instant Gratification
“I hear that the president is very angry, or, let me be precise: I hear that he is truly bouncing off the walls.”
— Michael Wolff, Michael Wolff Reflects on a Wild Week and Trump's Anger: "I Have No Side Here"(Q&A)
Tagged: Anger, Donald Trump
“The first woman president, Ivanka entertained, would not be Hillary Clinton, it would be Ivanka Trump.”
— Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Tagged: Ivanka Trump As The First Female President
“I think he has many acts left in him. I would put my money on Steve Bannon right now instead of Donald Trump.”
— Michael Wolff, 'People Regret What They Said To Me,' Michael Wolff Tells NPR About Trump Book
Tagged: steve bannon, Donald Trump, Predictions
“The solipsism of the tech community sees Netflix as a satisfying disruption of the TV business. But that’s a striking inversion of what’s actually happening: TV is disrupting the Internet.”
— Michael Wolff, Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media In the Digital Age
Tagged: Netflix, Technology, Old Media, New Media
“And at the end, they had to look at Donald Trump and say, 'No, this is a man who can't function in his job as president.' He may have been elected president, but that does not turn him into president.”
— Michael Wolff, Michael Wolff: I witnessed White House staffers questioning Trump's mental health
Tagged: Donald Trump, Trump Administration, incompetence
“Donald Trump and his tiny band of campaign warriors were ready to lose with fire and fury. They were not ready to win.”
— Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Tagged: Trump, Election 2016, Quote of the Moment
“George W. Bush, on the dais, supplied what seemed likely to become the historic footnote to the Trump address: That’s some weird shit.”
— Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Tagged: Trump, Election 2016, George W. Bush On Trump
“It's a little surreal. It's a weird combination of totally normal—I just sit at the desk behind the computer like always—and all you do is hear your own name in the background.”
— Michael Wolff, Michael Wolff Reflects on a Wild Week and Trump's Anger: "I Have No Side Here"(Q&A)
Tagged: Fame, Paparazzi
“Not only would Trump not be president, almost everyone in the campaign agreed, he should probably not be. Conveniently, the former conviction meant nobody had to deal with the latter issue.”
— Michael Wolff, Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Win – and Neither Did His Campaign
Tagged: Donald Trump, Trump Administration
“Trump Tower, next door to Tiffany and now headquarters of a populist revolution, suddenly seemed like an alien spaceship— the Death Star— on Fifth Avenue.”
— Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Tagged: Trump Tower
“My credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than, perhaps, anyone who has ever walked on earth at this point.”
— Michael Wolff, Michael Wolff says Donald Trump is least credible person 'who has ever walked on earth'
Tagged: Donald Trump, Credibility
“100 percent of the people around [Donald Trump]…senior advisers, family members, every single one of them, questions his intelligence and fitness for office.”
— Michael Wolff, Michael Wolff says Donald Trump is least credible person 'who has ever walked on earth'
Tagged: Donald Trump, Intelligence, Fitness, Family
“Steve Bannon is responsible for Donald Trump's election. When Steve joined the campaign in August, they were finished—even Trump acknowledged they were finished.”
— Michael Wolff, 'People Regret What They Said To Me,' Michael Wolff Tells NPR About Trump Book
Tagged: steve bannon, Donald Trump, Trump Campaign
“Trump liked to portray his business as an empire, it was actually a discrete holding company and boutique enterprise, catering more to his peculiarities as proprietor and brand representative than to any bottom line or other performance measures.”
— Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Tagged: Trumpism, Against Trump's Business Skills
“I will quote Steve Bannon—he’s lost it.”
— Michael Wolff, Michael Wolff says Donald Trump is least credible person 'who has ever walked on earth'
Tagged: Donald Trump, steve bannon, Senility
“The truth is, over this period that I witnessed, this seven or eight months, they all came to the conclusion gradually at first, then faster and faster, that something was unbelievably amiss here. That this was more peculiar than they ever imagined it could be.”
— Michael Wolff, Michael Wolff: I witnessed White House staffers questioning Trump's mental health
Tagged: Donald Trump, Trump Administration, Chaos
“Each are trying to use their particular leverage and each has leverage with the president. Also, in order to increase their leverage with the president, they were trying to kill each other. In some nearly literal sense, kill each other. Certainly, Jared Kushner believed that Steve Bannon was leaking—that the information about Kushner's relationship and conversations with Russians, which put him in legal peril, was coming from Bannon. Reince Priebus almost every day of this administration was a guy who was going to be fired the next day.”
— Michael Wolff, 'People Regret What They Said To Me,' Michael Wolff Tells NPR About Trump Book
Tagged: Steven Bannon, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump, Competition, leverage, Reince Priebus
“You have things that are sprouts that are beginning to yield and employ people and beginning to do interesting things and become influential. But compared to what the business once was, it's nothing. We've now built a business on the basis of being almost completely staffed by young people who are paid nothing. That is the business now. So, relatively speaking, it's pretty damn bleak. The news business has lost, like, 50 percent in four or five years.”
— Michael Wolff, Digiday.com
Tagged: Digital media, Publishing
“The media's holy grail is, as it's been for much of the campaign, about what will stick. Of the myriad likely damaging possibilities, which one will be so prima facie damaging (pay no attention to the many instances that many people already thought were, or would be) or so shocking and insulting to the body politic that it will be the end, or at least the beginning of the end, of Trump? Nothing counts but delivering a mortal wound, so everything is delivered as though it is a mortal wound.”
— Michael Wolff, Analysis | Trump book author Michael Wolff made a damaging admission on the ‘Today’ show
Tagged: Holy Grail, Media, Donald Trump
“From the moment of victory, the Trump administration became a looking-glass presidency: Every inverse assumption about how to assemble and run a White House was enacted and compounded, many times over. The decisions that Trump and his top advisers made in those first few months — from the slapdash transition to the disarray in the West Wing — set the stage for the chaos and dysfunction that have persisted throughout his first year in office. This was a real-life version of Mel Brooks’s The Producers, where the mistaken outcome trusted by everyone in Trump’s inner circle — that they would lose the election — wound up exposing them for who they really were.”
— Michael Wolff, Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Win – and Neither Did His Campaign
Tagged: Mel Brooks, The Producers, victory, Donald Trump, Trump Administration
“In a world where everything is declining, you have instances of digital outlets growing. But relatively speaking, they in no way begin to replace what was there before. Even the Huffington Post. I think maybe they have revenue of $60 million. That's as opposed to what's gone away: the Washington Post has gone from billions to I don't know what. And it's been replaced by Politico, which is maybe a $20 million business.”
— Michael Wolff, Digiday.com
Tagged: Digital media
“Most presidential candidates spend their entire careers, if not their lives from adolescence, preparing for the role. They rise up the ladder of elected offices, perfect a public face, and prepare themselves to win and to govern. The Trump calculation, quite a conscious one, was different. The candidate and his top lieutenants believed they could get all the benefits of almost becoming president without having to change their behavior or their worldview one whit.”
— Michael Wolff, Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Win – and Neither Did His Campaign
Tagged: Donald Trump, Career, Trump Administration, Adolescence
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