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My wife gets pampered pretty well. She's had me trained since she was pregnant, when I started making her oatmeal with fresh berries every morning.

Hindu love? Is it by Rudyard Kipling?

Time spent with Trump on the campaign plane was often an epic dissing experience: everybody around him was an idiot.

Ailes had a suggestion: "Speaker Boehner." (John Boehner had been the Speaker of the House until he was forced out in a Tea Party putsch in 2011.) "Who's that?" asked Trump.

fact-checkers from the magazine called him for comment about Scaramucci's accusation that he sucked his own cock.)

The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks's The Producers.

Bannon was making his first official pubic appearance of the Trump presidency,

It's just a conspiracy theory." And, he added, the Trump team wasn't capable of conspiring about anything.

Murdoch is a brilliant and manipulative bastard; Evans is a brilliant and easily manipulated man of taste and honor.

But if Halberstam defined the presidential mien, Trump defied it—and defiled it.

purpose of actually changing the country. Changing it quickly, radically, and truly.

The leitmotif for Trump about his own campaign was how crappy it was and how everybody involved in it was a loser.

If I told Trump that, he might have the job.

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.

Crazy was a potent enemy against the establishment, but how to predict what a crazy man will do?

Bannon's deconstruction of the administrative state meant to take with it media, academic, and not-for-profit institutions.

He had no interest in precision, or even any ability to be precise.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, an anti-immigration figure and Trump supporter, got a pardon. So did Scooter Libby, the Bush administration leaker whom President Bush, a frequent target of Trump derision, had failed to pardon, and so did Dinesh D'Souza, the right-wing author. Martha Stewart was a possibility. So was the corrupt former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, who was brazen and overweening

the political antichrist, a figure of dark but buffoonish scandal,

his view, that he should say nothing—it was not his fault or responsibility, and he certainly didn't want to give a speech that might imply it was;

There were too many members of the House. He couldn't remember their names. He launched into dramatic eye-rolling when told where they were from. "Flyovers," he said. "Men's shop salesmen.

Immigration was not just Trumpism's sine qua non, it was the fundamental intellectual pillar that any dope could understand.

Trump pardons were less judicial corrections or acts of forbearance and kindness than statements of defiance.

Donald Trump, whose cruelties, always great even when they were casual, were unbearable when he truly turned against you.