Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

by Michael Wolff

autodidacts

louche

indefatigability

couldn’t quite get his head around the improbable and bizarre fact that his friend Donald Trump was now president of the United States.

Ailes seems totally baffled by his friend's victory. Kind of like when your best flaky friend is voted Most Popular...

neocons

revanchism

auteur

telegenic

Really???!! Describing K.Conway aka the crypt keeper.

ignominy

Early in the campaign, in a Producers-worthy scene, Sam Nunberg was sent to explain the Constitution to the candidate: “I got as far as the Fourth Amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head.”

There was, in the space of little more than an hour, in Steve Bannon’s not unamused observation, a befuddled Trump morphing into a disbelieving Trump and then into a quite horrified Trump. But still to come was the final transformation: suddenly, Donald Trump became a man who believed that he deserved to be and was wholly capable of being the president of the United States.

sagacious.

ignominious

transmogrification

depredations

opprobrium;

calumny

bêtes noires

encomiums

interlocutors

cabal

myrmidons,

dialectical

peremptory.

hortatory,

tummler,

epochal

peripatetic

subsumed

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 the compromise but the art of conflict.

Well that's enlightening and scary.

solipsism

ennui.

arriviste

persiflage.

apogee