But in times of great change, the beginner’s mind has the advantage.
“It’s worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns. Trump won’t read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored. And his staff is no better. Kushner is an entitled baby who knows nothing. Bannon is an arrogant prick who thinks he’s smarter than he is. Trump is less a person than a collection of terrible traits. No one will survive the first year but his family.”
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
“Bannon had announced himself as Trump’s brain, a boast that vastly irritated the president.”
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
“Trump had little or no interest in the central Republican goal of repealing Obamacare. An overweight seventy-year-old man with various physical phobias (for instance, he lied about his height to keep from having a body mass index that would label him as obese), he personally found health care and medical treatments of all kinds a distasteful subject. The details of the contested legislation were, to him, particularly boring; his attention would begin wandering from the first words of a policy discussion.”
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
“With his misspellings and his use of 1970s lingo—“wire tapping” called up an image of FBI agents crouched in a van on Fifth Avenue—it seemed kooky and farcical. Of the many tweets that Trump had seemed to hoist himself by, from the point of view of the media, intelligence community, and extremely satisfied Democrats, the wiretap tweets had pulled him highest and most left him dangling in ignorance and embarrassment”
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
“He’s not only crazy,” declared Tom Barrack to a friend, “he’s stupid.”
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
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