Regime Change Quotes

“there was no better counter for a screwup than an outrage.”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“If there was a constituency that Trump would move heaven and earth for”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“Noem had come to exemplify something central to the Trump presidency: the idea that governing was, above all, a spectacle—a show of strength staged for an audience of one.”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“Kushner’s initial reaction was the same. He later told an associate that he thought to himself”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“At the height of his trade war in April”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“A few weeks later”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“The tariff rate for each country was calculated by taking the 2024 U.S. trade deficit with the specific country, dividing it by the total value of goods the U.S. imported from the country, and then halving the result.”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“The agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter into a residential building the Tren de Aragua members had supposedly taken”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“Wiles also had good emotional intelligence for reading and handling people. Her staff was treated with respect and in turn were intensely loyal; many of the key aides around Trump were seen as “Susie’s people.” When things went wrong, Wiles rarely screamed or shouted, as many others in the job had done. She was warm, charming, and soft-spoken.”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“Trump didn’t buy the pessimistic assessments.”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“John F. Kennedy had never named anything for himself. Nor had any other President in American history openly campaigned for a public structure to bear his name—though a few, like Washington and Hoover, had buildings or landmarks named for them by others while still in office.”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“Trump was also a decades-long student of power dynamics. He has a feral instinct for power and he is an intuitive reader of people. His son Don Jr. has told associates that his father has a sixth sense for locating a person’s weakest point, their hidden vulnerability, and pushing hard on it until he breaks them. And he creates enormous flexibility for himself, thinking nothing of reversing himself entirely and lying brazenly to get out of a tight spot. In this sense, his complete absence of shame—historically unusual among American Presidents—has been a political superpower.”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“Hegseth, a former Fox News host and combat veteran whom many Republican senators privately regarded as unqualified to run the Pentagon, had no experience managing a large organization, let alone the world’s most powerful military.”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“Laura Loomer, not long from her victory in thinning out the National Security Council, called the President’s decision “a stain,” and supported her point with a cartoon of the 747 modeled on the Trojan horse, only this time filled with armed jihadis.”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“Earlier in April, the Supreme Court had handed down a ruling that dashed the administration’s hopes for a free hand to expel illegal immigrants without a right to individual hearings.”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“I just talked to your best friend, Vladimir Putin, Trump began, when Zelensky came on the line. It was an especially cruel greeting, given that Putin had been bombing Ukraine for nearly three years.”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“Trump granted clemency to more than 1,500 people charged in connection to the January 6 riot, including those who had attacked police officers.”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“Trump was the first modern President to govern as though the international system simply did not exist. His predecessors, even the most hawkish among them, had operated within a web of treaties, institutions and norms (NATO, the United Nations, the World Trade Organization that shaped and constrained how American power was exercised). Trump did not merely buck against these constraints as other presidents had, he ignored them entirely and in doing so demonstrated that they had no mechanism to stop him.”
― Maggie Haberman;Jonathan Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“bombing began”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“and”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“Scott Bessent compared Kirk’s murder to the national tragedy of 9/11”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“He would make America great again”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“Leavitt’s umbrage was forceful”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“As with the Israel issue, nobody in Trump’s orbit had a better feel for the younger part of the MAGA base than Kirk, who saw that the Epstein “cover-up,” as it was now viewed, was cutting through to an alarming extent.”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“Piles of accusations were impossible to disprove”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“he”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“A stable group of trusted staff was vital.”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“They opted for announcing Guantánamo; there was no better counter for a screwup than an outrage.”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“He had learned from term one that finding the right lawyers was the key to everything. He talked in private about hiring and promoting attorneys with “the stiffest spines.”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

“He had maintained the trust not only of the President but of many, though not all, of the various iterations of senior staff, members of the Trump family, and colleagues across the first administration. He often served as a confidant to people who were at war with each other. It required a level of dexterity beyond just behaving as a pure bulldozer.”
― Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump