Landslide Quotes

“Trump’s entire world was construed from what he saw on television.”
― Michael Wolff, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

“what if it was precisely the absence of intent and, instead, the swings of irrationality and mania that managed, even as his government collapsed, to hold so many people in thrall?”
― Michael Wolff, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

“people might conclude that this was just more proof that you obviously couldn’t hold Trump responsible for executing on anything, much less an attack on the U.S. Capitol.)”
― Michael Wolff, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

“Who, among the right-minded and reasonably competent, would willingly work with Rudy?”
― Michael Wolff, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

“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;”
― Michael Wolff, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

“You’ll be fine. It’s only a little jail time. I do this all the time.”
― Michael Wolff, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

“In politics, the smart move is not to say no and to know how to finesse yes.”
― Michael Wolff, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

“everybody understanding that nine-tenths of what came out of his mouth was blah-blah”
― Michael Wolff, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

“the president always needed someone else to blame; that nothing bad happened to him that was not directly caused by the failure or active malice of someone else.”
― Michael Wolff, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

“every single lawyer who had worked on Trump’s first impeachment was conveniently unavailable.”
― Michael Wolff, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

“charisma in the Christian sense.”
― Michael Wolff, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

“And anyway, it was Friday. Thank God it was Friday, after the worst week in the history of the Trump presidency—losing the Senate, failing in an Electoral College showdown, the Capitol attack, impeachment on the agenda, again. In fact, it was the worst week in the history of any presidency.”
― Michael Wolff, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

“Without personal reflection, without (most believed) the capacity for it on nearly any level, he never much reacted in different or revealing ways. Mercurial, yes, but, oddly, extremely reliable. He swam in one direction. He yelled. He joked. He monologue-ized. He talked. Others listened. Indeed, he held court as the sun god, seeing the center of the world as his immediate circle. That was the nature of the Trump Oval Office: a man amid his admirers, flunkies, courtiers, relatives, with no restraints on his ability to bore, taunt, digress, or monopolize others’ time.”
― Michael Wolff, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

“Clark, forty-five, was a Wesleyan graduate (possibly the only graduate from the famously liberal school to work for Trump or even vote for him) and a close associate of Bill Stepien’s. He had become a kind of self-appointed sheriff, trying to keep the grifters, kooks, and obvious self-dealers out of Trumptown—and away from the campaign’s money.”
― Michael Wolff, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

“Typos drove him wild. He might lash out for days when he found one, or when someone else, more likely, pointed out a mess-up in a letter or document prepared under his name—the infuriated concern of someone thinking somebody else’s laziness might reveal his own weaknesses. He was spitting furious now because the legal brief was filled with botches, the second time in a week this had happened—the Unites States! In the first line! A violent overthrown!”
― Michael Wolff, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency