Lachlan Markay > Quotes

“Then, suddenly, Trump had had enough. He got up, walked away, and started screaming for his other aides to get Bossie out of his sight, if not off the plane entirely. “GET HIM THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!!! GET HIM THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME,” the future president demanded, furiously gesticulating toward Bossie and the door behind him—all because Bossie had asked him to tweet less violently. It was an episode that epitomized the decaying rapport between the candidate and his underling.”
― Lachlan Markay, Sinking in the Swamp: How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington

“Trump sat and took in the data Mulvaney presented to him. The chart’s “hockey stick” curve appeared to show that the national debt would reach a critical mass in the late 2020s. Mulvaney confirmed that that was indeed the case, stressing that in actuarial terms that was a very tight timeline. “Yeah,” Trump responded. “But I won’t be here.”
― Lachlan Markay, Sinking in the Swamp: How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington

“when we reached out to her to inform her that we were writing this book, and that she would be mentioned in it, Delgado responded with a twenty-three-hundred-word emailed tirade.”
― Lachlan Markay, Sinking in the Swamp: How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington

“During past administration transitions, some staffers in the outgoing White House stuck around to show their successors the ropes. No one from the Obama White House extended that courtesy.”
― Lachlan Markay, Sinking in the Swamp: How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington

“The funniest example would have to be the curious case of the informal, small collective of liberal, center-left Hollywood insiders and operators who deployed every dirty trick they could muster to ensure that Trump’s inaugural festivities were as punishingly lame as humanly possible. We are, for now, withholding the names of the members of this shadowy cabal, on the condition of our reporting certain details”
― Lachlan Markay, Sinking in the Swamp: How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington