Chris Dorf

“Bannon described Trump as a simple machine. The On switch was full of flattery, the Off switch full of calumny.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“He sent his new press secretary, Sean Spicer—whose personal mantra would shortly become “You can’t make this shit up”—to argue his case in a media moment that turned Spicer, quite a buttoned-down political professional, into a national joke, which he seemed destined to never recover from. To boot, the president blamed Spicer for not making the million phantom souls seem real.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“After all, Ailes was perhaps the person most responsible for unleashing the angry-man currents of Trump’s victory: he had invented the right-wing media that delighted in the Trump character.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“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.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House