Another Wolff Excerpt: How Donald Trump's White House team handles his giant ego

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This one covers KellyAnne Conway and Hope Hicks and how they dealt with Trump and the media. Also covers Roger Ailes mascinations to start a new network w Hannity, Bill O,Reilly, and Bannon.

How Donald Trump's White House team handles his giant ego
by Michael Wolff
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/michael-wolff-book-trump

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Loyalty was Trump’s most valued attribute and in Conway’s view her kamikaze-like media defence of the president had earned her a position of utmost primacy in the White House. But in her public persona, she had pushed the boundaries of loyalty too far; she was so hyperbolic that even Trump loyalists found her behaviour extreme and were repelled. None were more put off than Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, who, appalled at the ­shamelessness of her television appearances, extended this into a larger critique of Conway’s vulgarity. When referring to her, they were ­particularly partial to using the shorthand “nails”, a ­reference to her Cruella de Vil-length manicure treatments.

By mid-February, she was already the subject of leaks – many coming from Kushner and Ivanka – about how she had been sidelined. She vociferously defended herself, ­producing a list of television ­appearances still on her schedule, albeit lesser ones. But she also had a teary scene with Trump in the Oval Office, offering to resign if the president had lost faith in her. Almost ­invariably, when confronted with self-abnegation, Trump offered copious reassurances. “You will always have a place in my administration,” he told her. “You will be here for eight years.”

But she had indeed been sidelined, reduced to second-rate media, to being a designated emissary to right-wing groups and left out of any meaningful decision-making. This she blamed on the media, a scourge that further united her in self-pity with Trump. In fact, her relationship with the president deepened as they bonded over their media wounds

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[Irish_Dem]

1. I am almost afraid to read how they "handle" him.

I have the flu with a queasy tummy as it is.

[Va Lefty]

2. "You will be here eight years"

sounds like a threat to me.