The last time we heard from Michael Wolff—author of the stratospheric Trump-era bestseller Fire and Fury—appearances on his nationwide book tour were mysteriously vanishing. In alleging, with no evidence, that the president had had an affair in the White House, he had somehow united a country previously torn asunder.…
President Donald Trump and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon have had a rocky relationship since Bannon was forced out in August of last year. But according to CNN, Bannon is reportedly now back in Trump’s ear, as part of an “informal” group of former administration and campaign officials who are…
The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple noticed on Tuesday that Michael Wolff, whose White House tell-all Fire and Fury shot up to whatever spot on the bestseller list is higher than No. 1, is canceling loads of appearances for his nationwide book tour. Events in Los Angeles, San Jose, Denver, San Antonio, Kansas City, and…
Michael Wolff, ostensible journalist and confirmed scumbag, appeared on Australia’s Today Show on Sunday to discuss Fire and Fury, his best-selling (if somewhat dubious) book about Donald Trump. There, Wolff eagerly weighed in on all sorts of things...until it came time to defend his recent assertion that Trump is…
This morning, author Michael Wolff appeared on Morning Joe. He was there in yet another embarrassing attempt to play dumb about his extremely gross characterization of Nikki Haley’s response to his veiled accusation that she was having an affair with Donald Trump. Mika Brzezinski went after him about it, which is all…
Michael Wolff, the type of man who wears very colorful pocket squares as his “thing,” has been on a nonstop media tour since the release of his White House tell-all Fire and Fury. Wolff knows how to gin up attention, and on Jan. 19 he giddily shared a “tidbit” on Real Time with Bill Maher that didn’t make his book:…
It is Sunday, the Grammys have stretched into their third hour, Patti LuPone is singing a rendition of “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina,” and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is live-tweeting a seething commentary about Hillary Clinton’s Fire and Fury Grammys sketch. Time, as of 10:28 p.m., is a flat…
Journalists’ shock and awe at how Michael Wolff pulled off his No. 1 bestseller, Fire and Fury, has inexplicably continued despite news of President Trump’s “shithole” comments, porn star hush money, and a heavily scrutinized physical exam, with Bloomberg publishing a 1,400-word tick-tock on Wednesday, a full two…
Days into the news cycle of juicy tidbits from writer Michael Wolff’s new book about Donald Trump’s White House comes another frontrunner for most horrendous anecdote: our president trying to rationalize, in the wake of Charlottesville, why oh why someone would join the Ku Klux Klan.
Midway through the excerpt of Michael Wolff’s new book which was published in New York magazine yesterday is a detailed recreation of a chat which took place on January 3, 2017 between two of the then-most powerful men in conservative media: Steve Bannon and the late Roger Ailes. The pair were part of what Wolff says…
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A March Madness-style bracket to find the most loathed man in media might include Rupert Murdoch biographer, movie theater scofflaw, and resident killjoy Michael Wolff as its No. 1 overall seed. The ornery press critic is, as Fox News’ Howard Kurtz once said with understatement, “rarely impressed by anyone other than…
After excerpts from an upcoming book on the disarray in Donald Trump’s administration were published on Wednesday—containing morsels like Steve Bannon repeatedly insulting Trump’s intelligence and calling his oldest son’s infamous Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer “treasonous”—the White House responded with a…
