Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host, was once considered for the White House press secretary job. Wolff in addition calls Hicks, who is from Connecticut, 'a kind of Stepford factotum, as absolutely dedicated to and tolerant of Mr Trump as anyone who had ever worked for him.' Before joining the Trump campaign, Hicks was a model.ħ. (The rumor has circulated around Washington, and in media, for some time, but without any sourcing to support the claim.) 'You're the best piece of tail he'll ever have,' Trump reportedly told Hicks of Lewandowski. Hope Hicks, now the White House communications director, was rumored to have an 'on-and-off romantic relationship' with Trump's first campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski. She illustrated her opinion of her boss with a whole series of facial expressions: eyes rolling, mouth agape, head snapping back.' Conway's visceral distaste for her boss has previously been reported elsewhere.Ħ. 'She seemed to regard Trump as a figure of exhausting exaggeration or even absurdity. Wolff said Kellyanne Conway, the White House senior adviser, frequently maligned Trump in private-even as she defended him ferociously on television. Trump is a 'conventional misogynist,' Wolff reported, but he is trusting of women in the workplace: 'Women, according to Trump, were simply more loyal and trustworthy than men.' The women who work with him, however, are subject to a sexism they must simply endure, according to Wolff.ĥ. (Trump has said that reports he watches several hours of television daily are untrue.)Ĥ. 'Much of the president's daily conversation was a repetitive rundown of what various anchors and hosts had said about him,' Wolff wrote. Trump was obsessed with how he was covered in the mainstream media, even as he routinely derided The New York Times, CNN and other outlets. 'Men who demand the most loyalty tend to be the least loyal pricks,' Ailes is reported to have complained. Ailes had a falling out with Trump, 'piqued by the constant reports that Trump was bad-mouthing him,' according to Wolff.

'With O'Reilly and Hannity on board,' Wolff writes, 'there could be television riches fuelled by, into the foreseeable future, a new Trump-inspired era of right-wing passion and hegemony.'Ģ. After being deposed as Fox News chairman, Roger Ailes courted Stephen Bannon, then the chief White House political strategist, with the idea of starting a new conservative network, one that was expected to also attract some of the brightest lights at Fox News. Below are some of the key revelations from the British GQ excerpt:ġ.

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