“Everyone says Trump is going to change everything way too much. Well, maybe Trump is going to change everything way too little. That seems like the much more plausible risk to me.”— Peter Thiel, nytimes.com
“Up until Trump announced his candidacy, the conventional wisdom was that you had to be a professional politician in order to run. You had to have a background that was politically scrubbed. In other words, smart people who didn't live perfect lives could never run.”— Mark Cuban, cnn.com
“Part of the bigger problem with Donald Trump is, when you sit and talk to him one-on-one, he's reasonable, he comes across as caring, he's open-minded, but then, all of that just is thrown out the window when he tweets and when he communicates with the media—and when he communicates at all.”— Mark Cuban, businessinsider.com
“Ain’t nothing gonna happen to Trump, man. Nothing’s gonna happen to Trump. Here’s the crazy thing. It might just work out. Trump might work out. Yeah, I said it—[laughing] Trump might work out.”— Chris Rock, scrapsfromtheloft.com
“As a celebrity, when your celebrity dies, your career dies. I want to be a mogul, like P. Diddy or Donald Trump—I guess they’re celebrities, too, but not celebrities like ‘Oh shit, I need to get a TV show.’”— Tila Tequila, nymag.com
“My support is also unwavering for the president and his agenda—as I have shown daily in my national radio broadcasts, on the pages of Breitbart News and in speeches and appearances from Tokyo and Hong Kong to Arizona and Alabama. President Trump was the only candidate that could have taken on and de…”— Steve Bannon, cnn.com
“Donald Trump, Jr. is both a patriot and a good man. He has been relentless in his advocacy for his father and the agenda that has helped turn our country around.”— Steve Bannon, cnn.com
“Hillary Clinton's not very bright. Everybody says she's so smart, so much smarter than Donald Trump. She doesn't really have a grasp. She doesn't have a grasp on what's important and what's not, and that’s what’s essential in a leader.”— Steve Bannon, dailycaller.com
“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while...I want you to quote this, the media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States... The elite…”— Steve Bannon, nyti.ms
“Donald Trump, for 30 years, has singled out China as the biggest single problem we have on the world stage. The elites in this country have got us in a situation, we're at not economic war with China, China is at economic war with us.”— Steve Bannon, cbsnews.com
“I don’t like to prognosticate but I was the very first guy three years ago that said Trump will be the Republican nominee and was mocked and ridiculed.”— Steve Bannon, news.com.au
“Trump is a product of a seething populism and nationalism that is the driving political force.”— Steve Bannon, news.com.au
“We don’t like to try to guess what’s going to happen in the future, but I’ve got to tell you, I think people were very engaged in this election, and I think will be very engaged as time goes forward. The key is to hold people accountable. The hobbits, or the deplorables, had a great run in ’16. Ever…”— Steve Bannon, breitbart.com
“The emperor has no clothes. Suddenly everywhere people are going: Oh my God, it’s true, he has no clothes. That’s the background to the perception and the understanding that will finally end this — that will end this presidency.”— Michael Wolff, newsbusters.org
“Trump did not enjoy his own inauguration. He was angry that A-level stars had snubbed the event, disgruntled with the accommodations at Blair House, and visibly fighting with his wife, who seemed on the verge of tears. Throughout the day, he wore what some around him had taken to calling his golf fa…”— Michael Wolff, nymag.com
“From the moment of victory, the Trump administration became a looking-glass presidency: Every inverse assumption about how to assemble and run a White House was enacted and compounded, many times over. The decisions that Trump and his top advisers made in those first few months — from the slapdash t…”— Michael Wolff, nymag.com
“He had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald’s—nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely premade.”— Michael Wolff, nymag.com
“Not only would Trump not be president, almost everyone in the campaign agreed, he should probably not be. Conveniently, the former conviction meant nobody had to deal with the latter issue.”— Michael Wolff, nymag.com