Donald Trump

“The structural changes that Facebook has imposed on the media, which is inextricably linked to the power of political parties, is what enabled the lives of Trump, for example, right?”

“Once the media lost its power and its gatekeeper status, The parties, at the same time, because they were inextricably tied to the media, lost their power and gatekeeping status, and no one sort of realized this happened until, really, Obama came along and cam…”

“The news covered Trump because people wanted to see more Trump. They wanted, they, and so the news in media organizations were responding To the incentives that they had in a world where they were no longer gatekeepers, they were sort of serfs in Google and Fa…”

“President Trump didn't invent protectionism. He kind of Americanized it, but anybody that didn't see that train coming for like 10 or 15 years was crazy.”

“What Trump does is I don't think it's so much a function of genius on his part, so much as a confluence of personality traits, so enrages his opponents and disorients them, and is so the opposite of what they have experienced dealing with, that It's almost lik…”

“So what happens is that the platform of Trump has set off a cascade of things that will lead to National stacks and neutral protocols.”

“What Trump does is I don't think it's so much a function of genius on his part, so much as a confluence of personality traits, so enrages his opponents and disorients them, and is so the opposite of what they have experienced dealing with, that it's almost lik…”

“People who write about, like, Trump, you know, when he was in office in, like, a tell-all, sales go up, fall crashing down, and never return ever again.”

“No, I don't think so. I don't, I mean, we don't really share anything in common. I mean, he comes from an extremely privileged background. He, you know, he was born into a very wealthy millionaire family, and I was born in very humble beginnings. There's a lot…”

“Even though I didn't vote for Trump, I am a 110%, you know, down for making America truly awesome.”

“Teen Vogue's traffic exploded from two million to twelve million. Print subscribers tripled.”

“He is the funniest president. I'm sorry, Trump is the funniest president. Reagan, close second. He is, and then Lyndon Johnson. He is legitimately funny, and being funny is an incredible communications hack. It gets people's attention. It makes them keep tunin…”

“One is he speaks at like a third grade vocabulary level. He doesn't use words that nobody can understand. Maybe cofefe was the one time. Cofefe aside, he uses words where everybody knows what the words mean. Strong, great, bad, good. Everybody knows what these…”