Only the Best People

An excerpt from The Best People: Trump’s Cabinet and the Siege on Washington by Alexander Nazaryan describes President Trump berating adviser Kellyanne Conway in front of the author:

Trump also became upset at senior adviser Kellyanne Conway, who was sitting in on the meeting, for apparently keeping Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward from interviewing the president for his own book Fear, which was also critical of Trump. “Kellyanne didn’t tell me he asked 10 times for a meeting. I wish she did,” he said bitterly of Conway. “I’m sure it would have been a little bit of a different book.” This obviously bothered him. “You should have told me,” he went on. “Honestly, you should have told me.”

Conway just sat there, taking it as she has doubtlessly taken it from the boss many times before. You couldn’t last in this administration unless you were willing to take it daily, take with a smile and a “yessir,” take it even while knowing that much of the country loathed you, considered you’re complicit in one of the great political crimes in American history.