1. Ivanka has hopes to be president
Trump's daughter and her husband Jared Kushner apparently struck a deal where she would run for president in the future. Wolff wrote:
"Balancing risk against reward, both Jared and Ivanka decided to accept roles in the West Wing over the advice of almost everyone they knew. It was a joint decision by the couple, and, in some sense, a joint job. Between themselves, the two had made an earnest deal: If sometime in the future the opportunity arose, she'd be the one to run for president"
2. Trump hated his own inauguration
Given the arguments about the size of the crowd following the event, it's not surprising that Trump had some bad feeling on the day. Wolff wrote:
"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 face: angry and pissed off, shoulders hunched, arms swinging, brow furled, lips pursed."
3. Steve Bannon thought Donald Jr's Russia meeting was 'treasonous'
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon commented on the June 2016 meeting, in which the Russians had offered Donald Trump Jr damaging information on Hillary Clinton. He told Wolff:
"The three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the 25th floor - with no lawyers. They didn't have any lawyers. Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad s***, and I happen to think it's all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately"
On top of all of this, he doesn't have high hopes for how Trump Jr will come out of all of this, saying that "They're going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV".
4. And thinks that Trump was present in the meeting
According to Wolff, Steve Bannon said that "The chance that Don Jr did not walk these jumos up to his father’s office on the twenty-sixth floor is zero".
5. Trump admires Rupert Murdoch
Trump supposedly holds Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, in high regard. He told his guests that he was "one of the greats, the last of the greats" and was desperate for his approval.
6. Yet Murdoch thinks he's an 'idiot'
However, Wolff, who has previously written a biography of Murdoch, described a call between Trump and the media mogul. After a meeting with Silicon Valley executives, Trump told Murdoch that he wanted to help them, to which Murdoch told him "they don't need your help".
When the conversation turned to Trump's immigration policy, Murdoch told him that his promises to build a wall and close the borders would be difficult to enact. Trump simply said, "We'll figure it out". After the call, reportedly, Murdoch said: "What a f***ing idiot".
7. Ivanka mocked her dad's comb-over
In what will likely be the most aggravating for the president to read, Wolff described how Ivanka spoke of her father within the White House, before detailing exactly how Trump creates that hairdo:
"She treated her father with a degree of detachment, even irony, going so far as to make fun of his comb-over to others. She often described the mechanics behind it to friends: an absolutely clean pate - a contained island after scalp-reduction -surgery - surrounded by a furry circle of hair around the sides and front, from which all ends are drawn up to meet in the center and then swept back and secured by a stiffening spray.
"The color, she would point out to comical effect, was from a product called Just for Men - the longer it was left on, the darker it got. Impatience resulted in Trump's orange-blond hair color."
8. Trump found the White House 'scary'
Trump, no doubt used to living by his own rules, found his move a little "vexing", according to Wolff:
"Trump, in fact, found the White House to be vexing and even a little scary. He retreated to his own bedroom - the first time since the Kennedy White House that a presidential couple had maintained separate rooms. In the first days, he ordered two television screens in addition to the one already there, and a lock on the door, precipitating a brief standoff with the Secret Service, who insisted they have access to the room."
9. The administration was uncertain of priorities
The White House deputy chief of staff, Katie Walsh, asked the president's senior advisor what the administration wanted to achieve, but reportedly he still wasn't sure after six weeks in office:
"'Just give me the three things the president wants to focus on,' she [Katie Walsh] demanded. 'What are the three priorities of this White House?' It was the most basic question imaginable - one that any qualified presidential candidate would have answered long before he took up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Six weeks into Trump's presidency, Kushner was wholly without an answer. 'Yes,' he said to Walsh. 'We should probably have that conversation.'"
10. Flynn knew that ties to Russia were 'a problem'
Former US National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who has now been indicted in the Justice Department special counsel's inquiry, said that he knew his acceptance of money from Moscow for a speech would have consequences. Wolff posits that Flynn "had been told by friends that it had not been a good idea to take $45,000 from the Russians for a speech. 'Well it would only be a problem if we won,' he assured them."
11. Trump was 'befuddled' by his victory
Wolff described that when they realized that Trump was on his way to victory, Don Jr explained that his father "looked as if he had seen a ghost":
"Melania was in tears - and not of joy. There was, in the space of little more than an hour, in Steve Bannon's not unamused observation, a befuddled Trump morphing into a disbelieving Trump and then into a horrified Trump. But still to come was the final transformation: Suddenly, Donald Trump became a man who believed that he deserved to be, and was wholly capable of being, the president of the United States."