at the washington post, tell us about the state of play in the white house. you have heard from the beginning of this administration this idea of caging the president or surrounding him with people but his natural state has always been in the private sect or the way he like to operate is closer to what he s arriving at right now, correct? that s exactly right. what he s doing at the white house is replicating what he had on the 26th floor of the trump tower in manhattan. he ran the trump organization, him on his cluttered desk calling people on the outside to make decisions. he had a staff, he had lawyers who helped him with his litigation, he had a secretary to field his calls but he got his advice from friends on the outside, bankers, media personalities, from even rival developers and businessmen and he acted everyday waking up not sure what he s going to do but acting on impulse and gut. he believes he has the best gut instincts of anyone out there. a lot of people would questi