Trump and his staff debated whether he should emerge from his limousine after his inauguration.
First Lady Melania Trump weighs in on policy and strategy. Trump’s aides consider her judgment impeccable.
Trump wants to project a tough-guy image and vetoes releasing official White House photos that betray unguarded moments, as in this photo.
Trump’s executive orders rolling back regulations signaled to businesses they could expand and hire more workers, boosting the economy.
Kellyanne Conway is known as the number one White House leaker. At right is Steve Bannon.
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are the Teflon aides, pushing the most disastrous decisions of the Trump presidency yet remaining in place.
Reince Priebus, at left, presided over many of the successes of the Trump presidency.
Former U.S. Marine Corps General John F. Kelly brought a semblance of discipline to the Oval Office. At left is Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Trump tells friends that billionaires are constantly asking him to fix them up with Communications Director Hope Hicks, a former model, but he refuses.
“I’ve gotten a sense he always feels under attack,” Sean Spicer says of Trump.
Unlike Jenna and Barbara Bush, Barron Trump treats his Secret Service agents with respect.
Trump uses Mink hair spray on his famous hair.
Trump and Melania have long attended the annual International Red Cross Ball at Mar-a-Lago. “It’s like a religion to them,” Trump says. “They worry about this 365 days a year. It’s incredible. Only in Palm Beach.”
The author and his wife, Pamela Kessler, have attended Trump’s New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago for two decades.
Trump uses Mar-a-Lago as the Winter White House to forge relationships with congressional and world leaders.
Aside from playing golf, Trump works almost all the time at Mar-a-Lago, never following his wife, Melania, to one of the two pools.