He actually began to demodernize this splendid mill and install the ancient features of the old one he had left, and would have done it had not the authorities stopped him. He had his coat off and sleeves rolled up, ...

The shareholders were then shouldering a burden of liability out of proportion to their mere ownership of theoretical fractions of the business.

If Trump himself had been more experienced at governing, or if he'd kept some senior officials longer than one or two Scaramuccis, or if he'd surrounded himself with true pros, not sycophants and sons-in-law, things might have been different.

He is a Welsh bard, and a man full of animation, anecdote, and independence; […]