The inside joke became-echoing Karl Rove as Bush's brain and later Steve Bannon as Trump's brain-that now it was Sean Hannity who had become Trump's resident genius. Trump had ended up with someone even stupider than he was. Yet this was fitting, because Trump deeply resented the implication that he ever needed to depend on someone else's acumen or intelligence-or, really, that there could possibly be anyone who was smarter than he was. But with Hannity as his sidekick, he could feel quite certain that no one would think he was relying on someone smarter. {This, in fact, was a frequent internal debate: Who was stupider, Trump or Hannity?}
( Michael Wolff )
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