Elle talked to 23 reporters, all of them women, about what it was like covering the White House during the Trump years. It’s as enlightening — even now! — as it is infuriating.

A sharp insight from Olivia Nuzzi, who had some of the best coverage for New York magazine, from when she broke the story John Kelly was about to get fired:

I was on no sleep and very late on my deadline. When you work on a palace intrigue story about the Trump White House, it activates nefarious actors and crazy people. You might have six sources that “independently” tell you something, but that doesn’t mean anything because they’re all actually insane and evil. The interview happened, and I went to smoke in Lafayette Park to unwind. I called my editor and asked, “Did I hallucinate this? Can you listen to my recording?”

I regretted in some ways how I told that story. It didn’t do a great job of conveying how powerful people in the country spend their time, in the middle of crises, talking about and trying to prevent the spread of gossip about their workplace. It’s been four years of psychotic drama, at the most personal, petty level you could imagine. That is the story of why Trump failed to do anything, for the most part, that he set out to do.

Trump’s contempt for other people — literally anyone else — should have made it obvious how patently unfit he is to public service. The way he treated the press was beyond the pale for a president of the United States.

But his smug, sneering, and disdainful treatment of these women, and in particular the Black women of the press, should never be forgotten. Just a rotten human down to his very core.