Weak Trump Losing Physical and Mental Grip: Wolff | Inside Trump’s Head

Weak Trump Losing Physical and Mental Grip: Wolff | Inside Trump’s Head

I think we’re seeing a new weakness in his hold on the Republican Party. He looks terrible wherever he is mentally. I think we’ve seen some evident weirdness. The weaknesses we have here are his
his physical health, his mental health and then his hold on the party itself. Michael. And, Did you have a good Thanksgiving? Yeah, I had the same Thanksgiving
I’ve had year in and year out for the over
the course of my life. I don’t think that’s true, actually. I mean, I’ve known you through a couple of waves, Michael,
so I’m pretty confident that’s not true. The wives change, the children grow older. New children appear. Grandchildren appear. But fundamentally,
the Thanksgiving stays the same. The wives change. The children grow older,
new children appear. That literally
sounds like the first few lines of a poem. I’m trying to think it would be not William
Carlos Williams, possibly Philip Larkin. Yes, I would. I would say it’s of of a long novel. Oh, of a long novel. Okay. Or the novel of this podcast. Okay. We need to start to remind people
that if anybody is in New York
and cares to come and see us live, we will be at the 92nd Street
Y on January the 21st. I am told that tickets are selling fast, so if you would like to come and see us
live, feel free. Go to 92nd Street y.org, I guess, book your tickets now. Yeah, and I’ve done the 92nd Street,
wise, quite a number of times. It’s it’s actually a great venue. So we should have a nice evening. Well, I’ve done it once, Michael. I’ve done it once, and I loved it. And I loved our live audiences. We loved our event at the city of the Museum of New York
and were excited to see more people. It seemed to be a testy
Thanksgiving for Donald Trump. He was back to his insults again. He called Tim Walz, remember Tim Walz? Anybody there? Barely. He called Tim Walz retarded. And, as we know, he was yelling piggy
at one reporter last week. Then he called Katie Rogers that
the New York Times ugly inside and out. And then he called another reporter
stupid. Are you stupid? So what do we think? Did he just have too much sugar? Well, you know,
I think we have to remember that, he has insulted people across the last. What are we at now? 11 years? So, I I’m not sure that is an indication
of anything other than the fact
that he is Donald Trump. But I feel like they’re coming
faster and furious. I wondered if he had too much
lemon meringue. I don’t know,
I’ve been around a lot of Trump insults. They come, they come. I they seem predictable to me. But let’s assume
because I think that there is other other there are other reasons
to think that we are seeing a new level of weakness. And and that’s because he
he looks terrible. He does look terrible. He looks terrible. Wherever he is mentally,
I think we’ve seen some some evident weirdness. The, you know, the fact that he can go and it would seem
in the course of a day from, from being a, a Putin booster to a Zelenskiy booster, that he can go from, bomb. Donny, you know,
we’re going to deport the guy to. We’re going to embrace the guy. I mean, I think I think that he’s he’s
a traveling very quickly between between the,
the extremes of these issues, as though a, he doesn’t know what he stands
for anymore. Or B he forgets. So I mean, I think that there, that
there is something curious there and then. And both could be true. I mean, they’re not mutually exclusive. He could have forgotten
what he stands for, and he could have forgotten
that he’s forgotten what he stands for. Exactly. Exactly. And then there’s I think I think
we’re seeing his a new and and really. And this is, for the first time,
a new weakness in his hold on the Republican Party. And, you know, that’s Marjorie
Taylor Greene, but. And then I found this interview with, with Mike, what’s his name? I can’t like. Johnson. Johnson,
the leader of the house with his wife. Never remember this guy’s name. I mean, it’s it’s one of those. One of those. I well, it’s a very ordinary name. Generic names
that nobody seems to have anymore. And he seems like Mike Johnson
seems like a guy who nobody is any more. You know, a regular old white guy, doofus. A regular old white guy. Doofus who who? I think I watched the same interview. It was a podcast,
and he talked about his aim being to uphold the institution that he’s
head, of, which I found reassuring. And I felt that he was trying to indicate
to anybody listening. And I don’t think there were very many people listening,
apart from perhaps you and me, that, that he understood it was under threat and he was going to do his best
to uphold its value. I thought, that that interview indicated
that he was having a nervous breakdown. Oh, interesting. Say more. I mean, he basically said
my life is falling apart. I can’t really, you know,
this job is way over my head. Nothing is going right. I mean, it was a
it was a kind of a bleak picture. And I wondered when I saw this, if other people in that Trump orbit of of of necessary loyalty and fealty experienced the same thing,
that it is incredibly unrewarding, that all that it gets you is grief because
you’re, you’re you’re a kind of pinball. Just you never know what Donald Trump
wants. You never know
what he’s going to ask you to do. You never know what breach
you’re going to have to step into. You never know how foolish
you’re going to look. Well, he said at one point,
I jotted this down. We have a joke. Meaning him and his wife, Kelly,
who, was doing the interview with him. We have a joke. I am not speaker of the House. I am a mental health counselor. And he talks about people
calling him at 1130 at night that he was completely overwhelmed. And then I thought
this was an interesting quote. So maybe I’m coming around
to your point of view. His wife, was asked her observations
of of him in the job, and she said he overestimates
what he can get done. Yeah. I mean, which would I mean, I mean,
I don’t exactly understand understand that except as a way to say
that he’s not getting anything done, that he’s feels behind the eight ball
all of the time, that he has no mastery over the job that he holds,
which which obviously makes sense. Remember. And this is back in, this is I mean, he gets he, he, he gets this job in the fall of 2023. And he is nobody we’ve never heard,
ever heard of before. He’s not a leader in, in the House. He’s a he’s a, he’s a basically nobody congressman with from a right conservative right wing background. But even that is not particularly notable. And he’s there by default. Right. He’s last man
standing after Kevin McCarthy as, I think 14 votes
and they all go against him. And then there were subsequently
others, others who fell by the wayside. And suddenly it is this person
that we’ve we’ve, we’ve never heard of in person
who’s kind of patently unprepared for it. This is a big job. I mean, it’s a major management job. And then on top of that,
you are not only managing your, your House caucus,
but you having to manage the president of the United States
who is actually managing you. Right? Donald Trump has openly said, I’m
the president and the speaker, which is rather disillusioning,
I would imagine, to Mike and Kelly. Johnson, that episode, which I’m, which I, which is just among the many,
many things that have been forgotten, there was a moment in which in which
Donald Trump was he was not he was not he was not a member of Congress,
and he was not even the president then. But it was
it was like, well, I’ll be speaker, and, well. And you mentioned the perks and, and, they’re asked what the perks,
and neither of them can think of anything. And then he goes,
there’s not a lot of perks. And then he goes, well,
the speaker’s balcony. And then he describes
the night that he was elected. His family come to the office,
and they all have sandwiches on the speaker’s balcony, and you’re like,
oh, that’s not much of a perk. Although then
he said that he’d he’d gone to a UFC fight and he’d met Jelly Roll and Kid Rock,
and that was a huge perk. And I was like, oh, that,
that doesn’t sound like a huge book. No, no. And that when he was ordered to go to that
fight because, you know, Trump, I mean, that’s one of the things that they
that they do in the white House is they like to turn out people loyalists
for these events that Trump goes to,
especially especially the UFC. So, no, I mean, it sounds
like the worst job in the world, but I also think that it it is representative
of the what other people feel. I mean, the Marjorie Taylor
Greene thing is among or among among everything and among the objections
that she that she may have had you sense her incredible weariness of having to deal with Donald Trump, of whom she’s in now,
you know, she’s gone from the greatest loyalists
to, to open rebellion. So and I think that we are seeing this
more and more throughout the Republican Party. So here’s the weaknesses we have
here are his his physical health, his mental health,
and then his hold on the party itself. So, I’d say that this is a possible inflection point. Well, there was also a report
last week in Punchbowl News, co-founded by the estimable
Anna Palmer, that, Marjorie Taylor
Greene was the canary in the coal mine, that there were actually several
other Congress people planning to step down
because they, too, had had enough. And they’re getting a ton of,
doxing online. Their families are threatened. I don’t know how much of that
is actually by just bad foreign actors. And it’s not real. But the good news for Marjorie Taylor
Greene is she has apparently, after five years in Congress,
she’s not leaving empty handed. Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning her
seat two days after she’s eligible
for a pension from Congress. I think most people would
resign their jobs at, If they are going to resign,
they would wait out the days before they, they received their pension. I mean, I think that there’s a larger
discussion, at least at least online. And I have no insight into this about about the amounts of money
that she may have made during her tenure as a congressperson. I think I think Laura Loomer is, you know, doing her
Laura Loomer thing about this. But what I would say and again,
I don’t know the details of that, but what I do certainly appreciate is that the Trump White House
is going to go to war, as it does with all of its, antagonists
with Marjorie Taylor Greene. So we’re going to we’re going to they’re
going to set her up as, as an enemy, and they’re going to try to take her down,
whether rightly or wrongly. Well, Laura Loomer,
I think, claimed her as yet another scout. Laura Loomer has been slightly below
the radar for the last few months, but she popped back up and went Loomer
two after MTG. Resigned. She also said,
and this was a post on X last week. It’s all about the money for her. Always has been. She’s doing this for the money. I expect to see her portfolio explode between now and January 2026. Marjorie Trader Greene. You know,
and I’m sure that that is, you know, Laura Loomer has always had a carried on, sotto
voce conversation with the president. And is it possible,
is it likely that that is that she is
they’re channeling an irate president. Of course. Interesting. Well,
we’ll be watching to see what comes out about Marjorie Taylor
Greene portfolio over the next few months. But what we can say is
she entered Congress with her family business, a construction business. We know she’ll get a full congressional
pension, but it’d be very interesting to know what else. We don’t know that
that was the worth of the business either. I mean,
I mean, we’ve seen this reported, but believe me,
as someone who has had his net worth. What is your net worth here? Well, I have seen mine was my net worth
is scant, but I have seen it rise to, extraordinary
heights on, on on the internet. So, All right,
well, we’ll we’ll discount I. Discount most internet numbers. All right, well, we’ll rely
on the white House to release Marjorie Taylor Greens gains
during her five years in Congress. I think that’s I think you’re right. That’s exactly what they’re going to do. And we encourage them. So I I’m very curious. Tim Walz responded to the retired comment by saying, release your MRI results. I mean, there’s always been calls
for Trump. Trump, to be more transparent, release
your taxes, release he releases nothing. And it has it has no effect. But, you know,
I think that we are starting to see a variety of issues which go to the heart of the contradictions
of the Trump contradictions and which are both emotional issues and oddly unifying issues. And it begins with Epstein, of course. I mean, Epstein is an issue of the right
and the left. And it is an issue that that continues
and continues and continues. And I think that’s part of what has
to happen here in terms of the opposition, a kind of focus on these these things. Now, I think the economy, affordability, whatever the word we’re we’re using is
coming, is coming strongly into the picture,
which uniting both sides. You know, life costs too much money. I mean, nobody is happy. Nobody perceives
the economy as getting better. Everyone perceives
the economy as getting worse. Except for the very rich,
because the markets have been on fire. Right. And and even even worse. I mean, that’s glaring
when the very rich thinks things are getting better in
the rest of us think that they don’t. That means that makes it feels like
things are even getting worse. In other words, it is it is an issue. It is a, you know, it is a flaw
in the Trump sent that Trump’s sense of endorsement ability
and of that Trump ability to always change the subject. The other issue that I think is, is grows more and more
every day is the cruelty issue. Now, you know,
there are two sides on the immigration dispute, and there will continue
to be two sides there. But I think what there isn’t a
what there aren’t two sides on is the the ugliness of these masked guys in black ripping people out of their homes
and away from their families, and to see video of it
rather now, constant video. So again,
that seems to be just another issue. Epstein the economy, the cruelty issue
that are these are not Partizan issues. I think they are rather unifying issues. And I think that they are issues that are, that are joined to Donald Trump. I mean, and then the other
the other issue too, which I think gains traction
every day, is the grift issue that it is Trump, his family
and his friends are clearly in it for what they can get
until they can’t get it anymore. And that is, is, again, one of those,
those issues that unites everybody. And this is
nobody is looking at this and thinking, thinking you go, guys. The Democrats have rightly been criticized
for all sorts of reasons. Very notably, they have had no response, really, to the Epstein affair. Joe Biden
didn’t ask for a release of the files. It was less of an issue then. But why do you think that is? And what should they be doing? Why didn’t the,
the Democrats press that issue? Why wasn’t it a campaign issue? Why wasn’t his friendship? Honestly, I think that they didn’t, they didn’t know it was the issue. I think they’ve been uncomfortable
with talking about the issue. It’s like, why the why the media
never made it an issue. Why? Why this story, has waited for so long? And I think the, I think the answer to
that is, is a level of, of discomfort with this, with the story. But is it discomfort because Bill Clinton
also took a lot of rides on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane, and they don’t want
to bring it back to the Democrats? Or is it just the general icky nature
which you’ve mentioned before? I think it is the general ickiness of it. I think it is the, you know, the Clinton
the Democrats thing. And I think that both that that
as to the probably the overriding issue here, you know, I think
I think people believe Donald Trump. You know, I passed them in the hallway,
instead of understanding that it was the window that opened, that gave you a view, the the
true view of Donald Trump’s character. It is the character issue. You know, and I think we’ve gone
I think there are two sides of this. There’s the conspiracy issue, which many people have embraced
about the Epstein affair. But then I think it is, and I think
it becomes clearer and clearer, especially when Donald Trump tries
to move further and further away from it or hide more and more of it, that it is
the Donald Trump character issue. He’s a dirty dog. And he’s been able to mask
that for a long time. That was kind of one of those those, you know, unknown known issues. Everybody knows it,
but but yet somehow he’s been able to change the subject when it’s
when it’s when it’s come up and has. And I think that that has, less he’s, he’s less and less able
to change the subject on Epstein. And Epstein is more and more an issue
about Donald Trump’s character. I’m not sure people care about his character, though,
because we’ve known, as you say, he’s a dirty dog. It turns out that you know, he’s
cheating on Melania shortly after she’d given birth to Barron
was in fact seen as a qualifying factor. People liked the fact he’d spent the night with,
or actually not even spent the night. Had a couple of hours
with with Stormy Daniels. Despite his denials, I don’t know why
he didn’t just lean into it. Well, I think I think that these
that these, that these things are you I mean, you’re you’re absolutely right. But what is the what becomes
the silver bullet? You know, what becomes you know,
there’s a lot of things that people that people know
or think they know or pieces of it, and they don’t crystallize
until until a moment. That’s the moment
that which becomes a scandal. And the connection to Epstein is the objective correlative of Donald Trump’s character,
the fact that he may well have known what was going on
at Jeffrey Epstein’s house in Palm Beach. He indubitably knew what was going on. They were the closest of friends, of which I have obviously said
many, many, many times you have. And, and that and now that has become
clearly one of the key issues. What did Donald Trump know about
Jeffrey Epstein and when did he know it? The tipping point for his character. But that is just one of these issues
that I think sticks to him. I mean, the economy, he’s not going to
escape the, the, the economic issue. And then the economic issue
is kind of broader and again, goes to Donald Trump personally,
which is he doesn’t know what he’s doing. And I think everybody has that sense
of the, of this tariffs today. Tariffs not today. Threats today. Threats, not today. Inflation. Does he really understand that? You know, again and again it is it is on him
and in the economy, you know, basically falls on anybody who is,
who is the president. But then,
then the broader context of a president who more and more shows that he’s, you know, he’s he’s just not capable,
certainly not consistent. And that probably means he’s not capable
of dealing with it, especially as things get worse and worse
and not better and better. I agree with you. And also, the physical manifestation
of his exhaustion and his whiplash on subjects
is so obvious, particularly in his face. I mean, his eyes,
his eyes are barely open. And I’m not talking about when he’s dozing off in the chair
behind the desk in the Oval Office. I’m talking about just sort of peering
at people, the videos that came out from Mar a Lago where he appeared
to be having Thanksgiving. He just looked like
his eyes were almost glued together. He could barely force them apart. Well, you know, of course,
I mean, he’s a you know, he’s a 79 year old man,
who doesn’t take care of himself. And to the degree
that Mike Johnson might be, might be experiencing
all kinds of the pressures of the job and the whiplash
of dealing with, with, with Donald Trump. I think Trump after
I mean, he’s done this for a year. And it has been an extraordinary year,
probably the most extraordinary year
in the history of the American presidency. I think there are two things
he emerges from this year as a incredibly dominant character in this, moment
in time and in this job. But, but the
dominance, I think, and I think this is what we’re seeing
has had a, an enormous price. It’s had a price on, on him physically
because it really demands has demanded this, you know, this obsessive, I mean, just living in this middle of this
drama every day. And then it’s it’s
it’s exacted a price on on so many people around him, the mike,
Mike Johnson of it all. When he came in, he said, Russia, Ukraine,
I’m going to solve it. And my first day, you know, this would
never have happened if I were president. We seem to be going back and forth. More whiplash
on what’s happening with his envoy, Steve Wyckoff, the former, Manhattan real estate developer. And where are we with that? There was 28 points. Now, those teams who knocked down. Wyckoff, who is central Wyckoff
is essentially the secretary of state, although there are many secretaries
of, of of state, including his son in law, who I believe
does want to be the secretary of. State. Well, and who has who’s miraculously
appeared in the middle of the Russia Ukraine negotiations. Right. Despite having no, no official role. None whatsoever, except the bagman. But, but Wyckoff is an a is a famous, in New York circles,
a famous dummy. So this dummy, one more of the dummies
that Trump has, has elevated into into positions that are, you know, that that, honestly. And let me say this not stop Ashley. Demand a bit of intelligence. Well, and also a man that doesn’t
bother to take notes when he’s messing with the Russian president. So he comes out, gives a report
of the conversation, which turns out to be different from the Russians
understanding of the situation. Doesn’t like to take anybody with him. He likes to go on his own. I mean, it’s very, very strange. Wyckoff is a lackey. And he is. And he’s doing trying to give Trump
what he wants. Now, which is,
I think, in a difficult place here because I’m not sure that Trump knows
what he wants. What doesn’t Trump just want an announcement saying, I
if I’m going to get the peace prize next year, because now I’ve sold Russia,
Ukraine ideally. But and he doesn’t know if that to me. I mean, at the same time, he wants to be,
wants Putin to like him. We don’t know why this has gone on
for a very long time. It is always seemed dubious, certainly,
but suspicious also. And and that that theme continues. You know, I want to be Vladimir Putin’s friend or equal or, Well, this is because he just admires
Vladimir Putin’s control over his country. We don’t know if he admires,
if he admires Putin, if Putin has something
on him, we we don’t know. But at the same time, then suddenly he’s, suddenly this then goes under, other people take this over
and we are no longer, a Vladimir Putin. But boy, we’re now, we’re now, we’re now trying to give the Ukrainians what they want
and what the Ukrainians, what the Ukrainians want is, is not going to satisfy
what the Russians want and vice versa. So, so we’ve had a week or ten days
of activity and nothing has changed. Nothing. Nothing has changed. So we’re gearing up for not only your own case against Melania, but the Melania documentary
for fans of her book Melania, which, as we’ve pointed out before, nobody is thanked in, no editor is acknowledged,
no researcher, no fact checker. Literally
nobody is acknowledged in the book. It’s as if the book just arrived on the scene and it’s tethered to nothing
other than Skyhorse Publishing, which obviously also publishes
Bobby Kennedy. We’ve got the Melania documentary,
for which she got paid $40 million by Amazon
coming out in January. 70% of the back
and $10 million corporate sponsorship, a, Daily Beast watch party. That’s all I’m promising. We will figure out how to do a Daily Beast watch party when it releases, and Michael
will be doing commentary, and I will be. I will be throwing in my own comments too. But what I was coming to was the director, Brett Ratner of the Rush Hour series. Was it the rush? I mean, I mean, paint the picture. So. So Brett Ratner has been one of the more among the many egregious MeToo cancellations in Hollywood. Brett Ratner has has led the pack. Speaking of dirty dogs,
I think there was a breathtaking number of complaints against him. Limitless, it would seem. And so how he came, came to it came to to be the director. I mean, he’s an action film director. So. And now he’s the, the director of this hagiographic soft focus. Based off suck up. Yes. Picture of the first lady a so bit. Got a couple of questions. A why would he possibly do that? Okay, he’s out of a job. But. Well,
and I think he wants proximity to power. Right. Well, yes. I mean, but
what do you get from proximity to power? What we now know, that, Paramount Pictures, which is, which is run by the Ellison family. Who? Larry Ellison of Oracle fame
and his son, David Ellison. Exactly. So, who are allies of the president
of the United States? They they have in the last, what, 30 days, 60 days accomplished a very difficult merger, of various motion
picture companies, including Paramount, which also owns CBS, which depended on the goodwill of the president of the United States. And so now, Brett Ratner, also a new ally of the president
of the United States, because he has made the first ladies documentary, has now,
I had his cancellation canceled and is and the Rush Hour
series, Rush Hour four, I believe, has just been signed up
by Paramount Studios. The chain could change for everybody. So you’re asking,
what did Brett Ratner get out of this? He gets his career back and he gets a sequel to rush as one,
two and three. Yes. I mean, Ratner has been one of
those very, very successful, movie show business entrepreneurs of attracting a great deal of money, from around the world to finance
these action films, which actually, you know, have a long history of,
in fact, doing very, very well. So he’s, well, he’s a cash
machine for, investors. Well, he’s a he’s a Hollywood machine. Why do people invest in Hollywood? That’s a complicated issue, because
usually it actually doesn’t really return. But there are other rewards. Status women. It’s a if if you can play that game,
it is a very lucrative one in. Brett Ratner was very good
at playing that game until he was, faced all these allegations
and that particular moment in time, which
which seemed to have finished him off. But apparently not. I’m surprised we haven’t seen any, Brett
Ratner emails in the Epstein files. I feel like
someone would have been referring to him. I’ve never seen knowingly see. No, no, no,
no, Epstein and Ratner knew each other. I don’t I actually know, I know that they
that they did know each other. How seriously, I don’t know. Well,
I’ve never knowingly seen a Russian movie, and I’m not planning to, but
I will watch his documentary of Melania. Perhaps it’ll include, you know, action, action shots of her
staggering in her stilettos across the lawn to Marine Force One,
and suddenly it takes. Oh, I think she has a potential
as a as a superhero. All right, Michael, it’s time to go off
and have our turkey sandwiches. I believe we’re
recording this on Friday morning. I haven’t had breakfast yet. I’m going to have a turkey sandwich
for lunch with some cranberry sauce
and a little bit of stuffing. From the box. From my catered meal, which was brought
by friends and which was delicious. I was so relieved not to have to cook it. A lot of people, thought that you were wrong to criticize me for being excited
for having a catered meal and now comments. I’m just saying, well. Because it’s a country of of,
you know, of takeout diners because nobody, nobody cooks anymore. That’s, you know, the, the, the cruel fact of being a modern American
except for me, by the way. Yeah, you do cook and you cook very well. I was actually defending to a couple of,
commentators. You’re cooking because you do cook
very well and you take it very seriously. I just feel
I had two years of feeding children. And so much as I love
cooking enormous meals for friends, I was quite happy
not to have to this year. I just have to add, not as many years of feeding children as I have had. Well, three
because I didn’t have a second family. Your choice my friend. Your choice. Or as many mouths. Definitely true. I couldn’t possibly
have afforded to have that many mouths. Because you don’t have an internet
net worth. I don’t have an internet network. I’m not entirely sure
I have a net worth at all, actually, but. But there we go. So if you have been. Thank you for watching us. And please
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We read them. I try and answer
as many as I possibly can. I’m trying to think
the other criticisms of you, Michael. I think there was one, saying
that you were accusing me of liking bland food because I was British
and they didn’t agree with that. You think that’s a British person? I hope so, I hope we have some British listeners, and I know
we have a lot of shout out to Sydney. We have a lot of viewers,
oddly, in Australia. I think it’s because
when we put this podcast out at 9:00 in the evening on YouTube, it’s 9:00
in the morning in Sydney or thereabouts. So anyway, Down Under, thank you. Also, it’s really not true
because the most popular meal in Britain now is, I think, chicken vindaloo,
which is pretty damn spicy. So it’s not true that British people like bland things is true
that a lot of British cooking is bland. Yes, but a British curry is, distinct from actually a curry. You know, it’s pretty. Spicy. This land you think it’s. And it’s so not bland. Anyway, we can disagree to disagree, but
I am going off to have a turkey sandwich. I’m feeling on the edge of blood
sugar. Low. I’ve just been texted our BBC members and I am, which who I am. I am always fond of reciting their names
or this. It’s a very good gift
for a friend at Christmas or a relative at Christmas, a subscription to the Daily
Beast podcast and a BBC tier membership. And what you get with that subscription is me reading your name
as though it is a piece of poetry. I would actually listen to you
reading the phone book, as they say. That was very good
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Michael Wolff joins Joanna Coles to probe Donald Trump’s newest — and perhaps most perilous — level of weakness. From a fraying inner circle to the small, telling humiliations Trump tries to hide, Wolff traces how the former president’s aura of dominance is thinning just as legal threats, foreign crises, and a faltering presidency converge. Wolff walks through how Trump’s allies are suddenly keeping their distance and how MAGA power brokers are beginning to hedge. It all leads to the question that hangs over this episode: has Trump finally reached the point where weakness, not strength, defines his movement?

📖 Title: Weak Trump Losing Physical and Mental Grip: Wolff
👂 Podcast: Inside Trump’s Head
📺 Episode: 41
🎧 Format: Full Podcast
📅 Date: November 29, 2025
🎙️ Hosts: Joanna Coles, Michael Wolff

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