How Melania Is Trump’s Insider Threat: Wolff
4/29/202657 min
Get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan at https://incogni.com/beast #ad Michael Wolff and Joanna Coles dive straight into the chaos engulfing Trump’s orbit, from the escalating Melania–Jimmy Kimmel feud that’s backfiring inside the White House to the stunning realization among insiders that Melania has shifted from quiet asset to liability, dragging Epstein questions and an unraveling public image back into the spotlight. As King Charles’s high-stakes visit collides with Trump’s ego and obsession with optics, the contrast between royal discipline and White House dysfunction becomes impossible to ignore, especially against the backdrop of a White House Correspondents Dinner thrown into literal and political turmoil. With assassination scares reframed as political currency, media missteps fueling Trump’s grievances, and a presidency increasingly defined by chaos as strategy, Wolff reveals a West Wing gripped by anxiety, miscalculation, and a growing sense that everything—from foreign policy to late-night comedy—is spiraling in ways no one can fully control. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsMichael Wolff· Guest0:00
I'm having discussions with people I know in the White House, and there is a different side, a very different side, which is that Melania Trump, who has basically been, for the last 10 years, regarded as a general plus. In the White House, they kind of joke that she gets a, a, a sort of, a sort of promote because the country recognizes how difficult it would be to be married to Donald Trump.
Joanna Coles· Host0:26
Uh, she gets a sympathy vote.
Michael Wolff· Guest0:28
They now feel that she has become a huge liability. Within the White House, it's like, "Oh my God, the Melania situation is a real problem."
Joanna Coles· Host0:38
[upbeat music] Michael.
Michael Wolff· Guest0:43
Joanna.
Joanna Coles· Host0:45
You're back from Venice.
Michael Wolff· Guest0:47
I'm back from Venice, and you are in, um, the home country.
Joanna Coles· Host0:52
I am in the UK, where I had to come to deal with some, uh, family health matters, which are, uh, quite grueling, actually. Um, but before we go any further- So you're in, you're in, you're in Yorkshire. I'm in Yorkshire. I'm where I grew up. I'm actually in my childhood home, um, which is not where I expected to be. Uh, and people with elderly parents probably know the special agony that goes on at this stage of life. Anyway, I am, uh, I am in Yorkshire, and it's a beautiful time of year to be here, actually. But before