How Trump Is Trapped By His Own Idiocy: Wolff
4/24/20261 hr 1 min
Michael Wolff joins Joanna Coles to analyze a White House increasingly defined by self-inflicted constraint. At the center is the escalating Hormuz crisis, where Trump’s aggressive posture collides with the realities of this critical global chokepoint and the strategic blowback it’s incurring. Which comes as MAGA coalition fractures widen: Tucker Carlson breaks publicly over foreign policy, RFK Jr. stumbles through repeated hearings while defending unpopular anti-vax positions, and key officials scramble to distance themselves from decisions they helped shape. The throughline is an administration in which impulse destroys strategy, and in which Trump’s own style of decision-making increasingly functions less as power and more as a self laid trap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsMichael Wolff· Guest0:00
I mean, I've said this too often that Trump is a moron, but I'm usually wrong about that, that somehow what he says, people appreciate this Trumpian bluster. But that now is paired with this other stuff that he can't escape. In the war, everybody sees the war. Everybody knows that this is pure incompetence. Everybody sees these people around Trump, and you understand these are his lineup of fools.
Joanna Coles· Host0:28
[percussive music] Michael.
Michael Wolff· Guest0:33
Joanna.
Joanna Coles· Host0:35
Regular observers are going to notice you have a different backdrop.
Michael Wolff· Guest0:40
It's not only a different backdrop, but it's a different continent, a different city. I, I'm in Venice.
Joanna Coles· Host0:46
You're in Venice, Italy?
Michael Wolff· Guest0:48
Yes, with my family. A family vacation.
Joanna Coles· Host0:51
Excellent. Excellent. Well, I-- You deserve a vacation. You are prolific and, um, and we appreciate you talking to us on vacation.
Michael Wolff· Guest1:00
What choice did I have?
Joanna Coles· Host1:02
Uh, well, very limited choice, admittedly, actually. Um, and if, uh, the one thing I should remind people to do is please subscribe to the podcast. The reason that we can bring you these conversations, long, [chuckles] rambling conversations with me and Michael, is, um, and to be fair, usually bringing you pretty good info on what's happening inside the White House and definitely what's happening inside Trump's head. Please subscribe to the podcast. We're an independent media, and this is how