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The Daily Beast Podcast

Ailing Trump Knows His Reign Is Nearly Over: Wolff

The Daily Beast Podcast

The Daily Beast

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4.6 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Michael Wolff joins Joanna Coles as a winter blizzard barrels toward Washington and a political storm gathers inside the White House, where Trump’s second term is no longer defined by dominance but by drift, bad polls, and creeping loss of control. From a Davos appearance that Trump insists was triumphant—but clearly wasn’t—to a rare and dangerous moment of international pushback led by Canada’s Mark Carney and echoed across Europe, Wolff argues the strongman illusion is cracking. The question hanging over it all: Is this just another chaotic chapter—or are we witnessing the first chapter of the end of Trump’s reign? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We have a very good interview with a doctor, a pulmonary specialist who says that the reason he's taking the aspirin dose that he is,

0:07.5

is that's a very standard treatment for someone who's had a stroke.

0:11.1

We're in the middle of a pivotal campaign, conceivably one of the most important campaigns ever waged.

0:19.8

This is potentially in November the end of Donald Trump.

0:29.1

Michael. Joanna.

0:33.9

I mean, all right, what are you hearing from inside the White House?

0:38.2

I know you've been talking to people post-Davos to get the feedback.

0:42.5

I am, but I think we ought to start with the weather,

0:44.7

because this is the only thing that anyone is going to be interested in,

0:49.1

is if this weather, if it produces what they say they are going to do,

0:56.0

it is going to produce, not bl like but a blizzard over much of the country including me although

1:02.5

not you no not me I've scarped I've literally done a Ted Cruz I haven't gone to

1:09.0

Cancun I know Ted Cruz even Ted Cruz is staying put.

1:12.9

I've managed to hop on the last flight out of New York and I'm in Florida for who knows how long.

1:21.7

Who knows if I'll ever come back, Michael? I am here at the beach

1:27.6

waiting to be snowed in, the beach,

1:30.5

the cold beach, not the warm beach.

1:32.7

And I am...

1:33.5

Yeah, and I...

1:35.5

My children are gone.

1:37.1

There's no reason why I can't leave town

1:39.6

for things like this.

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