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Inside Trump's Head

How Melania’s ‘Doc’ Made Trump’s Chaos Even Worse

Inside Trump's Head

The Daily Beast

News, Society & Culture

4.3696 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Michael Wolff joins Joanna Coles to unpack the Minneapolis ICE shootings that have sent the Oval Office into a frenzy—and exposed the real tripwire in Trumpworld. As Susie Wiles, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and Corey Lewandowski turn on each other in a furious blame game, Wolff reveals why the president is suddenly “wobbling” on immigration, how ICE quotas and untrained agents led to disaster, and why Miller is now dangerously exposed with no bureaucratic buffer left. Looming over it all is a furious First Lady, whose long-planned Melania movie rollout has been eclipsed by bloodshed and scandal—and whose displeasure, Wolff argues, matters more to Trump than polls, politics, or public outrage. 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

This whole week, this was supposed to be the Melania week. I mean, they have spent time in the

0:05.0

White House discussing this. This week was the give to the First Lady. And this means a lot to her.

0:11.7

This Melania, the movie, is her statement.

0:19.4

Michael.

0:21.5

Joanna.

0:22.1

All right.

0:23.0

Let's get into it.

0:27.0

We've been talking, and I know you've been talking to people in the White House.

0:33.6

Let's actually find out what the hell it is going on inside Trump's head in that cavernous space.

0:42.8

You know, enormous amount of, what would you call it, chatter this weekend and quite a bit of Shadenfreude. In brief, let's cut this down. It is the Susie Wiles faction blaming, and blame is a key

0:53.4

thing in the Trump White House because Trump can never accept

0:57.3

blame and there is always someone to blame. The Susie Wiles faction blaming Christy Knoem and

1:06.4

Stephen Miller and Christy Knoome blaming each other. And together with that, and actually maybe over all that, the cloud, over all of that, is a truly pissed off first lady. Minneapolis and these ice shootings, ice out of control, is ruining her week.

1:36.1

Saturday was the first screening of Melania, the movie.

1:42.3

Thursday is the premiere at the Kennedy Center, and all anyone can talk about

1:49.4

is the fiasco in Minneapolis. In other words, they are not talking about Melania, the movie.

1:57.7

Melania, the country's most famous immigrant. Let's unpack the Kremlinology of all this,

2:05.6

because it seemed significant to me that Kristy Noem's team had let it be known that she had asked

2:13.1

for what turned out to be a two-hour meeting with the president.

2:18.2

Right.

2:20.2

That is, of course, not true.

2:24.0

And you can always assume in these things that the opposite is true.

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