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The Daily Beast Podcast

How The Trump-Musk Bromance Ends: Michael Wolff

The Daily Beast Podcast

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4.6 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Journalist and author Michael Wolff joins Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee on this week’s episode to offer insight into the jockeying egos on Donald’s Trump “manic” campaign—and that MSG rally. New Jersey Senator Cory Booker calls in from the Harris trail, and Daily Beast Special Correspondent Harry Lambert recaps party animal Jeff Bezos’ social calendar amid much turmoil at his newspaper, The Washington Post. Have a question or comment for us? Send us an email: beastpod@thedailybeast.com 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

Hey, just pop it in to share an excerpt from the newest episode of the Daily Beast podcast hosted by our chief creative and content officer Joanna Coles and late night legend Samantha B.

0:10.5

We're now joined by our Beast of the Week, Michael Wolf. Michael is a fiercely

0:16.2

provocative journalist and best-selling author. He's known for his

0:19.2

extraordinarily deep dives into the worlds of power and politics and his books Fire and Fury

0:24.7

the Siege, Landslide and the Fool didn't just report stories they triggered

0:30.8

firestorms exposing inner dramas from Trump's White House to the Murdoch

0:35.6

Empire. Love him or hate him. Michael Wolf captures the essence of Power's most polarizing

0:42.4

players and he's always

0:43.7

unapologetically bold and unfiltered. Sometimes I apologize. I've never heard

0:49.4

you apologize. I don't think that's true apart from maybe one of our feuds was over.

0:54.4

Sam to be a friend of Michael is to have feuds with Michael.

0:58.3

We've had a couple of feuds but we're on speakers right now.

1:01.3

That's wonderful.

1:02.3

Which is good because I want to know what the

1:03.7

hell is going on inside the Trump campaign. Yes, what's the feeling over

1:08.1

there? Well I think it literally shifts moment to moment. it's not that different from the feeling outside of the Trump camp.

1:16.4

I mean, I think that they're euphoric and they think that they're going to win at a given

1:22.0

moment and then they plunge into despair and think that they're that they're going to lose. I mean, they are in the same position that everyone else is. They know absolutely nothing, which is really rare for a presidential campaign.

1:35.0

I mean people inside presidential campaigns even if they're wrong

1:40.0

tend to have a very clear view of what's going on.

1:43.6

I mean, it's almost their craft.

1:46.3

We know, nobody knows.

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