How Trump Is Exposing Own Psychotic State: Wolff

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🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at https://shopify.com/dailybeast with promo code dailybeast. #ad Michael Wolff and Daily Beast executive editor Hugh Dougherty unpack Trump’s chaotic China trip and the increasingly surreal inner workings of his orbit, from Xi Jinping visibly outmaneuvering a diminished Trump on the world stage to the bizarre cast of loyalists, tech billionaires, and media personalities surrounding him abroad. Wolff argues that Trump’s mental decline is no longer possible to ignore, pointing to his overnight Truth Social rants, escalating paranoia, and what aides privately fear is behavior spinning further out of control, while Dougherty details why even major media outlets are finally starting to acknowledge it. The conversation also turns to the growing instability inside the administration itself, including Kash Patel’s mounting controversies at the FBI, RFK Jr.’s increasingly alarming role in public health, and the quiet panic spreading among Trump insiders as scandals, firings, and public humiliations pile up behind the scenes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.9	You can look this up and find the president of the United States continuously saying things
0:48.4	that are out of control, bizarre, unhinged, irrational, that have departed reality.
0:57.1	If this were a family member of literally anybody, anybody's, who stayed up all night and
1:04.6	posted, sometimes in a night, a hundred posts, this kind of wing nut stuff, that would be a mental health crisis.
1:14.8	What do you do of the clear evidence that the President of the United States is behaving in a way
1:22.1	that for anyone else would beg for an intervention?
1:29.8	Hugh, how are you?
1:31.6	Michael, I'm very pleased to be here.
1:34.4	Thank you for having me.
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