I Know How Melania Found Trump's Creepy BFF: Wolff

Inside Trump's Head

The Daily Beast

News, Society & Culture

4.3 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Michael Wolff and Joanna Coles trace the unraveling inside Donald Trump’s shrinking inner circle as the president turns to disgraced Hollywood director Brett Ratner as his newest confidant amid collapsing poll numbers, growing political panic, and what Wolff describes as a breathtaking $1.8 billion “slush fund” designed to protect Trump and reward loyalists before the walls close in. From Ratner’s sudden return from Hollywood exile through Melania’s documentary, to Trump’s revenge campaigns against Republicans and increasingly erratic foreign policy moves, the episode follows a White House spiraling deeper into grievance, paranoia, and self-interest. Wolff and Coles unpack Trump’s fixation on loyalty over competence and the surreal cast of characters now surrounding him as longtime allies fall away and new opportunists rush in, creating one of the clearest portraits yet of a presidency operating without restraint or even the pretense of normal politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.3	Trains on Uber. Brett Ratner exiled from Hollywood. Melania, the movie rev revives his career, and then Rush Hour 4.
1:14.6	Suddenly, after Melania, the movie, is picked up by Paramount.
1:19.6	So we can say, what has Donald Trump accomplished in office, at the very least, Rush Hour 4?
1:26.6	I wonder if Brett Rattner I had a crush on Melania.
1:30.3	When I was watching the movie, I thought that's what it felt like.
1:33.9	Lingering pictures of Melania smoldering.
1:36.9	It felt like he was sort of enamored of her.
1:40.2	And they have that in common.
1:41.5	They have Melania in common.
1:42.7	I'm not sure that Trump would think of it that way,
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