I Know Why Trump's Presidency Is Doomed: Wolff

Inside Trump's Head

The Daily Beast

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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To get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan, go to https://incogni.com/beast Michael Wolff joins Joanna Coles just as the sudden resignation from a top counterterrorism official over the war in Iran exposes cracks inside Trump’s own coalition. With MAGA figures turning on the conflict even as Trump insists he’s “obliterating” Iran’s military capacity, Wolff explains the blunt logic driving Trump’s thinking: If the generals said obliteration was possible, then the mission must be working—even as oil prices threaten to spike, Iran’s regime appears more entrenched, and the president finds himself trapped in the classic dilemma of a war he can neither win nor easily leave. They also unpack Trump’s bizarre insistence that a former U.S. president privately praised his Iran strategy, the quiet power struggles between Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance, Jared Kushner’s expanding influence over Middle East policy, and why the next phase of Trump’s presidency may look familiar: the search for someone—anyone—to blame. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.6	I think things are, the wheels are coming off.
0:32.8	And even before the war in Iran's started, politically, he was in a very complicated position.
0:41.7	Minneapolis, the economy, his own numbers, terrible, sinking, and then the war comes along.
0:47.5	We're going to go from a political crisis to a political catastrophe.
0:51.4	We're getting to the point, because it's the second term,
0:55.1	in which he's not going to be able to recover.
1:02.3	Michael.
1:04.1	Joanna.
1:04.8	Thank goodness you're back.
1:06.8	Even though we spoke relentlessly when you were in London,
1:10.4	I much prefer it when you are this side of the Atlantic.
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