The Trump Mental Health Issue We Don't See: Wolff

Inside Trump's Head

The Daily Beast

News, Society & Culture

4.3 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Michael Wolff and Joanna Coles dissect Donald Trump’s declining health as the president heads back to Walter Reed for another physical exam and questions swirl around whether the nearly 80-year-old can physically survive a second term. From Trump’s repeated cognitive tests and mounting exhaustion to behind-the-scenes panic over Iran, Cuba, Marco Rubio, JD Vance, and the future of the MAGA succession fight, the episode spirals through paranoia, power, and the growing sense that the pressure around Trump is finally starting to show. Wolff also reveals extraordinary new details from his legal war with Melania Trump, including how Trump-appointed judges, Boris Epshteyn, and Todd Blanche fit into what he describes as a justice system now reshaped around Trump himself, before Joanna Coles caps things off with the surreal spectacle of Usha Vance’s baffling new children’s web series and the increasingly strange cast orbiting the Trump universe. INCOGNI Deal: To get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan, go to https://incogni.com/beast #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.6	This is not trivial that the President of the United States at the age of 80, overweight, doesn't do a lick of exercise. I think that there is a very decent likelihood
0:43.4	that he will not survive. The man is a mess. The man is a wreck. The presidency is a high-pressure
0:50.9	job. The loneliness must set in probably exactly at the point that Trump is now.
0:57.5	He's facing the midterms. There are going to be a catastrophe for Trump. You think he's going to
1:02.4	he's going to live? I think that there's a very good chance that it just ends all of a sudden
1:08.4	like that. No warning, no preparation, he falls. Michael.
1:18.6	Joanna, here we are again. I'm so happy to be back. We're happy to have you. Good. Well, it's very
1:24.7	nice to be back. And again, just thank you to everybody who sent me
1:29.6	the most interesting and nicest notes of condolence. Really appreciated and just again, just staggering
1:37.3	what people go through on a daily basis. No, and again to remember, you know, and I think it's, it is worth coming back to again and again
1:47.7	and again is that this is something everybody faces, has faced, or will face.
1:55.2	This is the common experience.
1:57.6	Forget Trump.
1:58.6	This is the common experience.
2:00.7	Yeah.
2:36.9	Well, I want to figure out a way of coming back to it at some point, but for now, Donald Trump, but for now. But actually, on to continue a theme here, Donald Trump, who's showing up today at Walter Reed Hospital. Right. The third time in how many months? 13 months, I think. I think. Soon to be 80. June the 13th. 14th. June the 14th. Yes, sorry. Flag day. Flag day. Flag day. Flag day. Flag day. Do you know what flag day is our flag day? No, embarrassingly, I don't actually. Is it,
2:42.8	I don't know what Flag Day is. Nobody, I think nobody, nobody actually knows that there is a flag day,
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