This Is The Beginning of the End for Trump: Wolff

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🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Michael Wolff joins Joanna Coles to examine the one thing Trump can’t spin: a morning of losses he instantly tries to recast as wins. Wolff brings the voices inside the West Wing, describing Trump pacing between TVs, hunting for a villain, mangling the numbers, and turning Mamdani into his next made-to-order enemy. They cut through the chaos—shutdown brinkmanship, Prop 50 conspiracies, the Cuomo curveball, and a GOP leadership frozen in his glare—to reveal a president who can’t adapt, only blame, and a movement suddenly feeling less inevitable than it claims.

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0:00.0	I would say that the end of Trump could well happen.
0:05.9	That's what happens in American politics.
0:08.7	That's one of the great things in American politics.
0:12.9	Reversals, landslides, things that you would not dream of happening happen.
0:20.1	This has been a been a horrifying year of
0:23.4	Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. But in American politics, that's what happens. This is you think
0:28.6	these people are permanent. Right. And it turns out that they are fleeting.
0:37.3	Michael.
0:39.0	Joanna.
0:39.9	It turns out we are not living in an autocracy after all.
0:44.4	At least for a day.
0:45.9	At least for a day.
0:47.2	But this, I mean, what's going on inside Trump's head after we've got the elections in Virginia, in New Jersey, and of course,
0:56.0	Zora and Mamm Darni in New York City.
0:57.7	Yeah, no, I can tell you, and I was on the phone last night with some White House people who were
1:03.6	not happy campers about this.
1:06.9	And they're not happy campers because they've got to manage Trump.
1:10.0	Exactly.
1:10.4	Yeah, mostly.
1:11.6	I would say that that is, that's the clearest sense of this.
1:17.7	It's not their personal hour movement is being defeated.
1:22.6	It's like, oh, fuck.
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