This Is Why the World is Humiliating Trump: Wolff

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🗓️ 21 June 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Michael Wolff and Joanna Coles examine why Donald Trump may have stumbled into a new political reality as European leaders stop trying to placate him and begin pushing back instead. They unpack JD Vance's increasingly complicated role in the White House, whether he's positioning himself as Trump's heir or setting himself up to take the blame, and what his new book reveals about ambition, faith, and political reinvention. They also break down Trump's latest clash with Giorgia Meloni, the arrival of the lavish Qatari jet, the strange psychology behind Trump's obsession with status, and why even something as trivial as a chair at the G7 becomes a window into his mindset. Plus, they explore what Trump's reaction to the Obama Library opening says about the rival world he still can't escape, and why vulgarity—not ideology—may be the key to understanding his enduring appeal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Breaking news. The wait is over now. Waiting for summer? Over. Waiting while charging your electric car?
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0:25.4	Enjoy more.
0:29.5	Up until quite recently, European leaders especially would go that extra mile not to be bothered by this, to contain themselves to hold their own irritation.
0:43.3	I think that's changed, and I think we're seeing this change right now.
0:48.3	I think what we're seeing is in understanding that when Trump comes after you and when you respond with some backbone,
0:59.9	you are the contrast gainer. So the value is now in standing up to Trump, dismissing Trump,
1:08.2	being and taking advantage of his ridiculous meandering free associations.
1:19.4	Michael.
1:20.9	Joanna, how's the weather in Cannes?
1:24.5	The weather in can.
1:26.2	Well, I just got here about an hour ago. It's supposed to be the hottest
1:31.4	June on record in the south of France. I am here for the creative advertising festival,
1:38.6	which I come to every year. Michael, you have been here many years running.
1:43.6	A miserable event, yes.
1:46.4	Is it a miserable event?
1:48.5	I mean, let's...
1:49.1	It is a miserable event.
1:50.3	Filled with miserable people, with often drunken miserable people, a terrible
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