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The Daily Beast Podcast

This is Why Trump Can't Shut Up and Listen: Wolff

The Daily Beast Podcast

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4.68.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump doesn’t listen. He doesn’t read. He just talks. On ‘Inside Trump’s Head’, Joanna Coles and Michael Wolff explore why Trump embarks on endless monologues, his Oval Office turned into a bus station, and the “wall of sound” that keeps people out. Wolff shares surreal White House moments, from generals with PowerPoints Trump ignored to phone calls that lasted for hours. The episode also delves into Trump’s unusual routines, Melania’s cryptic note to Putin, and why the mainstream media still struggles to cover the 47th President of the United States competently. What emerges is a portrait of a man stuck in 1965 Rat Pack Vegas, yet still dominating the digital age in 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, we're back, Michael. Say something, please.

0:03.5

Joanna.

0:04.5

Tuesday's episode was just so full. It was Epstein's visit to see Putin.

0:09.1

It was what does Putin have on Trump? Where can we go today?

0:12.1

Except that we promised that we would talk about why Donald Trump can't shut up.

0:17.8

It's a pathology.

0:19.0

Yeah, no, and I think just to emphasize what we're trying to do here, the way people,

0:25.1

the media particularly, continues to talk about Trump as if he is a, you know, a normal person

0:33.9

or at least a normal politician. Politicians

0:37.5

function in certain ways.

0:39.5

It's all about cause and effect.

0:41.4

That's what they do. You can analyze

0:43.5

them on a

0:45.5

through a

0:46.7

very precise window.

0:49.2

Instead of saying, because

0:51.3

you can't say, the New York Times can't

0:53.3

run a headline, you know, Trump,

0:55.9

there's something wrong with him.

0:58.0

Well, actually, it could, but it doesn't because they insist on covering it with a special

1:03.5

formula which is saved for politics and I think makes politics very dull.

1:07.4

Well, it also fails to understand what's going on here. So let's get a, get a, a, a, a, a picture of what

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