Trump Fury Rattles Aides as Midterm Woes Take Worse Turn: “He’s Angry”

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

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4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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A frustrated Donald Trump is mulling more personnel changes, Politico reports, potentially targeting his Commerce and Labor secretaries. As one official confides: “He’s very angry and he’s going to be moving people.” The Politico piece depicts unnerved aides parsing his fury like tea leaves and disconcertedly leaking to reporters about who’s on “thin ice.” Crucially, Trump is mulling changes that would make him look better on the economy—where a new poll is absolutely brutal—and in hopes of getting them through before a midterm loss makes them harder. Indeed, Time reports that his advisers delivered bad news about internal polling showing that his midterm problems have taken a worse turn due to the war. We talked to New Republic staff writer Kate Aronoff, who writes well about the crises Trump is losing control over. We discuss why real-world complexities are so elusive to Trump and the real meaning of his ongoing collision with the limits of his magical thinking. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.7	Donald Trump is very frustrated over his mounting failures on multiple domestic fronts.
1:23.9	Having fired his Attorney General and Homeland Security Chief, he's now looking at purging more top officials. As one report puts it, he's very angry. Meanwhile, Trump's advisors
1:30.6	are reportedly very worried about the war's deep unpopularity. One senior aide fears he's being
1:36.9	given a rosy picture of how the war is being received and that he's deeply misled as a result.
1:43.6	The throughline to all this is that Trump is bumping up against the limits of his magical thinking,
1:49.0	yet there's no sign of any willingness to adjust.
1:53.1	New Republic staff writer Kate Aronoff has been writing really well about the reality check his policies have received,
1:59.0	so we're talking to her about this weird tension
2:02.0	between this and his refusal to course correct and the real damage it's all doing. Kate,
2:07.9	really nice to have you on. Nice to be back. So Time magazine reports that top White House advisor
2:14.5	Susie Wiles fears that Trump is being fed a bill of goods about the
2:18.4	popularity of the war. She fears it's really hurting GOP chances in the midterms. Trump's pollster
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