Trump's Mental Health Is the Real Emergency: Wolff

Inside Trump's Head

The Daily Beast

News, Society & Culture

4.3 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan at https://incogni.com/beast Michael Wolff joins Joanna Coles to confront the question Washington, and now even the New York Times, is no longer avoiding: What happens when the president’s behavior crosses from chaotic into something far more alarming? As Trump’s erratic outbursts accelerate, from late-night social media rants to bizarre public encounters and escalating threats tied to a war he can’t control, Wolff argues the guardrails may already be gone. Against the backdrop of a faltering economy, a dangerous crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, and mounting pressure ahead of the midterms, Wolff frames what he sees as the defining story right now: The slow eclipse of Trump, and a far more urgent question, whether anyone has the power to act before it’s too late. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.6	How do you find the context for describing that there might be a civil emergency here and now.
0:38.2	The New York Times has to treat the White House, Donald Trump's White House, Donald Trump,
0:42.7	the President of the United States, as a reasonable enterprise.
0:46.8	Because if you stop seeing it as a reasonable enterprise, that is a civil emergency.
0:53.3	Michael. that is a civil emergency.
0:57.7	Michael?
0:58.5	Joanna.
0:59.9	Oh, my goodness.
1:02.5	So much to discuss. From the 25th Amendment to Orban to the Strait of Hormuz, to is Trump God, is he not God, and the Pope?
1:12.8	Well, let's maybe begin with the more down-to-earth.
1:16.9	Is Trump crazy?
1:19.1	Which I think is suddenly a open-season question.
1:25.2	We know this, that it's open season because the New York Times, which for 10
1:30.3	years has treated him as the president of the United States in New York Times tones.
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