Trump's Mental Health Is the Real Emergency: Wolff

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 51 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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0:00.0	How do you find the context for describing that there might be a civil emergency here and now?
0:08.0	The New York Times has to treat the White House, Donald Trump's White House, Donald Trump, the President of the United States, as a reasonable enterprise.
0:16.0	Because if you stop seeing it as a reasonable enterprise, that is a civil emergency.
0:27.3	Michael.
0:28.1	Joanna.
0:28.8	Oh, my goodness.
0:30.7	So much to discuss.
0:32.5	From the 25th Amendment, to Orban, to the Strait of Hormuz, to is Trump God, is he not God and the Pope?
0:42.3	Well, let's maybe begin with the more down to earth. Is Trump crazy? Which I think is suddenly
0:51.3	a open season question.
0:55.0	We know this, that it's open season because the New York Times, which for 10 years has treated him as the President of the United States in New York Times tones.
1:09.0	Are you starting to imitate the New York Times? Well, that's what
1:13.0	everything in the New York Times sounds like makes everything an issue of great significance
1:18.9	and great importance and great gravity, even Donald Trump. I quite like that imitation,
1:26.5	actually. I may not have great gravity, to say the least.
1:29.6	But the Times had a story yesterday, I think, in which they basically openly asked.
1:35.5	And I've been saying for, well, for 10 years now, I've been saying that a proper headline in the New York Times should be president of the United States is crazy.
1:45.5	And they almost got to that yesterday talking about his, in the headline, his erratic behavior.
1:54.0	Now, let's go to erratic behavior.
1:57.4	When the president of the United States is displaying erratic behavior, that would be cause for, shall we say, concern?
2:08.4	It would.
2:09.7	And I think that we have seen clear, I mean, we have seen 10 years of erratic behavior, but I think it is coming
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