Unhinged Truth About Trump’s Iran F-Bomb: Wolff

The New Abnormal

The Daily Beast

News & Politics

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🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Joanna Coles and Michael Wolff are back with a newsflash pod after President Trump dropped an unprecedented F-bomb on the White House lawn. Wolff—the author of 'All or Nothing'—joins Coles to unpack the deeper meaning behind Trump's outburst about Israel and Iran: "They don't know what the f*** they're doing." Wolff reveals how the comment wasn't a gaffe but the latest act in Trump's attempt to script what he calls "the perfect war"—a PR-driven spectacle shaped entirely by headline management, emotional whim, and circular phone calls. Coles and Wolff dissect how Trump has taken personal ownership of a war he likely doesn't intend to finish. With Trump's unkept performance—tie off, hair unruly, language raw it's a revealing look at a president desperate to direct a global conflict like a reality show finale.

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0:00.0	Fancy a fever tree and vodka.
0:03.8	Yes, vodka, not gin, because this is fever tree Mexican lime soda.
0:10.0	Yes, soda, not tonic.
0:12.9	With Mexican lime and Japanese yuzu for a zesty, refreshing lime soda that's just sweet enough.
0:19.6	Delicious with vodka or on its own. Fever tree, Mexican lime soda that's just sweet enough. Delicious with vodka or on its own.
0:23.1	Fever tree Mexican lime soda mix with the best.
0:27.7	Hmm, now that hits the spot.
0:31.8	You know, the people around Trump always speak of his moods as they speak of the weather. What's the weather like?
0:40.0	So you never, ever know.
0:44.2	I'm Joanna Cole's chief content officer of The Daily Beast. This is an emergency pop-up video
0:50.6	because this morning, while I was watching the presidential press conference on the White House lawn in front of a gaggle of journalists as the president was getting ready to leave for the Netherlands, I suddenly heard him drop the F-bomb.
1:04.8	It is not something I've ever heard an American president used before.
1:09.2	He was talking about Israel and Iran, of course, the latest news from the weekend.
1:15.1	And he suddenly said, you know, Israel and Iran have been at this so long.
1:21.2	They don't know what the fuck they're doing.
1:23.1	And I was really taken short.
1:24.5	It felt like a moment.
1:27.0	Who else did I want to talk to about this and what
1:29.4	it actually meant and how calculated it was? Who else but Michael Wolfe, the author of four books
1:35.4	on Donald Trump, including the most recent one, All or Nothing? So we dragged Michael in front of
1:41.6	his bookcase to do a quick 10 minutes decoding of what that F-bom
1:46.7	was really revealing.
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