Weak Trump Losing Physical and Mental Grip: Wolff

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🗓️ 30 November 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Michael Wolff joins Joanna Coles to probe Donald Trump’s newest — and perhaps most perilous — level of weakness. From a fraying inner circle to the small, telling humiliations Trump tries to hide, Wolff traces how the former president’s aura of dominance is thinning just as legal threats, foreign crises, and a faltering presidency converge. Wolff walks through how Trump’s allies are suddenly keeping their distance and how MAGA power brokers are beginning to hedge. It all leads to the question that hangs over this episode: has Trump finally reached the point where weakness, not strength, defines his movement?

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0:00.0	I think we're saying a new weakness in his hold on the Republican Party. He looks terrible. Wherever he is mentally, I think we've seen some evident weirdness. The weaknesses we have here are his physical health, his mental health, and then his hold on the party itself.
0:26.9	Michael.
0:28.9	Joanna.
0:30.2	Did you have a good Thanksgiving?
0:32.5	Yeah, I had the same Thanksgiving I've had year in and year out for the over the course of my life.
0:39.6	I don't think that's true, actually. I mean, I've known you through a couple of wives, Michael,
0:44.8	so I'm pretty confident that's not true. The wives change, the children grow older. New
0:51.1	children appear, grandchildren appear, but fundamentally the Thanksgiving stays the same.
0:57.6	The wives change, the children grow older, new children appear.
1:01.3	That literally sounds like the first few lines of a poem.
1:05.6	I'm trying to think who it would be, not William Carlos Williams, possibly Philip Larkin.
1:09.8	Yes, I would say it's of a long
1:12.3	novel. Oh, of a long novel, okay, or the novel of this podcast. Okay, we need to start to remind
1:19.7	people that if anybody is in New York and cares to come and see us live, we will be at the
1:25.4	92nd Street Y on January the 21st. I am told that tickets
1:32.0	are selling fast. So if you would like to come and see us live, feel free. Go to 92ndstreetY.
1:38.3	dot org, I guess, and book your tickets now. Yeah, and I've done the 92nd Street wise quite a number of times.
1:47.4	It's actually a great venue, so we should have a nice evening.
1:51.4	Well, I've done it once, Michael.
1:52.9	I've done it once.
1:53.8	And I loved it.
1:55.1	And I love our live audiences.
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