What Trump Aides Whisper About Crazed Racist Post

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🗓️ 8 February 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Michael Wolff and Joanna Coles unravel a week in Trumpworld that veers from grotesque to outright dangerous, starting with Donald Trump’s late-night Truth Social spiral and the racist meme depicting the Obamas that even members of his own party scrambled to disown. They dig into what aides privately describe as Trump “going over the edge,” why the media still struggles to describe these moments honestly, and how this behavior is no longer an exception but the operating system. From there, the conversation turns to Trump’s jaw-dropping demand to rename Penn Station after himself—holding billions in federal infrastructure funding hostage in exchange for another monument to his name—and what that reveals about power, domination, and his obsession with owning physical and psychological space. The episode also explores the next weaponized phase of the Epstein files, Ghislaine Maxwell’s looming testimony, and how conspiracy, grievance, and raw racism are colliding at the center of Trump’s presidency—so is this just another scandal to scroll past, or a warning sign of something far more unstable still to come? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is part of the problem. You can't produce a headline that says the President of the United States went back shit nuts last night.
0:09.0	Well, you'd be writing that every day. You'd be writing that every day.
0:14.0	But in the, you know, and in the official outlets, the New York Times doesn't have the language to say the president had a breakdown last
0:21.9	night. When he clearly has had, clearly something has gone on, something that, and he has reacted
0:29.5	in a way that is beyond reason, which seems to define a breakdown.
0:38.6	In an individual sport, what an honor for her.
0:42.3	There is the vice president, J.D. Vance, and his wife, Oos, those are not.
0:47.5	Those are a lot of booze for him.
0:50.7	Whistling, jeering.
0:52.9	Boo!
0:55.0	Boo! Even though the Olympic Committee told people in the crowd not to boo J.D. Vance, people still booed him and his wife, Usha, as they stood waving their little flags.
1:09.0	I think J.D. could become, maybe is one of the most unpopular people of our time.
1:17.2	Interesting.
1:17.9	There's just something skin crawling about him.
1:22.6	Well, he just did.
1:23.4	I guess his apparent and obvious and profound insincerity.
1:29.5	Yeah.
1:30.1	I mean, the 180 degree swivel from Trump is the new Hitler to Trump is my lord and master,
1:37.3	and I will defend him at all costs.
1:39.5	Yeah, no, I don't think you can recover from that.
1:42.7	I think, well, he recovered to be vice president.
1:48.2	Yeah, but I think.
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