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Inside Trump's Head

What Trump Aides Whisper About His Cabinet: Wolff

Inside Trump's Head

The Daily Beast

News, Society & Culture

4.3 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Michael Wolff joins Joanna Coles to unpack Melania’s high-profile movie premiere flop and Trump’s crumbling White House operations. As Minneapolis reels under paramilitary forces and DHS overreach, Wolff reveals how Trump’s aides point to the president’s “cabinet of morons” as the root of the administration's flailing incompetence as they scramble to keep him happy and dodge accountability. Meanwhile, the First Lady leverages her office to secure a $40 million documentary deal, sparking questions of corporate bribery. With resignations, lawsuits, and the looming midterms, Wolff and Coles map the power plays, personal agendas, and unraveling strategy behind the headlines. 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

Every pivotal player you can argue in the White House is suboptimal.

0:04.2

Or you might say another way.

0:06.4

Well, these are people who wouldn't get jobs in any other cabinet.

0:08.0

A moron.

0:08.6

Any other cabinet.

0:09.5

People within the White House have said to me here in the moronocracy.

0:13.9

And that's what we're seeing here.

0:15.6

Why did Minneapolis happen?

0:18.0

It happened because these are people who are morons.

0:26.5

Michael.

0:27.8

Joanna.

0:28.5

So nice to have you back in the studio.

0:30.5

We missed it on Tuesday because of the snow.

0:33.4

Well, now it's Thursday.

0:34.8

Now it's Thursday, which means...

0:36.8

Oh, my God.

0:38.0

Yeah.

0:38.4

It is a high point of the second Trump administration, second Trump term,

0:46.1

the premier at the Donald J. Trump Kennedy Center.

0:52.1

Yep.

0:52.6

We now swallow the word Kennedy.

0:54.6

Yeah.

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