Why Cornered Trump Is Turning On His Own Justices

Inside Trump's Head

The Daily Beast

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🗓️ 22 February 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Michael Wolff and Joanna Coles climb back inside Donald Trump’s mind at the very moment the Supreme Court humiliates him on tariffs—and he responds not with retreat, but with theatrical fury. From calling his own justices “fools” to turning a legal defeat into prime-time spectacle, they unpack how Trump transforms setbacks into legend, why the State of the Union could become a live-wire showdown with Chief Justice John Roberts, and what those colossal presidential banners draped across Washington really signal about dominance and power. Along the way, they dive into the bro-coded videos of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Pete Hegseth, the strange silence from Kash Patel on Epstein, and the unsettling mystery of a disappearance gripping the country—asking whether Trump governs as a president, a performer, or something closer to a monarch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It will no longer be about the Supreme Court basically humiliating him.
0:06.1	It will then be about his theatrics in responding to this.
0:12.0	When you see this guy, it is he wears it all on his sleeve.
0:16.3	I mean, he has done that for.
0:17.3	It was like watching a child yesterday.
0:19.5	For years now.
0:20.2	Absolutely.
0:21.3	No, and it was like, well, I'm going to do tariffs anyway, 10% on all of them. It's like watching a child yesterday. For years now. Absolutely. No.
0:21.6	And it was like, well, I'm going to do tariffs anyway.
0:23.8	10% on all of them.
0:25.0	I mean, it absolutely is the mad queen.
0:28.2	Off with their heads.
0:28.9	Off with their head.
0:29.5	Reduce the political world to boring.
0:32.6	Can't stop watching.
0:34.2	What does that get you?
0:35.5	Well, gets you Donald Trump.
0:42.5	Yeah. watching. What does that get you? Well, gets you Donald Trump. Michael.
0:44.6	Joanna.
0:45.9	Where are we going? It's Saturday morning. Where are we going, Michael?
0:51.3	You know, we're going inside Trump's head. And can we remind people? Do we feel like being
0:59.5	inside Trump's head on this sunny day in the Hamptons? I don't know. Well, we're expecting, I think,
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