Why Manic Trump Is in His ‘Crazy Uncle’ Era: Wolff
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🗓️ 26 June 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're seeing an interesting manic depressive display. |
| 0:04.0 | The first year of this term, of this second term, was all mania. |
| 0:10.0 | Moving fast, doing everything possible, doing even more of it, and stunning everybody. |
| 0:18.0 | But then all of that stuff catches up with him, which is where we are now, |
| 0:22.6 | plunging him into the depressive phase of this. Nothing is working. Everybody treats him |
| 0:29.0 | like he's the crazy uncle, which makes him become more agitated in his, in his, in his unhappiness, in his depression is in this sense that |
| 0:42.3 | nothing is going right for him at all. |
| 0:49.3 | Michael. |
| 0:50.3 | Joanna, should I ask, where are you? |
| 0:54.8 | You may ask where I am, and I will tell you, I am so hot. |
| 0:59.4 | I am in Paris, and this is a bit of a rite of passage for me, |
| 1:04.1 | because I'm actually staying with my adult sons, |
| 1:06.9 | first time I've ever stayed with one of my adult children in their apartment. |
| 1:11.9 | Happily, he has very mild air conditioning, but it is so hot. |
| 1:17.1 | It feels, I mean, it feels as if you could butter the air with that delicious French butter. |
| 1:23.4 | It is just so thick and hot. |
| 1:25.6 | I used to live here. |
| 1:26.8 | I don't remember it ever being this hot. |
| 1:29.7 | It's hotter in Paris than it was in the south of France, |
| 1:33.6 | because of course there you've got the breeze. |
| 1:35.3 | There is no breeze here. |
| 1:37.5 | So across apparently London, also everywhere in Europe. |
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