Why the White House Is Spiraling Over Trump’s War

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🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Michael Wolff and Nico Hines, the Daily Beast’s Global Editorial Director, dissect a week where everything around Donald Trump seems to be unraveling at once—starting with the stark cautionary tale of Rudy Giuliani, once “America’s mayor” and now a symbol of what loyalty to Trump can cost, abandoned and politically ruined. From there, they pivot into the escalating crisis with Iran, where Trump’s strategy has left the White House cornered, oil prices surging, and insiders quietly admitting they have no clear way out of a conflict increasingly defined by drone warfare and global instability. The conversation then veers into the surreal overlap of politics and culture, as figures like Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez become unlikely players in Trump’s orbit, turning elite spaces like the Met Gala into symbols of shifting allegiances and reputational risk. Layered on top of it all: brutal new polling showing Trump’s support collapsing—not just with independents, but within his own base—raising the possibility that the very forces that once made him untouchable are now eroding in real time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some follow the noise.
0:03.3	Bloomberg follows the money.
0:05.4	Because behind every headline is a bottom line.
0:09.3	Whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings,
0:13.8	there's a money side to every story.
0:16.5	And when you see the money side, you understand what others miss.
0:20.9	Get the money side of the story.
0:22.9	Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com.
0:27.4	One of the things that's now happening in the White House is that on almost on a moment-by-mom basis,
0:34.4	people are calling out the price of oil because that has become one of the
0:39.6	significant political measures of the moment. Again, it is just caught in this
0:46.2	vice of not looking forward, of not seeing what might happen. They don't know
0:51.4	what to do about this. They literally do not know what to do.
0:55.0	They don't know how to get us out of the war, and they don't know how to manage this on a political basis.
1:03.0	Hi, I'm Michael Wolfe, and I am not here with Joanna Coles, who is in Yorkshire, in England,
1:15.6	tending to her mother who is ill, and we had some technical difficulties today.
1:23.4	So we have drafted Nico Hines, who has a title at The Daily Beast, a very high title, a very complicated title.
1:32.9	But Nico coordinates most of the international news at the Beast.
1:39.1	So he has been drafted to sit in for Joanna.
1:43.2	So we're going to ad lib much of this show, but actually we're always ad libing much of
1:52.5	this show.
1:53.0	But Nico, thank you for doing this.
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