Why the White House Is Spiraling Over Trump’s War

Inside Trump's Head

The Daily Beast

News, Society & Culture

4.3 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 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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1:00.0	the white house is that on almost on a moment by moment basis people are calling out the price of oil
1:07.5	because that has become one of the significant political measures of the moment.
1:13.6	Again, it is just caught in this vice of not looking forward, of not seeing what might happen.
1:20.6	They don't know what to do about this. They literally do not know what to do.
1:24.6	They don't know how to get us out of the war,
1:28.8	and they don't know how to manage this on a political basis.
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