Why Thin-Skinned Trump Is Just Like a Teenage Girl: Welch

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🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Jennifer Welch of the hit podcast ‘I’ve Had It’ joins Joanna Coles as the news cycle spins completely out of control—from Don Lemon’s arrest and what Welch calls a chilling test case for silencing independent journalists, to the sudden flood of Epstein files, DOJ lawfare, and Trump’s deep, decades-long vendetta against the press. Welch dissects the masculinity myth at the heart of MAGA, the submissive strongman worship that props it up, and the evangelical culture that looks away from abuse while preaching moral authority. Along the way, Welch connects grift, grievance, and repression into a single operating system powering Trumpism—and asks the question hanging over all of it: If this is Trump’s authoritarian testing phase, what comes next when the guardrails finally give? 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	I often wonder, what does Donald Trump do when he's on his own in his bedroom?
0:04.8	Do you have any thoughts as to how he sort of manages on his own?
0:08.6	I think he's in his bed.
0:10.1	I think he's eating filet of fish, quarter pounders.
0:13.6	There's been reporting that he eats his meals in bed.
0:15.9	I think he psycho tweets on lie social, you know, all of this crazy stuff.
0:22.6	Like he has these crazy delusions.
0:24.6	He started to believe his own propaganda.
0:26.6	I think he sits there like a little junior high school girl with his phone and junk food
0:35.6	and probably talks to whichever sycophant he can get on the phone.
0:39.5	I mean, this is not a deep person.
0:41.7	He's not reading the reports of the next day.
0:44.3	Everything is centered around him.
0:49.9	I'm Joanna Coles.
0:51.1	This is the Daily Beast podcast.
0:52.5	And I don't know where to begin this morning.
0:55.1	There's so much going on. Do we start with the 3 million new Epstein files that are dropping?
1:00.7	And Todd Blanche, number two in the Justice Department, told us about plus 2,000 videos.
1:05.7	Do we start with the Georgia raids that Tulsi Gabbard has overseen of their election files. Do we talk about
1:13.9	how Melania is still furious that her movie has been overshadowed? Do we talk about Don Lemon,
1:20.6	who was arrested on Thursday night? What is going on in this country? Are we just all distracted?
1:26.8	Who knows? But we're going to discuss it all
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