Why Trump Insiders Fear He's Lost MAGA: Wolff

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🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Michael Wolff and Joanna Coles unpack another dizzying week inside Donald Trump’s orbit, from the strange logic behind his Iran strike to the growing MAGA backlash that’s rattling the White House. As Trump pushes a controversial voting law he believes could secure victory in November, Wolff explains the “reality distortion” at the center of Trump’s decision-making—and why the former president still assumes he’ll get exactly what he wants. Meanwhile, tensions explode inside Trump’s own coalition over war, immigration crackdowns spark political panic among Republicans, and an unexpected primary battle becomes a test of Trump’s grip on the MAGA base. Plus, a rare Melania sighting, Wolff’s unfolding lawsuit drama, and the theory that Trump’s latest moves may be about distracting from the Epstein files. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What I've dedicated my life to is revenge.
0:04.0	A brand new drama based on the best-selling novel.
0:07.0	They think they're better than us.
0:08.0	Who do you think you are?
0:10.0	I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong.
0:11.0	She's punishing me.
0:13.0	You destroyed my family.
0:14.0	I will not rest until I've destroyed yours.
0:17.0	A woman of substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9.
0:20.0	The White House really feels it is at war with the MAGA voices.
0:26.6	Partly it has to do with the Iranian war.
0:29.6	The MAGA position is we are against forever wars.
0:33.6	We're against foreign wars.
0:35.6	America first.
0:36.6	This is what you promised, wasn't it?
0:39.3	Which is what he had promised. The pushback within the White House, I mean, it's really has to do fundamentally with the war.
0:47.3	The MAGA objection to the to the war. That's what everybody is grousing about within the White House. Where are these people?
0:56.3	Why are these people leaving us? Why are they deserting us? What is this pushback?
1:07.3	Michael. Joanna. And when I say Michael, I mean Michael Wolfe, the author of four Trump books and two books on Rupert Murdoch.
1:15.9	Michael, where are we going?
1:17.6	And when I say Joanna, I mean Joanna Coles, who needs no introduction?
1:25.5	Well, I might need introduction today because it's raining outside.
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