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The Daily Beast Podcast

Why Trump's Year From Hell Has Only Just Begun

The Daily Beast Podcast

The Daily Beast

News & Politics

4.67.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The Daily Beast’s must-read columnist David Rothkopf joins Joanna Coles to dissect Trump’s mounting political peril. As dissent grows within his own party—over foreign aid, tariffs, and radical Senate moves—Rothkopf warns that Trump is “staring death,” with his political survival hanging by a thread. This episode explores the stakes of a president confronting resistance from his base and the chilling question: how far will he go to stay relevant?

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0:00.0

That's the other thing that Trump saw.

0:02.8

He saw death.

0:04.8

He saw his own mortality.

0:06.9

He realizes there is no future for him.

0:10.3

The Republican part, he looks in the eyes of Republicans, and he sees they know he's old.

0:15.4

And there is going to come a moment.

0:17.3

And I don't know when that moment is.

0:18.8

Because what Trump cares about more than anything else, even more than money, is being relevant. And it's going to be really, and he's

0:27.1

going to make this desperate play. David Rothcopf is here with us in the studio, which is so

0:35.1

exciting because normally you are on the Potomac, in Potomac.

0:38.4

It's very exciting for me, too,

0:39.6

because I wanted to come and see the billionaires

0:41.3

leaving Manhattan.

0:42.5

Oh, yes.

0:43.1

That's a thing people do know.

0:44.6

Yeah, did you spot them on the way out?

0:46.0

Everybody's sitting at the by the Lincoln Tunnel,

0:48.3

waiting for Bill Ackman to go by.

0:51.0

Come and help him.

0:51.9

Go by with a U-Haul trailer. Where is he going, by the way? Well, they'll all go down to Mar-a-Lago, West Palm Beach. Okay. That's where they go. Where will Elon be? Elon, I don't know. I think he may buy France. Oh, he's going to buy France. Can you can buy a country now? You can, with a trillion dollars? You could get a pretty good-sized country for a trillion dollars. Where would you? In the Caribbean? Oh, that's too down market for him. Right, so he wants Europe. He wants part of Europe. Yeah, no. He wants something that's got a little history. Okay. Italy. Italy would do. Italy would do. I mean, I don't know if you can get all of Italy,

1:32.2

but he could get Sicily. Well, we had a huge response to your column why the Democratic

1:38.5

triumph is only Act 1 of Trump's end. Please explain. Please explain. What's going on? What's happening, David?

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