Trump Threw Secret Situation Room Tantrum: Wolff

Michael Wolff joins Joanna Coles with a new window into the volatility inside the West Wing, describing what he says was a secret Situation Room tantrum by Donald Trump, a moment when military briefers could not give him the absolute guarantees he demanded, and the meeting spiraled. Wolff connects that flash of anger to the broader pattern he’s reported for years: a president who hates paper trails, avoids email, and warns aides never to “leave a record,” an instinct that now looms large as the Epstein Files fallout engulfs figures like Prince Andrew and Peter Mandelson. Why, Wolff asks, do so many powerful men have receipts—while Trump seems not to? From the chaos-as-cover strategy to the Iran briefings where strength is performative, and doubt is intolerable, this is a portrait of a leader who equates uncertainty with humiliation and reacts accordingly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Word Salad from crazed Ex Brit

i appreciate the fact that someone took the time to tell Joanna to chill out. But if tgis pod cast was her attempt, then it qas a big fail. I know she can conduct a good interview because Iher previous interview with pardon attorney was a deli GG ht. Why does she think that when she interviews Michael Wolff, that she no longer is the interviewER not the interviewEE? I find his opinions vital and she makes Michael swim upstream her sewage laden rants about Barbara Walters, beefs with former UK officials, and all her other ADD tidbits, and Michael cant even finish a thought. im about to quit trying.