The Trump Mental Health Issue We Don’t See: Wolff | Inside Trump’s Head
Michael Wolff and Joanna Coles dissect Donald Trump’s declining health as the president heads back to Walter Reed for another physical exam and questions swirl around whether the nearly 80-year-old can physically survive a second term. From Trump’s repeated cognitive tests and mounting exhaustion to behind-the-scenes panic over Iran, Cuba, Marco Rubio, JD Vance, and the future of the MAGA succession fight, the episode spirals through paranoia, power, and the growing sense that the pressure around Trump is finally starting to show. Wolff also reveals extraordinary new details from his legal war with Melania Trump, including how Trump-appointed judges, Boris Epshteyn, and Todd Blanche fit into what he describes as a justice system now reshaped around Trump himself, before Joanna Coles caps things off with the surreal spectacle of Usha Vance’s baffling new children’s web series and the increasingly strange cast orbiting the Trump universe.
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00:00 Trump’s Health Crisis and Walter Reed Visit
04:43 UFC at the White House and Trump’s Birthday Spectacle
09:01 Will Trump Survive His Presidency?
14:08 Scenarios for Trump Collapsing in Office
19:03 Iran Negotiations Spiral Into Political Disaster
23:10 Trump’s Cuba Obsession and Casino Empire Fantasy
27:28 Michael Wolff’s Melania Trump Lawsuit Explained
32:03 Where Melania Really Lives and the Federal Court Fight
36:36 Trump Judges, Judicial Power, and Fear Inside the Courts
41:05 The Political Succession Battle Between JD Vance and Marco Rubio
45:18 Trump’s Inner Circle Starts Positioning for 2028
📖 Title: The Trump Mental Health Issue We Don’t See: Wolff
👂 Podcast: Inside Trump’s Head
📺 Episode: 117
🎧 Format: Full Podcast
📅 Date: May 26, 2026
🎙️ Hosts: Joanna Coles, Michael Wolff
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32 Comments
At Walter Reed, while he blustered and bled,
The successionists measured his head;
With Melania’s writ,
And Judge MAGA’s fit,
They crowned Usha’s web-show instead.
Trump will not remain in office for his full term. And I think he's bored with it anyway!!!
No. 7 ~~ YAY! Joanna's back home in America!
Hope the jet lag is gone, Joanna!
Lov ya in Sactown! Glad you are back back back!
Has there ever been a prophet who proved to be falser?
He’s ridiculous; he’s ludicrous; he’s a blight; he’s an ulcer.
He says, “Forget all about those sky-high gas prices!
Lack of a ballroom is our one and only true national crisis”,
As if all our problems would be solved if just he had somewhere to salsa.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I miss Hugh already!
BLOTUS is on Fool Decay …. !!!
WHAT DO ME WE DONT SEE IT?!
OMG cult 😮 crazy atheist dictator white supremacists morally bankrupt nuclear weapons millions deaths casualties debt monopoly $-350+T netanyahu puppet
He cray. 😂
Will they mention Wolff’s case against Melanie being tossed out?
Welcome back Joanna! 😊
Happy to see you ms Joanna 💜😎
Good to see Joanna back… 😊
Someone tell Michael he starts every sentence with "no". And every response with "no", often followed immediately by "yes".
Joannaaaaaaa 🤗.
Here for the tea … and Joanna’s blazer game.
Intelligent reports can be slighted. But its either madness or balance for all.
TY! 🤗
Hello Joanna. Good to see you back
If,If Americans would remove their heads from their asses and would have elected a woman of color instead of a 100 percent dyed in the wool fuck head-don trump the world would be in a much better position to deal with this crisis, but Americans would prefer to watch a sport event then think were we are headed as a country we and the world would not be up shits creek without a paddle
Everybody wears a poppy in Canada. I do believe that we started the tradition. 🇨🇦
Veterans in the US also give out poppies for a donation.
Trumps funeral should be honoured sorta in the same way,as Guy Fawkes annually What a way to keep his name alive
Welcome back Joanna ❤
Sooooo happy to see you, Joanna, in the same room as Michael. Welcome back 💖💕💖
Poppies. "In Flanders Fields the poppies grow" . . . . . a poem written by Canadian physician and Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. Please, look it up.
uFC and Trumpy making arena ring is he showing that he as definitely turned into The Caligula in Chief!
Thank you so much for openly discussing the mortality issues in such a matter of fact way. I also do not see him getting through the presidency. He is so impaired.
No due to bad will from the many he hurts!
Glad to see you Joanna. Trump is not dead yet in case nobody told you 😐