'Unhinged' Trump 'out of control' and needs an 'intervention': biographer

President Donald Trump looks on during the installation of a new flagpole on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, D.C., June 18, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

President Donald Trump's latest posting binges on Truth Social reveal how much he is "out of control, bizarre, unhinged [and] irrational," according to his one-time biographer, who said that his behavior under most other circumstances would warrant an "intervention."

Extended posting sprees have become a hallmark of Trump's second term in the White House, with many raising alarms about his sleep schedule, as they come during the dead of night. These instances can see Trump sharing dozens of Truth Social posts at a time, many with alarming messages to be seen coming from a sitting president. In a recent posting binge from Monday, for example, Trump shared a post calling former President Barack Obama a "traitor" and calling for his arrest.

Michael Wolff is a longtime reporter and author who has had extensive access to Trump in the past, famously writing a series of tell-all books about the chaos of his first term in office. In the latest episode of his Daily Beast podcast, "Inside Trump's Head," Wolff was unsparing in his take on Trump's posting habit, and what it says about his mental stability.

“Right now, you can look this up and find the president of the United States saying things—regularly saying things, continuously saying things — that are out of control, bizarre, unhinged, irrational, that have in every possible way departed reality,” Wolff said. “How do you react to that? Nobody actually has quite reacted to this. There are no headlines in The New York Times that say, ‘The president of the United States has flipped his lid,’ which in any reasonable, fair-minded reading of what he posts on social media... that’s the conclusion that you would come to.”

He continued later: "If this were a family member of literally anybody, anybody who stayed up all night and posted — sometimes in a night, a hundred posts — this kind of wingnut stuff, that would be a mental health crisis."

The Daily Beast noted, after having "extensively chronicled Trump’s social media posts," an alarming statistic about his recent habits. According to their findings, throughout the entire month of April, there were only five nights in which he posted nothing on Truth Social between the hours of 9 p.m. and 6 a.m., with the rest of the nights seeing him sharing things like "a since-removed depiction of himself as Jesus Christ, more election denialism, and AI slop of a lunar Trump Tower."

“What do you do with a situation in which you have the president of the United States who is openly — without any kind of inhibition whatsoever, in print, in black and white, in his own hand — delivering these statements, which are off the beam constantly?” Wolff continued. “What do you do with the clear evidence that the President of the United States is behaving in a way that for anyone else — your own family members, CEOs of other companies — would beg for an intervention?"

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