President Donald Trump, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio attend the UFC 327 event at Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, April 11, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
The White House is in panic mode, left scrambling and unable to figure out solutions to the Iran war crisis on any level, with one former biographer of President Donald Trump revealing that "they literally do not know what to do."
Trump has attempted to claim on numerous occasions that he has already achieved a decisive victory over Iran, in reality, he and his administration are flailing as they have continually failed to find a peaceful, expedient and smooth way to end the conflict that could not be construed as a defeat. Efforts to reach a ceasefire deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz have consistently fallen flat, with signs indicating that Iran has the ability to wait out the U.S. for better terms.
All the while, the conflict is inflicting catastrophic damage on the global economy and driving energy costs to historic levels. These issues have only accelerated voter disdain for Trump's presidency, as prices soar despite his insistence that he has created a new "golden age" economy.
Michael Wolff is a journalist and author with close sources within the Trump White House, best known for his books exposing the chaos behind the scenes of his first term. During the latest episode of his Daily Beast podcast, "Inside Trump's Head," he revealed just how panicked Trump staffers are about their complete inability to get a grip on the Iran conflict.
“Everybody within the White House and within the Trump political team... they don’t know what to do about this,” Wolff explained. “They literally do not know what to do.”
He continued: “They don’t know how to get us out of the war, and they don’t know how to manage this on a political basis.”
During his "most recent discussions with White House people," Wolff heard that despite the doom and gloom pervading the situation, Trump is insisting almost every day that everything is fine and that things are proceeding well. Despite the president's evident delusions, among his staffers, "there’s an acknowledgment this is a problem, but that he’s in denial about it," Wolff confirmed.
"He has gotten himself into a situation he cannot get out of. He’s kind of screwed at this point,” Wolff added. “It is just caught in this vise of not looking forward, of not seeing what might happen, of the kind of hubris that so often accompanies foreign adventures."
Wolff concluded that the Iran war is just one of the endless number of issues that are not going well for Trump, arguing that the time in his first year back, when he seemed untouchable, has ended in striking fashion."
"The run that Trump had... for most of the first year of this administration has now come strikingly to an end,” Wolff said. “The economy, ICE, the war, tariffs, the clowns in the administration that surround him, nothing is going well for them. Literally nothing."