Biographer exposes how Trump's bottomless ego blinds him to voter hatred

President Donald Trump is continually sabotaging the GOP and his own presidency, according to this one-time biographer, due to how much his endless ego makes him blind to the fact that voters hate the decisions he is making.

Michael Wolff is a veteran author and reporter, best known for his extensive coverage of Trump's life and political career, based on access to the man himself and sources within his inner circle. In the latest episode of his Daily Beast podcast, "Inside Trump's Head," he argued that Trump's relentless campaign to "impose" his will, likeness and beliefs onto the country is backfiring on his badly as it stirs up voter hatred.

“He is doing things... which are fundamentally to his detriment," Wolff said. “What Trump has tried to do is impose himself on virtually every aspect of American life or even... world life. And the problem with that is that if this starts to go wrong, everything then begins to remind everyone that Trump is responsible for this. Everything becomes a negative for Donald Trump.”

Trump most recently experienced this public backlash when he opted to attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals at New York City's Madison Square Garden. When he was shown on the jumbotron during the national anthem, the audience booed him mercilessly, and later that night, he embarrassed himself further by appearing to fall asleep.

The Daily Beast also noted that 51 percent of Americans either strongly or somewhat disapprove of Trump's planned UFC event, which is set to take place on his birthday this weekend and has seen a gaudy 5,000-seat venue built on the grounds of the White House.

“He’s created a set of symbols here that... are going to hurt him rather than help him,” Wolff said. “He shows up at the game in New York and gets booed. He destroys... the White House environment for his own satisfaction and grift.”

“It does feel a little bit like this is all closing in on him,” co-host Joanna Coles added. “At least in that moment when he stormed out of the interview with Kristen Welker on NBC’s Meet the Press.”

“This is literally the way he is with everyone,” Wolff continued. “The people around him — his aides, friends, family, you know, Vance, Rubio, Susie Wiles — everybody faces this: that he won’t stop talking, that you can’t disagree with him, that there really is no debate... Why is he putting the UFC on the White House lawn when that is obviously a mistake of just a political perception that you would not want. But he can’t see that.”