Trump is ‘shrieking behind his own eyes’ as MAGA crumbles: insider

A journalist who has written four biographies about President Donald Trump, Michael Wolff, told a podcast on Wednesday that he the president is likely shrieking behind his own eyes as he watches his coalition crumble into dirt.

“It is hard to truly express how bad things are for Donald Trump at this point,” Wolff told the Inside Trump’s Head podcast," … I think that people are hedging their bets because it might be truly that the downfall is dramatically in progress.”

Trump’s recklessness is destroying both individual Republicans and the Republican Party, which has inextricably hitched itself to the president in its push to absorb the MAGA constituency.

But Wolff said Trump “charged into his second term with more aggression and venom than almost any modern president, taking enormous risks without much thought about where they might lead — without any thought, really.”

“Somehow, this combination of arrogance, risk, and narcissism held out; he somehow survives the risks that would destroy anyone else. So instead of adjusting as the midterms approach, he’s doubling down, campaigning as though his own name were on the ballot. As a result, Republicans may be facing their worst results in recent memory,” said Wolff.

But Iran — a war entirely of his own making — is hammering him and his party to pieces, thanks to the insane fuel cost and produce hikes that are coming of it, particularly in rural agriculture areas which rely on diesel for almost the entirely of farm production.

“Of all the political disasters of the second Trump administration, Iran heads the list,” said Wolff. “Trump sold the war as a demonstration of overwhelming American military might. Now the Iranians are targeting American interests, and Trump is onstage talking about Los Angeles and San Diego being attacked. This is a president who was elected promising no more forever wars and went into one without an exit strategy. Instead of finding a way out, he keeps escalating it and keeps putting himself at the center of it.”

Every his every “single policy is now coming back to haunt him,” said Wolff. “… It may be the worst Republican result in recent memory.

The president’s hideous decisions are busting up a coalition the presidential “narcissist” had convinced himself would endure for decades.

“There’s a data point that everybody is looking at that is the Hispanic vote. And that is shaping up to be one of the great political reversals of the Trump era, and maybe of the modern political era,” said Wolff. “It really looked in 2024 that … he had somehow gotten ownership of the Hispanic vote, that it had trended toward him and would continue to trend to ward him and essentially remake the underlying support of the Republican Party.”

Trump’s mind is the kind of brain that convinces itself that a duped victim remains duped for life, according to Wolff. But it turned out the Latino vote was a fleeting thing tied to the economy. That is, until Trump ruined it.

“That may have been one of the things that gave him the confidence to march into his second term and do literally anything he wanted to do. But that vote, all of the indicators say has dramatically reversed itself and is in full retreat from Donald Trump,” said Wolff, adding that Trump has so torn his pants with the Hispanic vote in the whole region that Trump has been asked to butt out of the Flavio Bolsonaro race in Brazil so as not to destroy the candidate’s chances.

“It’s interesting that Trump has kept his head down in the race and not interjected himself in this and the reason for that is the Bolsonaros have said ‘stay out of this,’” Wolff said.

Wolff said Trump is not a complete idiot, so he can see his floor caving out from under him.

“There is this thing about some great characters: They make themselves larger than life because they are crazy,” Wolff said. “Their need for attention overwhelms all else, including their own sanity and their own sense of caution, which makes them self-destructive. The anomaly is not that those people exist but that one has become the president of the United States.”