Something felt different the last forty eight hours. You can sense it when Trump is unraveling, but this time the energy around him is sharper, louder, and more chaotic than anything I have seen in a long while. It is like watching a storm forming in real time.
The push to release the Epstein files lit the fuse. I have never seen Trump react this fast or this aggressively to something he keeps insisting is nothing. His behavior tells a very different story and the tension around it is impossible to ignore.
There is a pressure building around him that feels new. Conversations are happening. People are choosing their words carefully. And you can feel the weight of something closing in even if no one will say it out loud yet.
In this episode I walk you through the tone and the temperature of that shift.
Right in the middle of all of this Trump suddenly turns his attention to nuclear weapons. Not policy talk. Not strategy talk. Something stranger.
Something that made me stop in my tracks and ask what exactly is going on behind the scenes. You will hear the moment it happened.
His comments, his confusion, his urgency, the way he mixes up government departments and demands the impossible, it all paints a picture of a man who is nowhere near grounded. It is not normal behavior from someone who claims everything is under control.
There is a mood around him right now that feels unsettled. You can hear it in the voices of the people trying to explain what he said. You can hear it in the hesitation. You can hear it in the way everyone around him chooses their phrasing like they are stepping around glass.
In this episode I take you inside that atmosphere. The spike in panic. The strange nuclear talk. The rising tension surrounding the Epstein documents. The feeling that something much bigger is happening just under the surface.
This is not a week of normal headlines. This is something else entirely.
If you want to understand the tone of the last two days and why so many people are suddenly uneasy, this is the episode to hear.
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This is a world on man.
This is a world gone man.
SPEAKER_00 (00:08):
This is a world gun mad.
I'm Jeff Allen Wolf.
Welcome to the Friday edition.
This is the part of the weekwhere later on my podcast I
share with you the stories thatmake you pause mid-coffee and
say, You're making that up,Jeff.
I swear on a gold Trump Bible,I'm not.
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He gets crazier and crazier withthese off-beat odd stories.
The segment later on is calledNews from the Edge of Sanity.
I try to put a smile on yourface before you head into your
weekend.
But before I get to thatsegment, let's talk about the
real news stories from the last48 hours, which sometimes rival
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the bizarre ones.
Okay, here we go.
I begin with this level ofabsurdity from Donald the
delusional one, who has nowdecided that the Jeffrey Epstein
case, the same one he oncepretended he barely ever heard
of, has suddenly become the newdemocratic hoax of the week.
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Yes, apparently Epstein nowjoins the long list of hoaxes
that includes Russia,impeachment, indictments,
hurricanes, polls, theConstitution, and gravity
itself.
Donald typed up another tantrumon Truth Social, telling the
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world that he is now orderingAttorney General Pam Bondy to
investigate Epstein's ties toBill Clinton, Larry Summers,
Reed Hoffman, J.P.
Morgan Chase, and apparentlyeveryone except the guy who once
said, and I quote, I knew himlike everybody in Palm Beach
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knew him.
He was a terrific guy.
That guy.
That same guy.
Donald J.
Trump.
Now the panic is real.
You could smell it.
It's like a late night Big Macsweats panic.
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Because what we're watching isthe meltdown of Donald, who is
79 years old, going on 80,suddenly realizing that
releasing everything in theEpstein files might actually
show things he doesn't wantanyone to see.
And now Trump's flailing hisarms around like a wounded
seagull, shrieking thatDemocrats are using the Epstein
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hoax to distract from theshutdown that the Democrats
caused, according to Donald, andevery other horrible thing Trump
imagines in his head rightbefore his bedtime.
And this is where it gets good.
Donald says Democrats are tryingto deflect from their failures.
Meanwhile, Donald's the onecalling emergency meetings in
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the situation room becauseRepublicans, his own party,
refuse to kill the dischargepetition that forces the vote to
release the Epstein files.
Think about that.
Your party is controlled by youuntil the moment transparency
arrives.
Then suddenly they remember thatthey are supposed to act like
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grown adults in a democracy.
Trump tried to convinceRepublicans to block the release
of the files.
They ignored him.
Donald begged.
They ignored him harder.
The petition hit the magicnumber with Grijalva signing it.
And now the vote isn't justcoming.
It is smashing through the doorlike a battering ram.
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And Speaker Mike Johnson isn'tpreparing to schedule anything.
He has to move to an early votebecause he has no choice at all.
He's boxed in.
He's pinned to the wall.
Hundreds of his own GOP membersare jumping ship and saying,
screw it, release the files.
This isn't defection.
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This is a stampede.
This is Republicans tramplingpast Donald while he clings to
the doorway screaming for mommy.
A lot of Republicans don't givea damn.
They want the vote now.
They want the files out.
And they are tired ofbabysitting the world's oldest
toddler with a smartphone.
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Now, this is not a Democraticconspiracy.
This is a Trump panic attack.
And in Trump's panic, he callshis own Republicans soft and
foolish.
You know how bad you have toscrew up to insult the only
people still defending you?
While they're trying to clean upthe mess you're creating every
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five minutes.
This is the political version oftrashing your own living room
and then complaining thateveryone around you looks
annoyed.
A lot of Republicans are done.
They're fed up.
And they're watching Trumpunravel in real time.
Donald is blasting the blastingthe release of the files as
another Russia, Russia, Russiascam, which is hilarious because
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the only thing that connects allthese Donald scandals together
is the exact same responsepattern.
Deny everything, attackeveryone, cry hoax, point a
Democrats, pretend nothing everconnects to him.
And then melt down when thewalls close in.
And those walls are closing inbecause here's the truth these
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files are not about Democrats orRepublicans.
They're about a monstrouscriminal network that preyed on
underage girls for decades whilepowerful men look the other way.
And every decent American shouldwant the full truth out there.
Period, end of sentence.
But Donald can't handle that.
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He is now screaming from hisdigital high chair that he will
personally deploy Pam Bondi andthe Department of Justice and
the FBI because he wants toinvestigate everyone but
himself.
Everyone but Donald, who oncesaid Epstein was a terrific guy.
Everyone except Donald, whosename appears in the social
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circles of Palm Beach, rightalong Epstein for years.
This is not strength, this isfear.
We are watching a man blameeveryone on earth for a scandal
he keeps circling back to like amoth to a blowtorch.
And the more Trump screams hoax,the more obvious it becomes that
he does not want this vote tohappen.
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Which means the vote absolutelyneeds to happen.
Because if Donald the delusionalone is this terrified of the
truth, then the truth must bereally something.
I'm going to say this as clearlyas I can because at some point
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we all have to stop pretendingsomething is very wrong inside
Donald Trump's head.
I don't say that lightly.
Something is not firing right.
A screw is loose, a gear isstripped, a bulb is flickering,
pick your metaphor.
Donald Trump is not tethered toreality.
And this coming story that I'mgoing to say to you right now
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proves it beyond any reasonabledoubt.
Donald already talked aboutdoing this just a week or two
ago.
He floated it, he teased it, hepushed it, and now he's circling
back around again like this issome brilliant idea the world
did not hear the first time.
The story?
Donald, the delusional one, hasnow instructed the government to
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prepare for explosive nucleartesting again.
Real nuclear blasts, actualbombs, not simulations, not
computer modeling.
Actual explosive testing in theyear we are living in.
He keeps circling back to it.
He keeps repeating it.
He keeps pushing it like a manobsessed with detonating
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something.
This is not the 1950s.
This is not Los Alamos and blackand white footage.
This is a 79-year-old man onsocial media yelling at the sky
because Russia is openlybragging about a nuclear-powered
underwater torpedo that Putinsays carries a warhead stronger
than anything in their arsenal.
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China just fired anintercontinental missile not too
long ago with a dummy warheadinto the Pacific while showing
off their full nuclear triad.
So Donald is now panicking thathe does not want the United
States to be the only countrynot testing.
And here's the part that showsyou how mentally detached Trump
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is.
He does not even know who isresponsible for nuclear weapons.
He told the Department ofDefense to start testing.
But the Department of Defensedoes not test nuclear weapons.
The National Nuclear SecurityAdministration does.
And that falls under theDepartment of Energy, not
defense, not the Pentagon, notthe renamed Department of War.
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Trump is shouting orders at thewrong agency, like someone
yelling at a mailbox to makethem a pizza.
Now the Department of Energy hasto have a meeting, a real
meeting, with real scientists,with people who actually
understand nuclear physics.
They have to walk into the WhiteHouse like exhausted parents,
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approaching a toddler withscissors, and say, no, Donald,
we cannot blow up nuclearweapons because you saw
something online.
No, Donald, we cannot igniteunderground test sites.
No, Donald, we cannot restart anuclear arms race because your
brain went on a field tripwithout you.
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright,NNSA Administrator Brandon
Williams, national laboratoryofficials, throw in nuclear
physicists, real experts withreal degrees.
They all have to huddle togetherand prepare to tell the
President of the United Statesthat detonating nuclear weapons
is not tenable, not smart, notsafe, not sane.
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This is where we are.
Grown adults bending overbackwards trying to stop a man
with a loose screw from playingwith atomic matches.
And listen to this.
The White House, instead ofcooling Donald off, is
amplifying him.
They are calling it now theDepartment of War.
Not the Department of Defense,the Department of War.
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They are repeating his fantasylike it is a legitimate policy.
They are saying nothing has beeneliminated.
Everything is on the table.
All decision making lies withthe president.
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if Donald wakes up tomorrow and says, let us fire
one into the desert just to seeif it still works, they are
saying the only thing stoppingTrump is people physically
grabbing his arm.
This is not strategy.
This is not national security.
This is not a strong leaderresponding to global threats.
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This is a man mentally driftingaway from reality.
This is a man who thinks nuclearexplosions are a flex.
This is a man confusinggovernment departments like a
bingo spinner spitting outrandom words.
This is a man who wants torestart nuclear testing because
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of something he misread onsocial media.
And the most disturbing part ofthis, when his own nuclear
experts tell him no, DonaldTrump will call it a hoax.
He will say these people aresoft.
He will say they do notunderstand his genius, the
stable genius.
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Because Trump genuinely believeshis impulses are smarter than
people who build nuclearwarheads for a living.
That is not confidence.
That is not toughness.
That is mental detachment frombasic reality.
When the people who design bombshave to stop the president from
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blowing them up, that is notpolicy.
That is a warning sign, abright, flashing one.
The screws are loose, the gearsare slipping, and the rest of
the world is watching the UnitedStates hold its breath because
one man Donald is mentallywandering into places no stable
leader would ever go.
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And if Trump is this recklesswith imaginary nuclear testing
ideas, imagine what he would doif no one stopped him.
Because this is not politicsanymore.
This is a grown-ass man playingnuclear roulette with an empty
elevator shaft inside his skulland pretending it is genius.
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And the fact that Donald isproud of that thought tells you
everything you need to knowabout how far off the deep end
Donald has drifted.
Speaking of crazy, let me takeyou now to news from the edge of
sanity.
The weird, offbeaten, unusualstories that make you laugh
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sometimes make you wonder why.
Today I have only one story foryou, so I apologize that there
were not more, but I thought I'dshare this with you for your
weekend.
So let me take you to CountyClare, Ireland.
A peaceful place, quiet, green,sheep, maybe you can drink a
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little Guinness.
Not exactly known for junglepredators.
But earlier this month thepolice in County Clare started
getting calls.
Serious calls, not prank calls.
People reporting a creature inthe woods.
A very large creature.
A creature with a golden mane,broad shoulders, and a slow,
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deliberate walk.
The first caller said it lookedlike a lion.
The second caller also saidlion.
The third caller said they sawit crouch behind a bush and they
were sure the lion was stalkingsomething.
Now pictured being the officertaking these calls.
Ireland does not have lions.
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There's no lion of County Clareprogram.
There's no traveling safari thatloses animals along the highway.
Yet here you are being toldthere is a fully grown lion
roaming your backyard like it isauditioning for a nature
documentary.
So the police show up, theyarrive fast, they bring backup.
People are filming, people areposting.
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Neighbors are peeking throughthe blinds like they are
watching the season finality ofPlanet Earth.
Officers move slowly into thetrees, they hear rustling, they
see a huge shape, they see themane.
There are adrenaline spikes.
Someone whispers, there it is.
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Everything comes to a halt.
The officers freeze.
The cameras zoom in.
The world is holding its breath.
Then the creature turns itshead.
And the first officer says themost Irish sentence ever spoken
in a crisis.
Oh, for the love of God, that isnot a lion.
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That is a dog.
A giant Newfoundland dog namedMoose.
With a haircut.
A haircut so dramatic, sotheatrical, that it made this
dog, a big dog, look like it washalfway through filming a
live-action Lion King remake.
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No one asked for.
The owner had trimmed the bodyshort, left the mane enormous,
left the tail tuffed fluffy, andaccidentally created the single
most convincing dog-to-lionoptical illusion in Irish
history.
People were terrified of a dog.
The police almost launched awildlife operation over a dog.
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The entire internet was debatingthe existence of Irish lions
over a dog.
And Moose the Dog had absolutelyno idea.
He's just walking through thewoods, living his best lion
life.
This is what I mean when I saythe planet is now officially in
improv mode.
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Where a simple haircut cantrigger a safari-level panic.
Where an entire town can mistakea Newfoundland dog for a
national emergency, wherereality is one bad grooming
decision away from completechaos.
County Clare thought they had alion.
They actually had moose.
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And moose had the hairdo of acreature that could overthrow a
small village.
That's your news from the Edgeof Sanity, where even the dogs
are method acting.
Hope you enjoyed this episode.
I would like to remind all theWolfpack listeners that I'm
doing live shows on TikTok.
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Tuesdays and Thursday eveningsat 9.15 p.m.
I know some of you on the EastCoast will not be able to
listen.
I also live stream on TikTokSunday morning, 9.30 a.m.
All of those are Arizona times,and we are mountain time right
now.
They're live shows, 40 minuteslong, highly energetic, a lot of
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I hope you, Wolfpack listeners,will join me.
I want to thank Terry, one ofour listeners, for stopping by
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If anyone else from the podcastwas there, I apologize if I
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The room had Republicans inthere, a lot of MAGA people
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So the more people from herefrom this podcast and other
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If you've never used TikTokbefore, here's how you find me
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One, open the TikTok app if youhave it.
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Three, in the search box, typemy handle exactly like this.
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This is a World Gone Mad.
I'm Jeff Allen Wolf.
I will be back Monday.
Until then, Wolfpack listeners,remain skeptical.
Keep focused, but most of all,stay hopeful.
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There is chaos in the world.
And we need to stand up andpreserve our democracy.
This is a world time.
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This is a world time.
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