Inside Trump's Head

Inside Trump's Head

Character is destiny and no character has defined or deformed the 21st century more than Donald Trump. In this new podcast series, the definitive Trump biographer Michael Wolff joins forces with the Daily Beast’s provocateur-in-chief Joanna Coles to crack open the psyche of the man the world can’t stop watching. Coles and Wolff balance candor with curiosity as they dissect Trump’s thoughts and actions and try to answer the ultimate question: what drives the most powerful man alive? This is the analysis no one else has the access, authority, or ambition to deliver. Ignore it at your peril. New episodes every Wednesday and Friday. If you’re not already a subscriber to The Daily Beast, it’s easy! Just sign up here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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August 15, 2025 28 mins
What really connects Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Prince Andrew? In this explosive episode of Inside Trump’s Head cohosts Joanna Coles and Trump biographer Michael Wolff dive deep into royal biographer Andrew Lownie’s explosive new book, 'Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York'. They unpack the scandals, secrets, and political games linking Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Prince Andrew. From private rivalrie...

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Welcome to the premiere of 'Inside Trump’s Head', a new twice-weekly deep dive from The Daily Beast into the most unpredictable, unsettling, and endlessly fascinating mind in modern politics. Host Joanna Coles teams up with best-selling Trump biographer Michael Wolff to explore what’s really driving Donald Trump. In this inaugural episode, Wolff shares exclusive White House conversations suggesting Trump may be ready to g...

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August 12, 2025 48 secs
The definitive Trump biographer Michael Wolff and the Daily Beast’s unmissable interviewer Joanna Coles combine forces to dive deep into Trump’s secrets and psyche to reveal what drives the most powerful man alive. New episodes every Wednesday and Friday.

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June 11, 2025 11 mins
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May 29, 2025 6 mins
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May 22, 2025 6 mins
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May 15, 2025 8 mins
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May 7, 2025 5 mins
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The Daily Beast's Chief Content Officer Joanna Coles unpacks the two biggest reality shows of our time: Britain's royal family and Donald Trump's presidency. First she lifts the lid on what's really going on in the White House and Mar-a-Lago with the Beast's Executive Editor Hugh Dougherty and finds out who's been voted off the island, who's been pitted in a brutal head-to-head contest and why Warren Buffett just delivered a stingi...

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Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee get the skinny on Donald Trump’s new body and a lot more from legendary White House correspondent April Ryan—who reveals her very painful “manx” theory about the slimmerline leader. And Ryan dives into the jaw-dropping moment her own colleagues confused her with another Black woman who covers Trump, NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor. Joanna and Sam ask left-field California governor candidate Stephen Cloobeck abo...

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CNN star Abby Phillip tells Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee what really happens on CNN Newsnight—the show where angry clashes, shouting matches and even expulsions go viral every night. Phillip spills on whether Scott Jennings is really like that when the cameras stop rolling, names its most-famous viewer and reveals how she gets a word in edgewise. The millennial anchor says whether she watches TV herself and gives her verdict on tu...

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April 17, 2025 63 mins
Joanna Coles and guest host Isaac Mizrahi sit down with Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor who is attempting a huge comeback by running for New York City mayor. They ask tough questions about his resignation over allegations of sexual harassment, his controversial book about Covid and what he will do to clean up the city's subways. And they get him to dish on former brother-in-law RFK Jr., what he really thinks of Donald Tr...

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April 10, 2025 49 mins
Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee get the most incredible inside gossip on White Lotus direct from its executive producer, David Bernad. Daily Beast Senior Entertainment Editor Kevin Fallon joins Joanna and Sam to probe for what really happened in the show which has everyone talking. Bernad spills what really happened on set and reveals exactly how creator Mike White came up with the plot for the hit third season. He also dishes on off...

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April 3, 2025 55 mins
Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee go in front of a live audience at exclusive New York members' club Zero Bond to interview Don Lemon. The CNN-star turned independent media pioneer tells the real story about his firing, what he would do if Trump invited him to Mar-a-Lago and why he can't keep MAGA friends. Joanna spills about her top-secret encounter with the most powerful people in the country and explains why they're "giddy" about Do...

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Comedian Amber Ruffin has entered the chat with Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee—ahead of hosting the White House Correspondents Association Dinner. Ruffin shares how she will pre-game for comedy’s toughest gig and least receptive audience, and the challenge of roasting both sides in D.C. Commentator Steve Hilton discusses his provocative new book “Califailure” about California’s future. And Joanna and Samantha break do...

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Samantha Bee and Joanna Coles float an explosive theory: Is Donald Trump "post-sex?" They break down the incendiary memoir "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former Facebook executive who is lifting the lid on Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. The two relish into Usha Vance's trip with JD to the Kennedy Center. Daily Beast legal columnist Shan Wu breaks down if we're in a constitutional crisis thanks to Trump. And Bea...

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Sam Bee and Joanna Coles wonder just how long Elon Musk could last in the Trump administration. Then, the Daily Beast’s Executive Editor Hugh Dougherty joins the show to catch every one up on the latest in Trumpworld, including “first buddy” Musk. Plus! Iliza Shlesinger talks her “divisive” pants in her latest comedy special and how she got those abs eight months after having a baby.

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Sam Bee jokes she’s the “Chief Content Officer of Lauren Boebert’s spray tan” before diving into Trump’s speech, which Coles calls “magnificent television” but warns he’s entering his “Castro phase” of seven-hour speeches. Bee slams Republicans as “half too dumb to pound sand,” while Coles dubs Usha Vance a “mini clapper.” They torch Meghan Markle’s Netflix show—“It’s an Instagram feed, not a show”—and question sprinkling flowers o...

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Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell All or Nothing, rips open the turmoil behind Trump’s campaign: “They hate each other.” His staff is locked in a ruthless survival game, “all leaking.” Trump was “terrified of dying on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane,” and Melania “doesn’t live with him.” Instead, “she’s cashing in.” He berates his lawyers, “Have you heard of Perry Mason?” Wolff calls his latest strategy “bigger provocations” and ...

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February 20, 2025 63 mins
Jim Acosta (dubbed “major sleazebag” by Trump) is letting loose since leaving CNN, warning, “What we’re seeing is perhaps even more disturbing than the last Trump presidency.” He slams Trump’s pardoning of January 6 rioters as “an act of aggression against democracy” and mocks his alliance with Musk: “Trump hands him the presidency—Musk vacuums up private data, lays off thousands.” Samantha Bee and Joanna Coles debate polyester che...

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